Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than eighty technical papers and ten books, including A New Science of Life. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in cell biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society.

From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He is married, has two sons and lives in London.

Kate Banks is the author of many acclaimed books for children, including The Night Worker, Charlotte Zolotow Award winner, and And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for picture books.

Some of her best-loved titles include Max's Words, illustrated by Boris Kulikov, called "imaginative" in a starred review from School Library Journal; The Bear in the Book, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben, called "enchanting" by the Wall Street Journal; City Cat, illustrated by Lauren Castillo; and many more.