Rob Howell is the head chef at Root, a veg-centric restaurant housed in two shipping containers which opened in Bristol's Wapping Wharf in 2017. Rob was previously head chef at Josh Eagleton's award-winning pub, The Pony & Trap, winning a Michelin star in 2011. Previously he worked at Ondine in Edinburgh and Goodfellows in Wells, as well as completing stages at Studio in Copenhagen, Elystan Street in London under Phil Howard and at Restaurant Nathan Outlaw in Port Isaac.

DAVID WEBER is the most popular living author of military science fiction.

Aside from the Safehold series beginning with Off Armageddon Reef, he is also known for the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series, the most recent of which was Uncompromising Honor.

He lives in South Carolina.