Stewart Home was born in South London in 1962 and currently lives in East London. He is the author of twenty-one books, including the novels Slow Death, Blow Job, Come Before Christ & Murder Love, and Down & Out in Shoredtich and Hoxton, all of which might be considered twisted love letters to his home town of London.
Patrick Mccabe was born in 1955. His novels include Carn, The Butcher Boy, The Dead School, and Breakfast on Pluto. He has written for stage and screen and has just finished a new novel, Winterwood. He lives in Sligo, Ireland.
Joe McNally is a journalist and photographer who has lived in London for ten years. He has worked on publications as diverse as Fortean Times and Take a Break. This is his first published fiction.
Mark Pilkington edits and publishes Strange Attractor Journal and has written for the Guardian, Fortean Times, Plan B, Arthur, and others. He is currently working on a feature documentary film and performs with experimental musical outfits including Raagnagrok, Stella Maris Drone Orchestra, and Disinformation. More info at www.strangeattractor.co.uk.
Sylvie Simmons, one the best-known names in rock writing, was born and raised in North London. She is the author of Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes, the book J.G. Ballard declared his favorite of 2001. These days she writes for MOJO and the Guardian. Her latest book is the short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy, and her latest address is San Francisco.
Jerry Sykes has twice won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Short Story Dagger. His stories have appeared in various publications on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as in Italy and Japan. He was born and raised in Yorkshire, but has lived in London for over twenty years. His first novel will be published in Fall 2006.
Cathi Unsworth moved to Ladbroke Grove in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with Sounds and Melody Maker, before coediting the arts journal Purr and then Bizarre magazine. Her first novel, The Not Knowing, was published by Serpent’s Tail in August 2005.
Martyn Waites was born and brought up in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the northeast of England, but once he was able to make his own mind up about where he lived, moved to London. He now lives in East London, and his latest book is The Mercy Seat.
Michael Ward was born in Vancouver in 1967 and grew up in Toronto before moving to Hull, East Yorkshire when he was eleven. He briefly studied philosophy at Leicester University and moved to London in 1987, where he soon gave up a promising career sorting mail for the British Council to play in a band. A chance meeting in a pub led him into journalism, a field in which he has worked as a freelancer since 1997. He lives in Notting Hill.
John Williams was born in Cardiff in 1961. He wrote a punk fanzine and played in bands before moving to London and becoming a journalist, writing for everyone from the Face to the Financial Times. He published his first book, Into the Badlands, in 1991, and his next, Bloody Valentine, in 1994. Following a subsequent libel action from the police, he turned to fiction and has now written five novels, including the London-set Faithless.