David Almond is the highly acclaimed author of Skellig, Clay, My Name is Mina, My Dad’s a Birdman, The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas and many other novels, short stories and plays. His books have been translated into almost forty languages and are widely adapted for the stage and screen. His numerous awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Children’s Books Awards and Le Prix Sorciéres, and in 2010 he gained the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international prize for children’s authors. www.davidalmond.comDave McKean is an award-winning artist and film director whose work spans drawing, painting, photography, collage, digital art and sculpture. His books for children include The Savage, Slog’s Dad and Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond, all of which were shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award, and S.F. Said’s Varjak Paw, Outlaw Varjak Paw, Phoenix and Tyger. For adults he has illustrated novels by Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, and Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck Cookbook. Dave lives in Kent. www.davemckean.com

“Strangeness also saturates David Almond’s graphic-novel collaboration with Dave McKean Blurring the boundaries between text and image, child and adult, life and afterlife, Almond and McKean create a sense of the meeting point between the human and sublime.”