Timothée de Fombelle is a much-admired French playwright, as well as the author of award-winning fiction. His first series, Toby Alone and Toby Alone and the Secrets of the Tree has been published in 27 languages and has won numerous awards including France’s prestigious Prix Sorcières and the Marsh Award. Timothée's adventure series, Vango, Book One: Between Sky and Earth and Vango, Book Two: A Prince Without a Kingdom received huge critical acclaim, and book one was granted an English Pen Award for translation. Timothée's beautiful story, Captain Rosalie, was first featured in the acclaimed collection The Great War: an Anthology of Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War.Thomas Campi is an award-winning Italian illustrator, who has been making comics and graphic novels for over twenty years. Widely published internationally, his work has been exhibited at the Comic Strip Center in Brussels. He is a two-time winner of the Cognito Prize for Best Documentary Graphic Novel.

This Christmas story, about a swallow who sets out from Africa, a lonely man and a disenchanted driver, has themes of loneliness, immigration and the power of companionship.