Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling "Headlong", which was a "New York Times" Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and "Spies", which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, "My Father's Fortune", and fifteen plays, among them "Noises Off" and "Copenhagen", which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London.

Jeffrey Archer is one of the world s best-selling writers, having sold over 120 million copies of his novels and short stories world-wide. He is a former member of Parliament and currently a member of the British House of Lords. He lives in London and Cambridge with his wife, Mary.

Martin Jarvis career ranges from award-winning London theatre productions of Ayckbourn, Pinter and Wilde to Murder, She Wrote and James Cameron s Titanic in the U.S. He has twice received the British Talkies Award.