One of the most acclaimed and original children's authors writing today, has won numerous prizes, most recently Guardian Fiction Prize with Darkling Plain 2006 For both younger AND older readers of his Mortal Engines books - sumptuously designed and illustrated with razor-sharp humour for all ages Unbelievably imaginative and winning combination of adventure, space travel and literary wit Stunning reviews for Larklight, 30,000 copies of the hardback sold in first three months of publication

Philip Reeve was born and grew up in Brighton. He worked in a bookshop there and on various other projects before starting a career as an illustrator. Although he has been writing stories since he was very young, Mortal Engines was the first to be published - and to incredible critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for The Whitbread Children's Book Award and was awarded the GOLD Nestle Smarties Book Prize as well as being named The Blue Peter Book of the Year 2003. Philip lives in Devon with this wife and son. Illustrator David Wyatt has worked on many beautiful covers for authors, including Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne-Jones, Alan Garner and JRR Tolkien. He lives in an ancient house in a graveyard in Devon, and is a keen lutist, cyclist and wanderer of the moors.