Bad Buster

Sofie Laguna is an award-winning Australian author of adult and children's fiction. Her second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep, won the 2015 Miles Franklin Award, was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin International Book Award and shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her third adult novel, The Choke, won the 2018 Indie Award in the Best Novel category, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards, the Voss Award, the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal, and longlisted for the Stella Award, the Kibble Award, the Colin Roderick Literary Award and the IMPAC Dublin International Book Award. Another novel for adults, Infinite Splendours, won the 2021 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award and the HT Priestley Medal, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Indie Award and the Australian Book Industry Awards. Laguna's children's books have been named Honour Books and Notable Books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Awards. Her picture book with Andrew McLean, On Our Way to the Beach, was included in the White Ravens 2005 annual selection of outstanding international children's books by the International Youth Library (Associated Project of UNESCO). Her latest novel for adults is The Underworld (2025).

Rebecca Macauley is an award-winning narrator. She has appeared in various television series, including international hit Neighbours and Australian drama Blue Heelers. Her work includes the US feature film Darkness Falls and the children's television series Wicked Science. Rebecca has previously narrated Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta and Ursula Dubosarsky's Abyssinia.