Granta: Best of Young British Novelists #5

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Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire’s gang culture. He was inspired to study English Literature following his reading of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting at just sixteen. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he defied expectation to read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where, after graduating with honours, he returned to study a Masters’ in Creative Writing. His debut novel, The Young Team is inspired by his experiences.

Alex Wingfield is an actor and musician with bases in London and Leeds. Alex completed the Musical Theatre postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Music. He has worked in a variety of fields, including audiobook narration, dubbing, ADR, educational voiceovers, commercial, games and animation. He specialises in narrating books aimed at a younger audience. His audiobooks include The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn and the Letters of Enchantment series by Rebecca Ross.

Emily Barber grew up in England and worked extensively with the National Youth Music Theatre before training in Acting at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Emily won Best Newcomer at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her stage debut in ‘Billy Liar’ at the Royal Exchange. Her many theatre credits include ‘Cymbeline’, 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'Boys Will be Boys', 'Cost of Living' and most recently the lead in 'Love All'. Her TV credits include ‘Bridgerton’, ‘The Angel of Darkness’, 'Call the Midwife', 'The Royals' and 'Endeavour'. She’s recorded numerous audiobooks and radio dramas over the last few years.

Kate Winter is an Australian actor, writer and producer. A graduate of Actors Centre Australia, she has worked extensively in the United Kingdom across stage and screen, including award-winning work with RedBellyBlack Theatre and appearances in Netflix productions The Witcher and The Gentlemen. She voiced Lena in video game The Alters for 11bit Studios and completed narration on the audiobook The Wedding Forecast by Nina Kenwood.

Jude Owusu is a UK stage and screen actor. His TV roles include Father Brown, Holby City, The Hollow Crown: Wars of the Roses – Richard III and The Bill. On stage, Jude notably appeared as Tom Robinson in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird.