Christopher Priest is the author of 18 novels, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and World Fantasy Award winner The Prestige, which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film of the same name, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johannsson and David Bowie.

His prolific career in the half-century since publication of his first novel saw him named among the inaugural Granta Best Young British Novelists, alongside Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Pat Barker and Martin Amis. His journalism and reviews have appeared in The Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the TLS, the Washington Post and many more.

In 2017 he was the keynote speaker for the J. G. Ballard & The Sciences Conference at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

He died in 2024, aged 80 years, leaving behind his partner, the novelist and critic Nina Allen.

Nina Allan is a novelist and critic. Her work has previously won the British Science Fiction Award and the Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire, and been shortlisted for the Hugo Award and the Prix Femina Etranger. In 2018 she was named one of the Guardian's Fresh Voices: 50 Writers You Should Read Now. Her most recent novel is A Granite Silence, a creative investigation of a historical murder case. Nina first met Christopher Priest in 2004. The two began living together in 2011, and talked incessantly of writers and writing for the next 13 years. Unsurprisingly, one of the names that cropped up most frequently was that of J.G. Ballard.