Anthony Gardner is an Irish author and journalist based in London. He was the founding editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, has written for a wide variety of publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, the Irish Times and The Economist, and is the former deputy editor of Harpers & Queen.

He is the author of two previous novels – The Rivers of Heaven and Fox – and two collections of poetry, The Pool and Other Poems and The Moss in Lanthwaite Wood (longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize).