Tade Thompson is the author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed Rosewater, the first in his award-winning Wormwood Trilogy. Others include The Murders of Molly Southborn, Making Wolf, Far From the Light of Heaven, The Apologists, and Jackdaw.

He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle award, and the Julia Verlange award, and been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the Shirley Jackson Prize, among others. Many of his titles are currently in development for film and TV adaptation. Born in London to Yoruba parents, he lives and works on the south coast of England where he battles an addiction to books.