FRANCESCA TYER

Like most writers, I enjoyed writing at school, then other things got in the way. I always wanted to write but never found the headspace. I was travelling a lot to LA and, after a while the novelty of flying and the movies wore ff, so I used the 12 hour flight times to write. And when Covid hit, I had even more time.

Coralie Bickford-Smith is celebrated the world over for her stunning Clothbound covers.

One of the most important things for me is memory, because I think that people slowly forget what happened in Syria and they mix-up all the facts.