Spring Flowers, Autumn Moon

Jiann I. Lin was born in 1940 in Taipei, Taiwan and became interested in reading, history, and classical Chinese literature in middle school. He received BA in English from National Taiwan University-Taipei. In 1963 he arrived in the U.S. for graduate studies (MA in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MLS in Library Science, State University of New York at Albany). He served for 38 years in the Oberlin College Library East Asian Collection and is an Emeritus East Asian Specialist Librarian.

East Yorkshire-born David Young began his East German-set crime series on a creative writing MA at London's City University when Stasi Child - his debut - won the course prize. The novel went on to win the 2016 CWA Historical Dagger, and both it and the 2017 follow-up, Stasi Wolf, were longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. His novels have been sold in eleven territories round the world. Before becoming a full-time author, David was a senior journalist with the BBC's international radio and TV newsrooms for more than 25 years. He writes in his Twickenham garden shed and in a caravan on the Isle of Wight. The Stasi Game, his sixth novel, is available to pre-order now. You can follow him on Twitter @djy_writer