The World to Come - World to Come – A Times Book of the Year 2024

About the Author

Johnny Flynn is an award winning and critically acclaimed actor and musician who has worked extensively across film, television and theatre. 'A World to Come' is from his album, co-written with Robert Macfarlane, Lost in the Cedar Wood, which reached number 2 in the UK Independent Albums chart.

Robert Macfarlane is the author of prize-winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including The Lost Words: A Spell Book (with the artist Jackie Morris, 2017) and Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019). His work has been translated into many languages, won prizes around the world, and his books have been widely adapted for film, television, stage and radio. He has collaborated with artists, film-makers, actors, photographers and musicians, including Hauschka, Willem Dafoe, Karine Polwart and Stanley Donwood. In 2017 he was awarded the EM Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Raised in the iconic North Yorkshire countryside, Emily Sutton has become a true icon of modern day illustration. Emily has collaborated with the likes of Paddington creator Michael Bond, Jessie Burton and Kate Morton and been nominated for and won numerous prestigious awards including the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals.