MATT BLAKE

Matt Blake is an award-winning journalist, writing for The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Grazia, Esquire and Men’s Health, and former crime reporter for The Daily Mirror and The Independent. During his journalism career, he has unwittingly interviewed a murderer in his own front room, been offered a kneecapping by a London gangster and was chased from a crack den in Brixton by dogs.

His story House of Horror, which appeared in The Guardian and formed the basis of Hearth of Darkness, proved an international success, garnering more than half a million reads in its first week of publication alone. Hearth of Darkness is his first book.