The Colour of Hope

Ross MacKenzie is an award-winning Scottish children's author whose book The Nowhere Emporium (2018) was the winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2016 and the Blue Peter Book Award 2016. To date there are two more books in the series, The Elsewhere Emporium and The Otherwhere Emporium. He has also written books in a new series including Evernight and Feast of the Evernight. His latest book is The Uninvited (2025). MacKenzie lives near Glasgow with his wife, daughters and their cocker spaniel, though he spends much of his spare time in another world.

Glen McCready is a British actor known for his work on Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures: Fright of the Bumblebees, Casanova’s Last Stand and Ceville. He is also a voice actor with an impressive audiobook portfolio and a three-time winner of Audiofile Magazine’s Earphones Award. He has performed in many of Ben Elton’s books: Blind Faith, Chart Throb and The First Casualty, as well as The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Glen McCready was trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and is also a presenter and coach.