Tony White is the author of six previous novels including The Fountain in the Forest and Foxy-T (both Faber & Faber) and Shackleton's Man Goes South (the first novel ever published by the Science Museum).

A former writer in residence at the Science Museum, he has reviewed for the Guardian, The Idler and Irish Times. He is currently a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund attached to Royal Holloway University of London, and an Associate Lecturer on the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck. He is a member of the Crime Writers' Association.