JIMMY JEAN–LOUIS is better known for his mystic character, the Haitian, on the hit TV show Heroes. Born in Haiti, Jimmy began a career in modelling gracing the pages of Vogue and GQ among others, before the acting bug caught him. Jimmy’s credits include appearing opposite Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez in Monster-in-law, Harrison Ford in Hollywood Homicide, Bruce Willis in Tears of the sun, and Derailed with Jean-Claude Van Damme. He recently completed four movies: Loaded with Jesse Metcalfe; The Adventures of Power with Adrian Grenier, The Diary of a Tired Black Man and The Penthouse. For more info visit: www.jimmyjeanlouis.com

GAUTAM MALKANI was born in London in 1976 and has been a journalist for the Financial Times since 1997. His work has also appeared in the New York Times and Prospect magazine. His first novel, Londonstani, is based on his university dissertation about the invention and performance of ethnic, class and gender identities among middle-class, wannabe rudeboys in West London.

EMMA GOLD is the author of two Sex & The City style novels, Easy and Hard. Easy reached the bestseller lists and was featured under The Times ‘Fresh Talent’ section. It also prompted a record number of calls on Radio 4’s ‘Open Book’. As a prolific sex writer, Emma has also tantalised readers for two years with a Sexploits column in the UK’s leading newspaper, the Independent on Sunday. Currently she writes features for Cosmopolitan, GQ, Junior and Real.