Nick Harkaway is the author of three novels (The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, and Tigerman), a small amount of short fiction, and the website copy for a now-defunct boutique selling burlesque lingerie. He was born in Cornwall in the seventies and retains a love of corduroy and oil paint. He was at one time the world's least talented martial artist, likes red wine and hates shellfish—though of course not on a personal level. For many years he longed to appear brooding, Byronic, and saturnine, but has now recognized that it will never happen.