Two Terrible Vikings and Grunt the Berserker

Francesca Simon spent her childhood on the beach in California, and started writing stories from the age of eight. She then went to Yale and Oxford Universities to study medieval history and literature. She threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US).

Adrian Edmondson is an English comedian, actor, musician and television presenter. He is best known for his roles in BBC's The Comedy Strip Presents... and The Young Ones, and has since then appeared in dramas Holby City, Surviving Disaster, Prey and War & Peace. Adrian is also a keen narrator, lending his voice to several titles in Shaun Usher's Letters of Note series and narrating two of his own children's books, Tilly and the Time Machine and Junkyard Jack and the Horse that Talked.