Mark Blacklock is a novelist, journalist, investigator and academic. His novels I’m Jack and Hinton were published by Granta; Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. As a journalist he has written for the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph, the Fence, Granta, Unherd and the LRB. His investigations include the Guardian’s coverage of Nigel Farage’s schoolboy racism, described by Farage’s biographer as the greatest scandal of his political career, and a multi-part exposé of Queen Ethelburga’s independent school, which contributed to the Secretary of State for Education banning its owner from running schools. He is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College and co-editor of Offal, a journal of literary and artistic oddities.