Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Cliff James was born in Kent, England, and spent his childhood in East Sussex. He has been the News Editor at the gay lifestyle magazine 3SIXTY, Editor of the LGBT newspaper one80news in Brighton, and Secretary of the Gay And Lesbian Humanist Association. His first published short story, The Violence Of The Gardener, appeared in A Casualty Of War: The Arcadia Book Of Gay Short Stories, edited by Peter Burton, in 2008. His first magical-realist novel Of Bodies Changed was published in 2014. The following year, his short story, The Half-Way House, appeared in the anthology, Speak My Language, edited by Torsten Højer. He has published poetry with local arts organisations and in Ekklesia’s Letters To A Broken Church. Life As A Kite, his first creative non-fiction book, was published in 2020. His latest book The Kindly Ones, a queer dystopic novel, is published in 2021, He currently lives, writes and grows olives in southern Spain. Find out more at http://cliffjames.weebly.com/