Lizzie Eldridge grew up in Glasgow and after 15 years teaching theatre in UK universities, she moved to Malta to work as a writer, actor and teacher. She returned to Glasgow in December 2019 where she continues to work as a freelance writer and teacher. Lizzie is also a political activist and is heavily involved in the fight to get justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist assassinated in Malta in 2017. This informs Lizzie's journalistic work as well as her creative fiction and she was recently elected to the board of Scottish PEN. Lizzie's first novel, Duende, was published in 2011 and is now available in its second edition (2014): http://amzn.to/1LV7WHp This book is set in Spain in the period leading up to civil war. Lizzie's second novel, Vandalism (Merlin Publishers 2015), is set in Glasgow and was shortlisted for the award of Best Novel by the National Book Council of Malta. Vandalism was also selected as one of Waterstones Glasgow's Best Books Christmas 2017. Vandalism is available in bookshops in Malta and Glasgow as well as on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2t91IlV