Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British Ghanaian writer and photographer. His first novel, Open Water, won the Costa First Novel Award and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was a number one Times bestseller. Thomas Turner is a historian, writing and working in London, UK. He is the author of The Sports Shoe: A History from Field to Fashion, and is Associate Lecturer, Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion. Eleanor Watson is a curator and academic specializing in design and sustainable museology. She curated the Football: Designing the Beautiful Game exhibition at the Design Museum in London, which opened in 2022.