Martyn Ford is a journalist and author from the UK. His debut middle-grade children's book, The Imagination Box, was published by Faber & Faber in 2015 to critical acclaim and went on to become a trilogy. This was followed by 2019's standalone title, Chester Parsons is Not a Gorilla. Every Missing Thing was his first novel for adult readers, published in 2020, and All Our Darkest Secrets is his second.