Nick Holdstock is the author of two novels, The Casualties (St Martins, 2015) and Quarantine (Swift, 2022), and a short story collection, The False River (Unthank, 2019). He has written three non-fiction books about China: The Tree That Bleeds (Luath, 2012), Chasing the Chinese Dream (IB Tauris, 2017) and China’s Forgotten People (Bloomsbury, 2019).