ANGIE BUTLER was born and raised in Johannesburg, where she worked in film and theatre before moving to London in her mid-twenties. She attained a degree in Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School. She is the author of several books on polar history, including Ice Tracks – Today’s Heroic Age of Polar Adventure, The Quest for Frank Wild, which was turned into a BBC documentary, and co-author of Shackleton’s Critic. Her passion for Antarctica led her to co-founding the expedition travel company Ice Tracks Expeditions and she spent seventeen years travelling to the Arctic and Antarctica. She married the late Royal Academician sculptor James Butler and they have five daughters between them. She lives in England, returning to South Africa several times a year. When she is not writing, she is in her studio in East Sussex. The Shadow of Elsewhere is based on a true story.
