Bruce Robinson is the director and screenwriter of Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Jennifer 8 and The Rum Diary. He also wrote the screenplays for The Killing Fields, for which he was Academy Award nominated, Shadow Makers (released in the US as Fat Man and Little Boy), Return to Paradise and In Dreams. He is the author of The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, Paranoia in the Launderette, the Samuel Johnson-longlisted They All Love Jack and of two books for children, The Obvious Elephant and Harold and the Duck, both illustrated by Sophie Windham.