Mike Thacker is a former Director of the Language Centre at the University of Surrey and Chair of Examiners in Spanish for a leading examination board. Among his recent publications, as co-author, are A Spanish Learning Grammar (Arnold, second edition 2006) and the AS/A-level course !Ponte al dia! (Hodder Murray, second edition 2008).
Sebastian Bianchi is Teaching By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He is co-author of multimedia language programmes and contributes to journals and magazines. Among his recent publications are the series of AS Workbooks: Education & Work (2009), Health and Fitness & Youth Culture (2009) and Tourism & Leisure (2010), published by Philip Allan Updates.