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C.J. Skuse is a bestselling author of young adult and adult crime novels. Her ideas are inspired by her deep…

Rory MacLean is one of Britain’s most expressive and adventurous nonfiction writers. His books – which have been translated into…

Kate Hubbard began her writing career as a children’s author, of fiction and nonfiction: two short biographies, of Queen Victoria…

Steve Voake is the award-winning author of several young adult novels including The Dreamwalker’s Child, The Starlight Conspiracy and Blood…

Tobias Jones was born and brought up in Somerset. After working on the London Review of Books and the Independent…

Lorna Thorpe’s first book Dancing to Motown (Pighog, 2005) was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. The book marked a…

Jane Corry is a novelist, creative-writing tutor and journalist. Her first psychological thriller, ‘My Husband’s Wife’ will be published by…

Michael Jecks is a prolific international novelist, with 32 titles in his highly acclaimed Templar series of historical thrillers. His…

James Wilson is a novelist whose work has been translated into nine languages. His four novels to date (all published…

Alyson Hallett is a prize-winning poet and Hawthornden Fellow whose latest books are Toots (Mariscat Press, 2017), and Walking Stumbling…

Sarah LeFanu’s 2012 memoir/biography of postcolonial Africa S Is for Samora: a lexical biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican…

Sue Purkiss writes books for children and young adults. Recent publications include Emily’s Surprising Voyage, which was set on the…

Helena Drysdale writes non-fiction — a hybrid of travel, memoir, history, biography and journalism. Looking for George: love and death…

Rachel Bentham loves writing both prose and script. Sometimes she tinkers with poetry. She is an experienced radio writer, having…

Julia Copus is an award-winning poet and children’s writer. Her debut collection The Shuttered Eye appeared from Bloodaxe in 1995.…

Selima Hill was born in Hampstead in 1945 into a family of painters and writers. She read Moral Sciences at…