Fiction

Beth Corby began life in a small Welsh mining village, and pursued her interest in music through to a PhD. Finding academic writing too…

Heather Burnside grew up in Gorton, a working-class area of Manchester famed as the original location for the TV series, Shameless. She moved from…

Anita Sivakumaran holds an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from the Universities of Lancaster and Leicester. Her novel The Queen (New Delhi;…

Barry Rainsford started life as a musician before decades teaching in the most difficult and deprived areas of a major city. This provided him with…

Peter Guttridge is a novelist, critic and chairperson/ interviewer at a wide range of literature festivals. A former Director of the Brighton…

Gabriela was born and raised in Poland, brought up on a diet of mythologies and fairy tales. She spent her summers in Mazury (a flatland of forests…

Dawn Goodwin’s twenty-year career has spanned PR, advertising and publishing, both in London and Johannesburg. A graduate of the Curtis Brown…

G D Sanders worked as a lab assistant in the research laboratory of a paper manufacturer. After gaining a BSc in Botany and Zoology, a second BSc…

Alex Kane is from a small village just outside Glasgow. She grew up around books, her mum always reading the latest crime thriller. She began…

Amelia Mandeville has been creating stories and characters in her head ever since she can remember. When there became too many, she started to…

Writing as Daisy Tate and Annie O’Neil. When not raising Belted Galloway cattle or beekeeping in the English countryside, Daisy writes books. She…

Meg Henderson was born in the Townhead area of Glasgow in 1948, the youngest and only girl of three children. thereafter, she lived in the…

Denzil Meyrick was born in Glasgow and brought up in Campbeltown. After studying politics, he spent time as a police officer, freelance journalist,…

Quintin Jardine is the author of three much-acclaimed and best-selling series of detective novels: Bob Skinner, Oz Blackstone and Primavera…

Michael Dobbs has never had a proper job - and now he’s a member of the House of Lords as Lord Dobbs of Wylye, perhaps he never will…He’s…

Douglas Skelton has published 12 non fiction books and eight crime thrillers. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter,…

Theresa Talbot is a BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster – best known as the voice of traffic and travel and the former host of the Beechgrove Potting…

Carly Schabowski worked as a journalist in both North Cyprus and Australia before returning to Oxford, where she studied for an MA and then a PhD…

After attending Woldingham school in Surrey, Katy Birchall went to Manchester University where she received a first-class degree in English…

Colette Victor now lives in Belgium after being born in South Africa. She has written five novels, including a YA novel, Head Over Heart, which was…

Former journalist S.D. Robertson quit his role as a local newspaper editor to pursue a lifelong ambition of becoming a novelist. An English…

Ruby Speechley, graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2009, with an MA in Creative Writing. She is a Faber Academy alumna and prolific…

After a brief stint as a lumberjack, Andrew Nicoll has spent his working life as a newspaper journalist. He has had short stories published in New…

Siobhan MacDonald, is a suspense and thriller author published in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany, her writing is perfect for fans of Liane…

Jeevani* writes multicultural women’s fiction. She was born in the South of England, but spent much of her childhood in Sri Lanka, with short…