Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor i…
Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for…
Graham Holliday was born in Manchester and now lives in a tiny village in Wiltshire with his wife and cats. He has worked as a librarian and information manager in universities and an international la…
Elyse Hoffman is an award-winning author who strives to tell historical tales with new twists. Having studied WWII since the age of thirteen and with interests in fantasy and Jewish folklore, she love…
Jo Priestley is a Yorkshire writer who has written ten books (and counting) in the 'Women of Old Yorkshire' collection of standalone historical love stories. She has been referred to as 'Yorkshire's o…
Jo de-Lancey is a fantasy writer from the U.K. She wanted to be an author from a very young age, and used to while away the hours writing stories about enchanted scarecrows – which she’d then read to …
My name is Charles Birkett. I’m a writer and advocate for the knowledge that we humans can do anything we put our minds to doing. In my life, I’ve been told many times there were things I couldn’t acc…
Marina has been passionate about music and creative writing since childhood. British-born to Caribbean parents and a solicitor by profession, she left London to move to East Sussex several years ago a…
Philip M John is a Welsh poet and author, being published originally as "Philip John" with several poetry volumes including Home Truths, Searching for Seahorses, Songs of Youth, and Wales: Poetry for …
Julia is a retired teacher. She lives with her husband and the youngest of their four children on a smallholding on the outskirts of Swansea. Her four grandchildren are an ongoing delight. She enjoys …
Roger P. Heath a life-long geologist whose favourite film is It’s a Wonderful Life, and whose bookshelves include works such as Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky, Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book…
