Orri Harðarson began his career as a musician and soon became an award-winning singer-songwriter, releasing several critically acclaimed solo albums before focusing on writing books.
Kathryn Hughes was born in Altrincham, near Manchester. After completing a secretarial course, Kathryn met her husband and they married in Canada. For twenty-nine years they ran a business together, r…
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of The Piano Tuner (2002), A Far Country (2007), The Winter Soldier (2018), A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020)--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-- a…
Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including 'The Little Shop of Happy Ever After' and 'Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery', which are also published by Sphere.' Meet Me …
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist. She began her career with a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna ("The Three Little Masters") and Dödsklockan ("The Deat…
Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir was born on January 21, 1949 in Hafnarfjörður. She graduated from Iceland's Teacher Training College in 1970 and received a B.A. degree in German and Icelandic from the Uni…
Gyrðir Elíasson's family comes from the Eastfjords but he grew up in the town of Sauðárkrókur in the north of Iceland and went to both elementary school and college there. He lived for a while in the …
AKA: Lucinda Edmonds Lucinda Riley was born in Northern Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been tran…
Nanna Rögnvaldardottir is Iceland’s most popular cookbook author and food writer. Her first book, the food encyclopaedia Matarást (Love of Food), published in 1998, was nominated for the Icelandic Lit…
Renée Knight worked for the BBC directing arts documentaries before turning to writing. She has had TV and film scripts commissioned by the BBC, Channel Four and Capital Films. In April 2013 she gradu…
Fríða Ísberg is an Icelandic author and poet based in Reykjavík. Her short story collection ITCH was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2020. Her debut novel THE MARK won The P.O. En…
Her work has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize, The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, Maístjarnan – Th…
Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (1974) studied history in Reykjavík and Salamanca and journalism at Columbia University in New York and previously worked in Copenhagen before moving bac…