I assist Veronique Baxter. Before joining David Higham Associates in May 2026, I worked in an international Labour and Employment law firm and for the sales department of Titan Publishing...

I assist Andrew Gordon and Jessica Woollard. Before joining David Higham Associates in March 2026, I worked as an editorial intern for Susanna Lea Associates in Paris, as a bookseller...

I assist Molly Ker Hawn and am actively building my own list, representing mostly authors of adult literary fiction and sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Please note that I’m open to referrals from clients...

I joined DHA as a director of the company in 2025, after fourteen years running the UK arm of the Bent Agency. I’m delighted to be working with such a...

I joined David Higham in 2025 after more than nine years in illustrated children’s publishing. I began my career at Templar Publishing and Big Picture Press, where I worked across...

I joined David Higham Associates in 1999 and was made a Director in 2007.  I’m very proud of the eclectic list of adult fiction, children’s books and non-fiction I have...

I assist Andrew Gordon and Jessica Woollard and am also starting to build my own list of literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, and poetry. Both of their lists cover a very...

Prior to joining David Higham in 2016, I was Senior Commissioning Editor at Orion Publishing Group and working collaboratively and editorially with my authors is something I have brought into...

I am presently open to fiction and non-fiction submissions. I love reading new work and discovering emerging writers. There is nothing more enlivening than encountering a new voice, thinking seriously and...

I joined DHA in 2018, having previously been the Editor at Gregory & Company Authors' Agents where I worked alongside Jane Gregory, helping to build the list of clients and...

A David Higham Associate I became a literary agent in 2012. Previously I was a commissioning editor at Virago Press, an imprint of Little Brown Book Group. I co-founded the Diversity...

I joined DHA in 2007, and am a director of the company and head of the Books department. Before becoming an agent I worked on the publishing side for fifteen...

I joined DHA in 1996 after five years at the Murray Pollinger agency and was appointed a director of the company in 2011. I now look after an eclectic list of...

I came into publishing via teaching English in Korea, where I taught literature to children between 6 and 11 years of age. I loved seeing how my students interacted with...

I am always hungry to read new writers and am actively looking for storytelling that surprises or moves me. I am drawn to strong points of view, especially those of...

I have been a literary agent for thirty years, beginning my career at Toby Eady Associates when China was his main focus.  I worked first for Alexandra Pringle then went...

I represent adult and YA romance, fantasy, crime & thriller. Across the board I am looking for hooky one-line pitches, compelling characters with unique voices, and the kind of stories...

I joined David Higham Associates in August 2022 and worked as an assistant in the film/TV department for almost two years before joining the books department. I previously worked in...

I am building a list of literary and upmarket fiction and non-fiction. I am particularly drawn to writing which combines elements of other genres. I love strange concepts and wild ideas,...

I am building an exciting non-fiction and literary fiction list, and I also work across DHA managing director Lizzy Kremer's list. I am actively looking for non-fiction work that appeals to...

M. Syd Rosen lives in London, where he writes about fame, fantasy, and radical politics. He is the author of International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt (Strange Attractor...

E.J. Blaise is an Irish author of all things romance. When she's not creating unrealistically perfect men, she can be found travelling, reading, and dreaming of running a bookstore café. E.J.’s...

Lila Mac graduated from the University of Edinburgh and University College London. She loves writing and dreaming up plots and different characters. When she’s not writing she goes hiking with...

Jill Mansell grew up in the Cotswolds and attended Sir William Romney's School in Tetbury. After working at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol for many years, she became a...

Elle Kang is the writer of the incredibly popular Substack series, How to Get Smart Again. In this series, Elle writes beautiful and thought-provoking essays on what she has been...

Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe is a chartered Psychologist and Dean of the College of Health & Society at Buckinghamshire New University. He is an applied psychologist with expertise in Parapsychology and Investigative...

Jonathan Egid is a Lecturer in Philosophy at SOAS, University of London, specialising in the global history of philosophy, with a particular focus on early modern Ethiopia. He completed his...

Georgie Williams (they/them) was born in Poole to a South African and Scottish family and is currently based in East London, United Kingdom. They specialise in transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary and...

Sadhbh Devlin doesn't remember ever having to learn how to read, because she was lucky enough to have parents who read to her so much when she was very young...

Jeremy Crang is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the universities of Stirling, Oxford and Edinburgh. His main field of research is Britain...

Michael Attwell is managing director of the independent television production company MAP TV. Previously he was a senior commissioning executive at the BBC, Channel 4, and Five. Between 2002 and...

Ronnie Mathews spent a lot of her childhood and teens with a book in her hand, and she’s now in the business of writing romances that aren’t only steamy but...

Elena is a science writer from Athens in Greece. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge where she studied algae – both in their natural environment and for...

Sandy Rompotiyoke is a British-Thai writer, architect, and artist based in London. She is the winner of the 2026 Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. Her debut novel, Hallowed Land, is a...

Tolani Akinola is a writer of fiction. She was a 2024 MacDowell artist-in-residence and 2023 Reese's Book Club LitUp fellow. She holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and...

Gabriel Krauze is a writer from London whose debut novel Who They Was, an urgent and electrifying work of autofiction, was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2020. Photo © Volodymyr Romániuk...

Dhanveer Singh Brar is a writer, scholar, and teacher focussing on questions of race and culture, aesthetics and politics from the mid-twentieth century to the present. His work explores the...

Lucy Apps was born in East London, trained as a doctor, and now works as a GP. She is the sister of Peter Apps, whose book Show Me the Bodies (about...

Lauren Myracle is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author of more than forty books for children, teens, and adults. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages, with two...

Sebastian Payne is a columnist, leader writer and broadcaster for The Times. He writes editorials for the newspaper as well as a regular column on British policy and politics. He...

Yemisi is a medical doctor turned health and science journalist with degrees in Medicine and Human Genetics from King’s College London. She writes for the international features desk at The...

Daisy Bourne is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, where she was first mentored by Ali Smith. She writes fiction, short stories and poetry,...

Professor Jo Sharp is an internationally-leading human geographer with interests in geopolitical and feminist geography. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge before moving to the...

Stephanie Garber is the #1 Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestselling author of the Caraval series, the Once Upon a Broken Heart series and Alchemy of Secrets. Her...

Laura Davis was born in The Potteries, educated in Dublin and Nottingham, and eventually moved to the North East, where she remains. She grew up wanting to be a writer, but...

As a child, Bethany Walker's favourite things were reading, history and art. Her least favourite things were her two older brothers, who used to wrap her in a duvet and...

Norman Coates was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied at the University of Cape Town. He came to the UK and found work as a theatre designer, creating...

Anna Trench is a graphic novelist, writer, illustrator and teacher based in London. Her debut graphic novel, Florrie: a football love story, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2025. It...

Ruth Maclean-Jones completed the Prose Fiction MA at UEA in 2025. Prior to that, she spent a decade working in government and technology, primarily as a product manager in cloud...

Shaun Harte was born in Waterford, Ireland and is an Irish-language advocate. He attended Irish-medium education throughout his childhood, where his passion for the language began. After an (accidental) almost-decade hiatus...

With a career spanning TV, radio, festivals and charity - from running the BBC’s 500 Words competition with DJ Chris Evans to creating the Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award for...

Dr Emily Clifford is an academic and writer interested in art, literature, and imagination. After an undergraduate degree in Classics at Cambridge, she studied at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar....

Alison Lurie (1926-2020) was an American writer whose work gained critical acclaim and a loyal readership around the world. She was the author of several celebrated novels, including the best-selling...

Deborah Tomkins is a novelist and short story writer. Rooted in nature, her writing explores climate change and humankind’s complex relationships with the natural world. She is the author of Aerth (Weatherglass Books,...

Katalina Watt is an Edinburgh-based author of speculative fiction including Saltswept (2026, Hodderscape). They were selected for a 2025 Literature Matters Award from Royal Society of Literature, AIR Literature UNESCO...

Originally from Liverpool, Gemma is a researcher specialising in women’s human rights during pregnancy and childbirth. She originally trained as a lawyer before gaining masters’ degrees in International Human Rights...

Charlotte Lobdell grew up just outside San Francisco, where she organized the children's section at her mom's bookstore and filmed soapy dramas starring her dolls. She holds a BFA in...

Beth Ann Bauman is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Girls, and the young-adult novels Rosie and Skate, selected for the New York Times Editors’ Choice list and Booklist’s Top Ten First...

Louie Stowell was born in London and has lived there ever since, except for a short stint in Watford to study advertising. She’s worked as a copywriter, cartoonist, PR and...

Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick is a children's writer and illustrator. Her work ranges across all age groups, from the wordless picture book Owl Bat Bat Owl to her YA reimagining of an...

Maryrose  Wood is the author of the Bad Badger books for middle-grade readers, including Bad Badger: A Love Story and Bad Badger: A Family Story, published by Union Square Kids....

Ali Terese is a middle grade and YA author who writes funny and heartfelt stories including Free Period (Scholastic) and Vote for the G.O.A.T. (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster). Her work has...

Angie Thomas was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, as indicated by her accent. She was an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse...

Celeste Pewter is a former communications staffer/speechwriter with more than two decades of experience in politics. She was featured on the Asian-American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) inaugural list of 100 journalists...

Gita Trelease is the author of All That Glitters (UK title: Enchantée), a NPR Best Book of the Year, its sequel Everything That Burns (UK title: Liberté), and a contributor...

Hilary McKay is one of Britain’s best-loved children’s authors. Her books—including Saffy’s Angel, The Exiles, The Time of Green Magic, Binny Bewitched, and Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales—have been published in...

Peadar Ó Guilín is the author of the YA novel The Call, which was inspired by the beautiful northwest of Ireland where he grew up, shortlisted for the Bookseller's YA...

Kaitlyn Sage Patterson grew up with her nose in a book outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. After a ten-year stint in West Tennessee, she’s once more happily living...

Susie Nadler was born and raised in San Francisco, where she still lives with her husband and their teenage twins. As a school librarian, she gets to spend most of...

Scottish author Martin Stewart has been writing for a long time, having made his first book using Post-It notes when aged eight. He went on to complete a B.A. in...

Sera Birdie Milano is a children’s and YA author. Writing for younger readers as Birdie Milano, she is the author of the comic romances Boy Meets Hamster and Boy Meets Ghoul....

Sarah Moon is a teacher and writer. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her wife, Jasmine, and their daughter, Zora. She is the coeditor of The Letter...

Ronald L. Smith is the award-winning author of middle-grade novels including The Young Prince, Spellbound and Uprising, the Black Panther Trilogy from Marvel-Disney. His other books include Project Mercury, The...

Sarvenaz Tash is the author of nine novels (and counting) for kids, young adults, and adults including The Queen of Ocean Parkway series, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love, and A Whole Song...

Meera Trehan grew up in Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. As a kid, she read as much as she could, wrote and memorized poems, and spent many hours at her...

Cecilia Vinesse is the author of the young adult novels All-Nighter, The Girl Next Door, Seven Days of You, and The Summer of Us. She was born in France but grew up between Tokyo, Japan,...

Cady Owens grew up on the Northern California coast and now lives in London, where the weather is almost as foggy as in her hometown. She has an English degree...

Rebecca K Reilly (Ngati Hine, Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea) is a Māori writer from Auckland, New Zealand. She holds a BA (Hons) in German Literature from the University of...

Anneke Schwob is a lapsed academic and former robot impersonator whose stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Baffling and elsewhere. Anneke has attended Clarion Writers Workshop and the Banff Centre...

Peter Scalpello is a writer and psychotherapist from Glasgow, based in London. Their work has appeared in Five Dials, Granta, The London Magazine and the New York Times, among other publications. Peter’s debut, Limbic, was highly...

Tracey grew up in Cardiff, Wales. She studied history and anthropology, and worked as a teacher and in international development. She has three grown-up daughters, and lives with her husband...

Casey Lyall lives in Southwestern Ontario where she also works at her local library as a branch assistant. When she’s not writing, Casey loves to bake, doodle, and learn extremely...

Freddie Kölsch is a connoisseur and crafter of frightful fiction (with a dash of hope). She lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with her high school sweetheart-turned-wife, a handful of cats, a houseful...

Taylor Kitchings’ roots in Mississippi are many generations deep, though it took him a while to circle back to them. As a college freshman, he recorded the original album Clean...

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock was born and raised in Alaska. Before writing young adult literature, she spent many years working as a radio journalist for Alaska Public Radio stations around the state....

Matt Killeen earned an MA in Creative Writing for Children from Manchester Metropolitan University and has two decades of experience as an editor, copywriter, sportswriter, and music and videogame journalist....

Lucy Ivison co-wrote Lobsters (US title: A Totally Awkward Love Story), Never Evers and Freshers (US title: Freshmen) while working as the librarian at a central London girls’ school. Now...

Angharad Hill is a writing teacher with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. As a young reader, she loved the Brontë sisters, Louise M. Alcott’s...

Alwyn Hamilton was born in Toronto and spent her childhood bouncing between Europe and Canada until her parents settled in France. She grew up in a small town there, which...

Heidi grew up in Hawaii where she rode horses and raised peacocks, and then she moved to New York City and grew up even more, as one tends to do....

Frances Hardinge is the author of twelve fantasy books for children and young adults, all of them dark, weird and critically acclaimed, including The Lie Tree, Fly By Night, and...

Kat Ellis (she/her) is a young adult author whose novels include The Devouring Light, Wicked Little Deeds/Burden Falls, Harrow Lake, Purge, Breaker and Blackfin Sky. She’s a fan of all...

Channelle Desamours grew up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia where she currently teaches high school science at a STEM academy. Her students motivate, challenge, and inspire her daily (and they’re...

Meira was in the lowest reading group in first grade, although once she finally learned to read she never stopped and will read almost anything (unless it’s way too scary)...

Megan grew up moving around the Midwest and graduated summa cum laude from Purdue University. She now spends her mornings wishing she liked coffee, her days learning from the students...

Rebecca Donnelly was born in England, where she got to stand in the rain and wave at the Queen once, and at seven moved to California, where they don’t do...

Annabelle Cormack has been writing about cheerfully amoral witches and inconvenient prophecies since she was old enough to pick up a pen. She holds an MA in Writing for Young...

Stephanie Burgis grew up in Michigan, but now lives in Wales with her husband and two kids, surrounded by mountains, castles and coffee shops. She writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for...

Rachel Brian is the founder, owner, and principal animator of Blue Seat Studios. Rachel is a former researcher and an educator, having taught physiology, biology and math at both the...

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese diaspora author, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate. The former engineer has published five books, most recently Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism (Walker, 2023)....

Lisette Auton lives in a landlocked town in northeast England. She wishes that she’d been born by the sea like the rest of her sprawling family, but makes up for...

Alison Ames is the author of It Looks Like Us, a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection pick, and To Break A Covenant, a Colorado Book Award finalist. She lives in Idaho with her...

Autumn Allen is the author of the young adult novels All You Have to Do, a Kirkus best YA book of 2023 and a People Magazine must-read for fall 2023,...

Allie Reynolds was born and raised in Lincoln, England. Her very first job was a Saturday job in a bookstore. In her twenties she competed at snowboard halfpipe and was...

Marianne van Pelt is American-Irish. She grew up in Connecticut, where her father taught consciousness studies at Yale Divinity School. Twenty years ago, she followed her heart to West Cork,...

Georgie Jones writes poems. It is her favourite thing to do. Although, she’d like it to be known that a packet* of Frazzles and an episode** of Below Deck: Mediterranean comes...

Emma Mountain is a Nurse and Midwife whose work has given her a close view of the extremes of human experience — from tenderness and hope to fear and loss....

Joanna Petrone's short stories and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Bellingham Review, Romper, Slate, Vice, Avidly, Longreads, and The Awl, among other publications. She earned a...

Kristien Potgieter is an author and editor from Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and an MA in Creative Writing from the...

Olivia Downes is a London-based writer. After studying Law at the University of Oxford she worked as a bookseller for Daunt Books. Her writing has appeared in publications including Spectator...

Meghan Newman is a Canadian writer living in London, where she explores themes of queerness, heartache, religion, sex, belonging, and self-discovery, sometimes all before lunch. She’s currently working on her...

Erin Leland is an actor and writer based in Brooklyn and previously worked as the founding director of a downtown New York gallery, Bridget Donahue, from 2015-2022, where she curated...

Nasim Luczaj is a bilingual poet and Polish-English translator. She is the author of Hind Mouth (Earthbound Press) and the winner of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize...

A Mug of Life is a social project founded in 2025 on the idea that a simple cup of tea can change one's day. It turns out millions of people...

César Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights scholar, field lawyer, and founding director of the MOTH (More-Than-Human Life) Program at NYU School of Law. He is a Professor of Law and...

Adelle Stripe is an author and journalist whose writing explores working-class culture, hidden histories, popular music, and smalltown life. Adelle’s debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, was based on...

Giuliana Furci is a field mycologist, fungal activist, author and foundress and director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, a National Geographic Explorer, co-chair of the IUCN SSC...

Anne Freier is a German/British writer, scientist, and musician. She holds a Master’s in Neuroscience and Neuropsychology from Birkbeck University and a Master’s in Biomedical Research from Imperial College London,...

Madeline Taylor is a fantasy romance author with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. She loves to escape reality whenever possible, so reading and writing are great outlets...

Dan Cash comes from a big working-class family in Wiltshire and has always dreamt of being a published author. From making storybooks for his primary school teacher to writing a...

Daniel Hewitt is Investigations Editor for ITV News, and an award-winning broadcaster, presenter and documentary-maker. His work on housing has won many plaudits, gaining Dan the Royal Television Specialist Journalist...

Gabi Burton is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sing Me to Sleep and Drown Me with Dreams. She grew up reading and writing in St. Louis, Missouri. She majored...

Danielle Girard is the USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning author of several novels, including the Annabelle Schwartzman series and Pinky Swear. She is also the creator and host of the...

Elizabeth Jolley was one of Australia's most celebrated writers, with a formidable international reputation. She was recognised in Australia with an AO for services to literature and was awarded Honorary...

Steven Chatterton is an author, screenwriter, and multi-award-winning film director who grew up working class in The Black Country - Tolkien’s inspiration for Mordor. He writes stories where the uncanny...

Gilly Macmillan is the internationally bestselling author of eight novels: What She Knew, The Perfect Girl, Odd Child Out, I Know You Know, The Nanny, To Tell You The Truth,...

Naomi Mitchison was a novelist, poet and passionate campaigner for social justice and women's rights. Born in Edinburgh, Mitchison's first novel was published in 1923, when she was twenty-six. Mitchison...

Gabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast. His first novel, My Absolute Darling was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times bestseller and a New York...

Charlotte Avery has loved books for as long as she can remember. As a child, she would write stories on her computer with star borders and devour books by torchlight...

Harriet is a London based writer of novels, short stories and essays. She takes inspiration from the history, folklore and landscape of Britain, and is drawn to stories of memory...

A born and bred Londoner, Megan has been sharing her undying love for her city’s dark and morbid past on TikTok since 2021. Otherwise known as @historyoflondon, she makes history...

Anna Mazzola is an award-winning author of historical fiction and modern thrillers. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe award. Her fourth novel, The House of Whispers,...

Harriet Crouzières studied English at Cambridge before becoming a Banking lawyer in the City. She has spent the past decade as a Chief of Staff, including at a creative not-for-profit...

Oliver Webb Carter is the Editor of Aspects of History magazine and website, and presenter of the Aspects of History podcast. He regularly appears on television commenting on historical subjects...

Sandra Mikhail is an internationally known accredited practising dietitian, author and the founder and director of Nutrition A-Z by Sandra Mikhail. She holds a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics(Monash University, Australia),...

Ian Taylor is Reader in Motivation Science at the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences at Loughborough University. He is an Associate Fellow and Chartered Psychologist of the British...

Jess Bacon is a freelance writer, culture critic and speaker who specialises in film, digital culture and feminism. With degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing, she writes for publications...

Altair Brandon-Salmon is a lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in art history from the University of Oxford and a...

Alona Ferber is a journalist and writer based in London with roots and expertise in the Middle East. Formerly a reporter and senior editor at the Haaretz daily, based in Tel...

Evelyn Scott is a Surrey-based academic with degrees from Royal Holloway and University College London, who originally qualified as a Classical and Forensic Archaeologist. Evelyn suffers from severe endometriosis, and...

Catrìona McLean is fascinated with the art of bookbinding, always has a secret stash of chocolate, and loves Cornish beaches in winter. She has been longlisted for the Cheshire Novel...

Joanna Wolfarth is an art historian and author of the acclaimed Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding, a powerful blend of memoir and cultural history that explores the complexities of infant...

Tom Lathan is the author of Lost Wonders: Ten Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century (Picador, 2024), which was a recipient of a Society of Authors award and has been shortlisted for...

Charlotte Tierney's writing has appeared in Conjunctions, The London Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, New England Review, Best British Short Stories 2024 and The Galley Beggar Short Story Prize, amongst others. Her...

After studying international relations and political philosophy in Washington DC and the UK, Chris Reiter has worked as a journalist covering economics, politics and business news. For more than twenty...

Will Wilkes studied German and Italian in London and Rome. Now based in Frankfurt, he has spent his working life writing about Germany, travelling across the country to talk with politicians,...

Photo © Stéphane Pitti Jonah Goodman is a British writer, editor and journalist. Born in Birmingham, he studied English Literature at New College, Oxford under Craig Raine. In 2010, he moved...

Joanna Oldman grew up in Surrey, where she spent her childhood climbing trees, building dens and reading adventure stories. She has a Master’s in English from Edinburgh University. Since then,...

Lauren Mooney is a writer from the East Midlands. Her debut novel, Service, will be published by Bonnier in 2026. Since 2015, Lauren has co-run award-winning Kandinsky Theatre Company with director...

Darren is an award-winning author of books for young people. His debut novel, Wranglestone, was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards (2020) YA Book Prize and Branford Boase and won the Waterstones...

Briar is an artist currently based in the Scottish Highlands. They grew up in the Cotswolds where they developed highly distinguished passions including hunting for fairies, writing dolphin poetry and...

Luke Smith is a Formula 1 and motorsport journalist based in Bexhill-on-Sea. He is currently a Senior Writer covering Formula 1 for The Athletic and his work regularly features in...

Kate is a writer of long-form and short fiction. From West Cork, Ireland, she now lives and works in Oxfordshire. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the Bath Short...

Saumya Dave is the author of WELL-BEHAVED INDIAN WOMEN and WHAT A HAPPY FAMILY (published by Berkey in the US). WELL-BEHAVED INDIAN WOMEN was selected as "this summer's fix" by...

Phoebe Hancock is a writer, academic, and all-round doer of things. She studies female queerness in the Late Antique world, and has presented her award-winning research internationally. She enjoys sewing...

Olivia Belle, an English Literature graduate, traded the Western literary canon for uplifting, swoony romances the moment she tossed her cap in the air—and she hasn’t looked back since. In...

Londoner Jennifer Bell worked as a children's bookseller at a world-famous bookshop before becoming an author. Her debut series, The Uncommoners, was an international bestseller and has been translated into...

Casey Larsen is a British–Swiss writer and strategic communications consultant. Casey advises political and business leaders on geopolitics, technology and international affairs. He started his career at Vanity Fair and occasionally...

Sara Sehdev is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.  She works in film as both a producer and a talent agent for actors, and her features include multi-BAFTA-nominated BOILING...

Becca Voelcker is a historian of visual culture. She earned a PhD from Harvard University in 2021, working across film studies, art history, and social anthropology. She is currently based in...

Jane Copland is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work has been published in the Independent, Witness Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review and a number of other journals, as well...

Matt Glasby is a writer based in Glasgow. After growing up in Devon obsessed with horror, he studied film at university then moved to Hong Kong and became an entertainment...

Tom Roberts is an author, researcher and historian. He holds Master’s degrees from the universities of Westminster and Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Modern History from Macquarie University. His books...

Florianne Humphrey is a freelance writer, marketer, and travel journalist with published short stories and poems. Working for WriteMentor, Florianne helps launch and grow the careers of children’s writers, collaborating...

Chloe Banks is the writer of stories: some short, some long and some prize-winning. Her debut novel, The Art of Letting Go, was shortlisted for the People's Book Prize, and...

Jamie Harrow is a writer of romantic comedies. Her debut novel, One on One, is available now from Dutton/Penguin Random House (US) and Quercus (UK). Jamie grew up on the sidelines...

Imani Thompson was born in 1998 and is a British writer of Scottish, Irish and Jamaican heritage. After studying Sociology at Cambridge University, she wrote Honey, her debut novel, while working...

Yashka Moore FRSA is a writer and designer. Her artistic work explores how everyday objects shape our minds, culture and society. She studied and then taught philosophy and psychology and...

Eilis O’Neal is a writer of young adult fantasy and science fiction. She is the author of The False Princess, which was an American Library Association YALSA Best Fiction for Young...

Laura Davis was born in The Potteries, educated in Dublin and Nottingham, and finally moved to the North East, where she remains. She has worked as a blackjack dealer, which was...

Molly Conisbee is a social historian who is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. She has spent ten years researching...

Cindy Yu is a contributing editor at The Times and Sunday Times, where she writes on Chinese society, politics and history, among other things. Prior to this she worked at...

Katie Hoskins is a communications professional and copywriter. Originally from England, she came to Australia in 2007 to study journalism. Easily seduced by sunshine and great coffee, she’s still there. Katie...

Amie Corry is a London-based writer. Her art criticism and fiction have appeared in Frieze, Worms, AnOther, Art Monthly, The Toerag, Gagosian Quarterly and the Times Literary Supplement among others....

Anna Brook-Mitchell is a BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy-winning writer, actor and filmmaker. Her BBC Comedy Short Film, Man Eater – written with her screenwriting partner, Angela Nesi – TX’d on BBC...

Nada Esmaeel is a self-taught visual artist and illustrator based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Born and raised in the United States, her work is heavily influenced by her continued exploration...

Luke Adam Hawker is an artist with a background in Architecture and Design. Luke commenced his career as a designer before he became a full-time artist in 2015. He has...

Rosie grew up on a farm in the south of England, and was raised on a diet of Edam cheese, Wendy Cope poems and Joni Mitchell songs. Having been a...

Paul Goldsmith is an evolutionary neuroscientist and practising neurologist. He has a triple first in natural sciences from Cambridge and a clinical scholarship from Oxford. He undertook postgraduate medical training...

Rime Allaf is a Syrian-born writer, editor, and public speaker. A former Associate Fellow at London’s eminent Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs) for nearly ten years, she has researched,...

Siobhan Cole was born and grew up in Cardiff, but currently lives just outside of Oxford with her family. She has a First Class (Hons) BA in English and Creative...

Rianna Croxford is an award-winning investigations correspondent for BBC News, specialising in uncovering abuses of power, corruption, and social injustices. She also investigates, presents, and produces podcasts and documentaries, including for...

AJ Pearce was born in Hampshire, UK. (AJ stands for Amanda-Jane although no one ever calls her that). She majored in American History at the University of Sussex, including a...

A self-proclaimed hopeless romantic, Braidee Otto combines her academic background in Literary Studies with a deep passion for storytelling to create heartfelt, immersive narratives. Songbird of the Sorrows is the...

Serafina Cusack is a writer from London who writes about terrible people from terrible cities doing terrible things.  In 2023, she graduated with an Mlitt in Creative Writing with Distinction...

Sarah Young is a former journalist from New Zealand. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing with distinction from the University of East Anglia in 2014, where she was...

Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. His music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production,...

Caitlyn Paxson is a writer and performer. She reviews books for NPR Books and Quill & Quire and has been the artistic director of storytelling performances, a fiber arts consultant, a...

Brunello Rosa is a macro-economist and strategist who works in both private and public sectors, advising market participants, policy-makers and institutions. He is CEO and Head of Research at Rosa...

David Domoney is a gardening expert and TV presenter, and Britain's only Chartered Horticulturist working on national television. He has received numerous awards for his work over his decades-long career,...

Simar Preet Kaur is a writer based in the Indian Himalaya. Her first book – Sky Road, a work of nonfiction forthcoming on Penguin Press/Particular Books – received a PEN America/Jean...

Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) was a British novelist and short story writer whose novel, The Lifeline, is believed to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, Fleming having been a pupil...

Twinkle Khanna is a writer and columnist with The Times of India. She has written four books and has won numerous awards such as the Crossword Book Award and the...

Lamorna Ash is a writer, journalist and editor at Weatherglass Books. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Nature Writing...

Anna has written for TV (one BAFTA win), film and radio, taught screenwriting and also works as a script consultant. Previously, she worked in factual TV, journalism and PR as...

Alina Bellchambers grew up in her family’s bookstore and spent her childhood immersed in fantastical worlds. She now makes use of her psychology degree by writing twisty thrillers for adults...

Luke Melia is from Crawley. His short stories have appeared in The White Review (online), Litro Magazine, and the Unthank Unthology series. He currently lives in Brisbane and is editing...

Rozsika Parker published widely in Art History and Psychoanalysis. The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine first appeared in 1984. Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal...

Colwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a James A. Michener Center Fellowship, and...

Kae Tempest is a poet. They are also a writer, a lyricist, a performer and a recording artist. They have published plays, poems, a novel, a book-length essay, released albums...

Fred Foster is the founder of Turnips, a fruit and veg wholesale and retail company that has been supplying restaurants around the UK for more than 30 years with quality seasonal...

Danielle L. Jensen is the USA Today bestselling author of the Bridge Kingdom, Dark Shores, and Malediction series, as well as the Saga of the Unfated. Her novels are published...

Karen Sinotok is a successful lifestyle journalist and senior director at a top-selling women’s monthly magazine. She started her writing career as a pop columnist in the 80s before moving...

Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. Pigeon English, his first novel, was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Guardian First Book...

Diane was born in Charlotte, North Carolina where she went to public schools. After graduating from high school, she attended Women’s College (which later became the University of North Carolina...

Roy was a Guyanese writer who settled in the UK. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1964 but pursued a career as a schoolteacher and writer....

Aisling was born in Dublin. She holds a BA in English, Sociology and Politics from NUI Galway and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from University College Dublin. Her...

Cato Pedder was born into the Quaker Clark shoe family and is a former newspaper reporter with 15 years of experience in South Africa and the UK, including at the...

Foday is from Sierra Leone and lives in Scotland where he works as a teacher. He studied English Language and Literature at Fourah Bay College and worked as a teacher...

Karen is a writer and poet. She has previously worked as a magician’s assistant and a dancer. She holds a Master’s in English and Creative Writing from Bath Spa University...

Nathan Hill’s is the author of The Nix, which was named one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Slate, and received the...

M. L. Rio has been an actor, a bookseller, an academic, and a music writer. An avid road-tripper and record collector, when she’s not on the hunt for her next...

Roy Lewis was brought up in Birmingham, and studied at University College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. He began his career as an economist, but after serving as...

Des Powell served in the Parachute Regiment as a sergeant major before spending twenty years in the SAS at the heart of Counter Terrorism and Special Projects teams. A former...

Adrian Hon is the CEO and founder of independent games developer Six to Start and the co-creator of Zombies, Run! He previously studied neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and...

Aimée is a writer and poet from Edinburgh. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and the Faber Academy. Her first novel, The Last Witch on the Knock,...

Kathryn Purdie is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Burning Glass series, the Bone Grace duology, and The Forest Grimm duology. Her love of storytelling began as a young girl when her dad told her,...

Rebecca Kauffman is the award-winning author of five novels: Another Place You’ve Never Been; The Gunners; The House On Fripp Island; Chorus; and the forthcoming work, I’ll Come to You....

Charlotte is a fantasy writer who loves stories with magic, humour, and plenty of romance. In 2023, she was selected as a RevPit winner. When she’s not writing, she can...

P. H. Newby was the first winner of the Booker Prize. He was a perpetual high achiever – a novelist and BBC mandarin who in 1969 became the first winner...

Lixing Sun obtained his degree in Shanghai and then pursued a PhD in ecology, behaviour, and evolution at the State University of New York (ESF) and Syracuse University. He holds...

James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. Starting out on Dungeon magazine at 20 years old, he moved on to do foundational work for...

Dr James Wade College Associate Professor, Fellow, and Director of Studies at Girton College, Cambridge. James grew up on a wilderness homestead in Alaska and has spent the last twenty...

Cameron Sullivan was born in Perth, Western Australia. He grew up with the dark fantasy and horror icons of the 80s and went on to study classics and creative writing...

Nigel Toon is the founder of Graphcore and a leading AI entrepreneur. He sits as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK Research and Innovation council and has sat...

Andrew Kenrick has previously worked as an archaeologist and an archivist, a games developer and an editor, before returning to academia to study non-fiction and biography. He holds a PhD...

Rebecca Ryan lives in Bradford with her three young children. Although she always loved writing, it hadn’t really occurred to her that she could do it professionally. She recently left her...

Eleanor Morgan is a psychotherapist and writer. She works in private practice and in the charity sector. She is the author of two non-fiction books: Anxiety for Beginners (A Personal Investigation),...

Marni Appleton is a writer living in London. She holds a PhD in creative-critical writing from the University of East Anglia. Her research considers feminism and the politics of feeling...

Damien Lewis is a former war and conflict reporter and now a number-one internationally bestselling author. He is a gifted storyteller who has won numerous awards for his work, both...

Dr Martin Shaw is a writer, storyteller and mythologist. Award-winning author of seventeen books, his most recent, Bardskull, was Guardian Book of the Day and described by the Sunday Times as...

Ben Masters is the author of a novel, Noughties (Hamish Hamilton, 2012), and a book of literary criticism, Novel Style (Oxford University Press, 2017). He teaches literature at the University...

Liu Hong grew up in the North East of China, near the Chinese-North Korean border. She came to Britain in 1989. Since then she has worked here as a writer,...

Janine, or better known online as JJ, has been drawing and writing comics ever since she could hold a pencil, a stack of copy paper and a stapler. This led...

Sir Ivor Crewe is an author and academic. He was appointed a Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University at the age of twenty-one, before returning to Oxford for two years...

Satu is a Fearless-era Swiftie and author of books about culture. She has written books about many people whose artistry and/or clothes she likes, including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Zendaya...

RB Croft loves the wild and ‘what if’. A married father and certified book nut, he’s often found outdoors with a pen in his hand, getting himself into trouble. His...

KT Hoffman is an author of queer romance & historical fiction. His debut rom-com, The Prospects, will be published by Dial Press (US) and Sphere (UK). KT is originally from Beaverton,...

Becca is the author of The Christmas Orphans' Club and currently working on her second novel. She is also the Co-Creator of RomComPods, a scripted fiction podcast studio where she...

Richard Partington is Senior Tutor and a Fellow in History at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. He researches and lectures on late-medieval politics, law and war, especially in the...

Caroline Burt is a historian of medieval England and fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She read History at Churchill College, Cambridge, before studying for an MPhil and Ph.D. on Edward...

Rebecca Jayne Philipson grew up in a mining town in County Durham, where she still lives. Educated in a small convent, she deferred her university degree to set up her...

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval & Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. He is a former President of the New Chaucer Society....

Hanna Thomas Uose is a British Japanese writer living in London. In 2023, she completed the MA in Prose Fiction at UEA. In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for...

Laura is an illustrator and comic maker from Devon, UK, with a deep passion for storytelling, particularly of the witchy, spooky, enchanting kind. Laura has honed her craft through self-publishing...

Lucy Hooft, writing as L.D. Sharpe, has loved books for as long as she can remember – stories of adventure, of weird and wonderful places, and seeing the world through...

Fiona read English Literature at Oxford University, where she set up Puppet, a magazine that published opinion and creative writing. Since then, she has worked in genealogy and journalism, and...

Dr Halik Kochanski is a British historian. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she taught history at several universities and is the author of Sir Garnet Wolseley: A Victorian...

Eleanor Ross is a former journalist and climate communications specialist from the UK. She started her career at the Guardian and has written for most national and international papers, covering...

Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist and foreign correspondent. He is a contributing editor for the Mail on Sunday and writes regularly for a number of other newspapers and magazines....

P S Cunliffe was born and grew up in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. A musician, artist and writer, he holds degrees in Fine Art and Creative Writing. He has spent the last...

Pip Finkemeyer's fiction has been listed for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, the Disquiet Literary Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She...

Graham Lee is a digital skills educator with experience training tens of thousands of professionals, primarily in the UK and US. He is founder, CEO and owner of Lydian Stone, an...

Peter Driscoll (4 February 1942 - 30 October 2005) was a best-selling Irish author of international thrillers. He was educated in South Africa and served in the military there in the...

Nicola Sturgeon served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023. She was the first woman to become First Minister and...

Dan Light studied English Literature and Philosophy at Edinburgh University. As a student he travelled to India, Nepal and South America, and trekked in the Himalaya and the Andes mountain...

Charlotte Philby is a former reporter, editor and columnist at The Independent newspaper - shortlisted for the 2013 Cudlipp prize for investigative journalism - and a former contributing editor at...

Sinéad Nolan grew up playing between the forests and beaches of leafy County Dublin, Ireland. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from University of Derby and a Masters in...

Rachel Shabi is a journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Independent, The Times and the New York Review of Books, among other papers and...

Holly Gramazio is a game designer, curator and writer, originally from Adelaide and currently based in London. She founded Now Play This, a festival at Somerset House that brings together...

Kate Leaver is an author, journalist, and former professional fairy. Her work has been published by the Guardian, British Vogue, Glamour, the Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. Usually on topics like...

Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV...

Rufaro Faith Mazarura is a British Zimbabwean writer who grew up in Birmingham and studied English and Creative Writing at The University of Surrey. Rufaro works as a podcast producer,...

Margot Bennett (1912-1980) worked as an advertising copywriter before turning to fiction. Best known for her crime fiction from the 1940s and 1950s  (including The Man Who Didn't Fly and...

Manchán Magan was a writer, presenter and travel documentary maker with a life’s mission to steer people back to nature through the old stories preserved in Irish culture and heritage....

  Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of highly acclaimed contemporary cult novels including The Ed of Mr. Y, Oligarchy, The Seed Collectors, Popco, and the Worldquake...

Charlotte Hanson was born and grew herself in Kent. After a short career as a stylist at Toni&Guy, she began a late educational journey, resulting in a Ph.D. at the...

Laura, a former journalist and feminist campaigner, graduated in 2019 with a distinction from UEA Crime Fiction MA. She was longlisted for the 2021 Caledonia Novel Award and shortlisted for...

Morgan Dick is a writer from Calgary, Canada. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Grain, Geist, CAROUSEL, Cloud Lake Literary, The Prairie Journal, Vagabond City Lit, The New...

Jamie Costello lives in London. Under her own name, Laura Wilson, she is the author of six educational books on historical subjects for eight-to-twelve-year-olds, and thirteen critically acclaimed psychological thrillers,...

Martin Brunt is crime correspondent for Sky News. He has been with the channel since its launch in 1989, spending the first five years as a general reporter before moving to...

Sophie Clark writes YA fantasy featuring wounded girls with sharp edges, charming boys who fall for them anyway, dark and twisted gods and other unholy things. She has a Master’s...

Camilla Chester is a dog walker who writes. She’s been a finalist in two national children’s writing competitions, for the National Literacy Trust and Mslexia, and has previously successfully self-published three...

Professor Barbara J. Keys is a specialist in US and international history, currently based at the University of Durham. She began her teaching career in 2003 after receiving her Ph.D....

Cait has spent her whole life immersing herself in the worlds of books. Her love of literature inspired her to help found BookTok, where she now spends way too much...

Kat Ailes’ debut novel was runner-up for the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize 2021. She works as an editor and freelanced for several years to allow her to take...

Noby Leong is a food and science communicator. He was born in Malaysia and raised in Australia, where he gained a PhD in chemistry from the University of Adelaide. He...

Scottish-born Canadian author Sheila Burnford (1918-1984) is best known for her timeless classic, The Incredible Journey, about two dogs and a cat travelling through the Canadian wilderness in search of their...

Paco Calvo is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINTLab) in the University of Murcia, Spain, where his research is primarily in exploring and experimenting with...

Anna Lena is a self-taught illustrator and author based in Gouda, the Netherlands. She has always been fond of creating art and finding interesting stories. Having trained as an Industrial...

Lizzie Dearden has been covering terrorism as a journalist since Isis declared its caliphate in Syria and Iraq in 2014. She initially reported on Isis-inspired attacks around the world and...

  Mika Royd is a writer and curator and has worked as an editor for various publications including Chroma, a queer literary journal. In 2020 they completed an MA in Creative...

Rukky Brume grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She studied Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and works as a finance lawyer. Rukky is an alumna...

Laurie Owens is of Welsh and French origin. She grew up near, then lived in, Bristol. She dropped out of Bath Theatre School to drive a van around Europe and...

Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. From 2012 to 2016 he was Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the...

Having secured a First Class Honours degree in Classical Literature and Civilisation at the University of Birmingham, Rosie Hewlett has studied Greek mythology in depth and is passionate about unearthing...

Laura Beers is Professor of British History at the American University in Washington, DC, and divides her time between DC and York in the UK. She studied at Princeton and...

Yuji Huang was born in Shanghai and grew up in the American South. She has lived in Hong Kong and Singapore and currently lives with her husband and two young...

Sam Wetherell is a Lecturer in the History of Britain and the World at the University of York. Before arriving at York, Sam completed his Ph.D. at the University of...

Arenike Adebajo is a Nigerian writer living in south London. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Guardian and 4th Estate Short Story Prize in 2019 and The White...

Eleanor is an illustrator, author and designer living in London.  Her first degree in Fine Art followed by an MA in Interactive Media led to a fun career designing interactive experiences for...

Lynsey May lives, loves and writes in Edinburgh. She won first place in the Fresh Ink novel contest in 2020, a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013, a...

Mariel Franklin lives and works in London. She has an MA in English from Edinburgh University and later went on to study Fine Art at Goldsmiths. After graduating, she spent...

Jess is a graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.  She is currently working on her debut non-fiction book for children, to be published...

Vanessa Walters was born and raised in London. She has a background in international journalism and playwriting, and has staged plays throughout the UK, notably Michael X (Almeida Theatre, 2021)....

Now Associate Editor (Fashion) at The Guardian, Jess Cartner-Morley has been the paper's chief voice on fashion for two decades, with writing which ranges from covering the international collections to...

Author Sareeta Domingo published the romantic novels Possibility, If I Don’t Have You (longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards) and The Three of Us, as well as being creator, editor and contributing writer of...

Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, and has over fifteen years of experience working on global health politics. She has conducted research and...

Nick Crumpton is a children’s writer and zoologist from the UK. He wrote his first book for children whilst completing his PhD in zoology at the University of Cambridge, and...

Ella Beech is a children's book author and illustrator living in Cambridge, UK. After completing a BA in Fine Art Painting, she moved into children’s publishing, where she worked for...

Tsitsi Dangarembga lives and works in Zimbabwe where she was born. She is the author of the Tambudzai Trilogy comprising of Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable...

Photo © Bernie Chan Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of The Storm We Made published by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Marysue Rucci Books/S&S in 2024. It has published...

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi is a writer, editor, and translator. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including the Independent, CeaseFire Magazine, The Theatre Times, Wasafiri, Media Diversified, and the...

April Roach is a writer and journalist based in Amsterdam. Her poems have been published by Moko Mag and Fly on the Wall Press and her prose has featured in...

Mikki Brammer is from Tasmania, Australia, but thanks to her parents' wanderlust, spent parts of her childhood throughout the Asia Pacific, exploring volcanoes in Western Samoa, jungles in Indonesia, archipelagos...

Rachel Greenlaw grew up in North Cornwall, surrounded by wild moorland. She studied English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University before moving to an island in the middle of the...

Chris Galvin spent his youth reading books and comics, which grew into a passion for writing (and occasional doodling). Originally from County Offaly, Chris moved to Dublin to learn scriptwriting,...

Barbara McLean has been a lecturer in English Literature and has published literary book reviews, essays and poetry. She is the author of Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life, Random...

Phil Whitaker is a doctor in general practice when not writing. He won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award for his debut, Eclipse...

Before writing her first novel, Suzanne Ewart taught English to secondary school children in Greater Manchester. In 2019 she won the eHarmony/Trapeze books Write Your Own Love Story competition and...

Dennis C. Grube is Professor in Politics and Public Policy at Cambridge University, and Co-Director at the Bennett Institute of Public Policy, where he leads the Institute's research programme into...

For twenty years James worked in Dorset, Somerset and East Devon as a shepherd, sheep shearer and cider maker. He is the author of Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft...

Gina Balibrera earned an MFA in Prose from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers' Program, where she was also a postgraduate fellow. She’s been awarded grants from the Gould...

Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian in 1895, the son of an Armenian merchant, and brought up in England where his father had escaped to avoid Turkish persecution, Michael Arlen assumed his adopted...

Kelsey Normand is a debut novelist who hails from the United States. Arriving at Edinburgh University to study, she quickly fell in love with Scotland and has lived there ever...

Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of One Small Voice (Fig Tree, Penguin), an Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023. He grew up in India, and studied at the University of Oxford...

Jessica Stanley is the London-based Australian author of A Great Hope (2022) and Consider Yourself Kissed (2025). Consider Yourself Kissed is a literary love story set in contemporary Hackney. It follows...

Ore Agbaje-Williams is a British-Nigerian writer and editor from London who has written for gal-dem, Glamour and Wasafiri. Her debut novel, The Three of Us, was published by Jonathan Cape...

Hannah Stowe is an artist, writer, sailor and scientist. Born on the Welsh coast, there was never a time when she did not know the sea. She has worked as...

Doreen Cunningham is an Irish-British writer born in Wales. After studying engineering Doreen worked briefly in climate related research at NERC and in storm modelling at Newcastle University, before turning...

Trevor Horn is a music producer, label and recording studio owner, songwriter and singer. After his first big international hit 'Video Killed the Radio Star' with the Buggles in 1979,...

Emma-Lee Moss is a London-based writer and musician. Emma-Lee has contributed to the Guardian, Vice, i-D, British GQ, Wired, the Good Journal and more. She writes about music, books, motherhood, identity and...

Roxie Key lives in Northampton with her wife and daughter. Currently working as a creative copywriter for a global brand, Roxie has a degree in creative writing and an unhealthy...

Sara Ahmed was a feminist academic for over 20 years before she resigned in 2016 in protest at the failure of her university to address the problem of sexual harassment....

Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two cats. When she told her second-grade...

Jessie Payne writes novels, short stories and flash fiction. She is working on a speculative novel, drawing on her scientific background to create a recognisable world with a twist. Her...

N V (Nicky) Peacock started her writing career with supernatural YA novellas and horror short stories for anthologies published across globe. With a love of true crime podcasts and a...

Kate J. Armstrong spent her childhood in Washington, D.C. and Fairfax, Virginia furtively penning stories about foul-mouthed dragons and, this one time, an epic poem about her intense love for...

Dr Sean Wensley is the author of Through A Vet’s Eyes: How we can all choose a better life for animals, published by Octopus. He is a leading UK vet...

Rob Parker is a married father of three who lives in Warrington, UK. The author of the Ben Bracken thrillers, Crook’s Hollow and the #1 Audible bestseller Far From The...

Cathy Fisher is an author and illustrator. She grew up with eight brothers and sisters in Bath and has been a teacher and practising artist since she graduated from art...

Ryan Graudin is the author of six young adult novels, including the Carnegie nominated Wolf By Wolf duology, Invictus and The Walled City. She resides near Charleston, South Carolina with...

Kelly Andrew lives outside of Boston with her husband, two daughters, and a persnickety Boston Terrier. She has a Bachelor’s in Social Work, but received her Master’s in English &...

Patricia Wolf has been a journalist for more than 15 years. She is a regular contributor to titles including The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New York Times and The...

Penny Boxall writes middle-grade fiction. She’s fascinated by all things 18th-century. In her museums jobs she’s helped look after William Wordsworth’s spectacles at Dove Cottage, Laurence Sterne’s porcelain cow at Shandy...

Zoë Rankin grew up in a rural Scottish village, and she now lives in New Zealand with her husband and two young daughters.  After leaving school, Zoë spent ten years...

James is from Newry in the north of Ireland. Recent work has appeared in Banshee, bath magg, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review and The Poetry Review. He is editor of...

Theo Clare left school at fifteen. Gifted with intelligence, determined to shape her own future she worked as an actress in tv and film, barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in...

Lawrence is a writer, researcher and teacher focusing on monsters, animals and nature. Her undergraduate and masters studies were in natural sciences and zoology and her PhD was on exotic...

Ashley Leon is a debut novelist whose book centres around a young woman travelling the world. Her epic journey delves into the complexities of coming into womanhood while trying to...

Annie Hulley is a 2017 graduate of the Faber Academy’s acclaimed ‘Writing a Novel’ course. She trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and is an actress and playwright....

Helen writes funny and fantastical tales, with diverse casts of characters, for children and young adults. She is fuelled by a love of all things super-powered, feminism, and chocolate raisins. Helen...

Dr Susan Owens is an art historian and former V & A curator. Her books include Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art (Yale University Press, 2018, co-edited with Nicholas Tromans); The...

Courtney Pine is a saxophonist and founder of the Jazz Warriors. He was one of the first black British jazz artists to make a serious mark on the jazz scene...

Anna Caig has worked in communications for 17 years. She tutors on the MA Journalism course at the University of Sheffield and runs a business training creative people in how...

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. Her first book, Passions and Tempers (Ecco / HarperCollins, 2007; Bompiani, 2009) was a New York Times Review Editor’s Choice and one of the Washington Post Best...

Tasha Sylva is an aspiring small-scale farmer, with a focus on regenerative agriculture, community and localisation. She is currently based in the southwest of England, after time in London, Scotland...

Skye Melki-Wegner started writing as soon as she could hold a pen. She was immediately drawn to fantasy — and soon her notebooks overflowed with dragons, pixies, wizards and various...

Linda O’Sullivan has worked across a wide array of occupations including tour guide, researcher, lecturer, tech entrepreneur, script editor and writer for children’s animated and live action television. She recently...

R. S. Burnett is a journalist and writer who grew up in the Falkland Islands before coming to the UK to study English at the University of Leicester. He began...

Kennedy is Senior Lecturer and Director of Global Public Health programmes at Barts and the London Medical School. He has appeared on the World Tonight talking about the government’s response...

Lisa Smith is a writer from South London born to Caribbean parents. She has an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she won the...

Emma Finlayson-Palmer is a working class, autistic author and artist who lives in the West Midlands with her husband and a multitude of children, cats and chickens! She runs #ukteenchat,...

Anna Metcalfe was born in Germany. Her short fiction has been published in The Best of British Short Stories, The Dublin Review and Lighthouse Journal, among other places, and has...

Mark Arrigo and Steven Chatterton are co-creators and writer-directors of the film 'Adnan'. A key theme that runs throughout their work is that of resourceful children creatively engaging with their...

Elizabeth Alker is currently a presenter for BBC Radio 3, where the programmes she works on include Unclassified and Classical Live. She joined the BBC as a researcher for Radio 4 in...

Vandana Singh-Lal studied environment and forestry at the University of Oxford and also holds degrees in politics and economics. She worked in the forests of Madhya Pradesh documenting forest-protection practices,...

Dharini Bhaskar was born in Bombay and has lived in the UK, Greece and Delhi. She was editorial director of Simon and Schuster India and one of the five young...

Georgia was born and brought up in London, then went on to study Art History at Sussex University. After adventuring around Europe, North America, Central and South America and India...

Keith Jarrett is a writer, poet, performer and educator based in London. He is a UK Poetry Slam Champion and FLUPP International Poetry Slam Winner. His poem, ‘From the Log...

Michael Meyer (1921-2000) was an author, playwright and translator, best known for his translations of Ibsen and Strindberg which won him international acclaim. His biography of Ibsen published in 1967...

Momtaza Mehri is a prize-winning poet, essayist and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in the likes of Granta, Artforum, The Guardian, BOMB Magazine and Real...

Anthony was born in Trinidad. He is a poet, novelist, academic and musician. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing...

Alex was born in smoky Stoke-on-Trent and grew up in the Staffordshire Moorlands. She has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a kid, she spent much of...

Charlotte Morgan-Nwokenna holds a BA and MRes in English Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London. She was Creative Director of online magazine ‘Poejazzi’ where she promoted new, diverse voices. Charlotte...

Maria was born in Sierra Leone. Inspired by her heritage, Maria reinvents traditional African dishes to create high end Afro-fusion cuisine. She is renowned for her “Salone Spark” and “Salone...

Simon Tyler is an author, illustrator and multidisciplinary designer based in St Leonards-on-Sea. His work has featured in The Times, Telegraph, Mail Online, Guardian, Independent, Elle Decoration, It’s Nice That,...

Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge on the history...

Bhanu Kapil was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. Her most recent book, How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press), won the T.S....

Photo © Marcos Appelt. Tessa Bickers has always been fascinated by people. What makes them different and what makes them the same. Those universal experiences from grief and loneliness, to heartbreak...

Ellie Eaton is a freelance writer, whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Observer and Time Out. Former Writer-in-Residence at a men’s prison in the UK, she holds an...

Usma Malik is an academic specialising in narrative structures in contemporary writing. She divides her time between the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University where she teaches on Literature,...

Erica Sugo Anyadike began her career in the film industry as a screenwriter in South Africa and has worked in various capacities in the television sector. In 2019, her short...

Judith Bryan is a writer and playwright. Her first novel Bernard and the Cloth Monkey won the 1997 Saga Prize and was published by Flamingo/HarperCollins. It is being republished by...

Yemisí Aríbisálà is a Nigerian-born writer and painter. Her first book, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups Sex & Nigerian Tastebuds, used Nigerian food as a literary substrate to think about Nigeria’s culture...

Yewande was born in Barbados. She grew up in Nigeria and moved to South Africa in 1992. Yewande trained as an architect. After completing a Masters degree in Creative Writing, her...

Professor Peter Stott MBE is one of our foremost climate scientists. An expert on anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change, he currently leads the Climate Attribution team at the...

Neil Blackmore is the author of four novels. After attending university at Leeds and in London, he published his first novels in his twenties. His work has been acclaimed for its...

Stephanie Victoire holds a BA in Creative Writing from London Metropolitan University. Her short story collection, The Other World, It Whispers, was longlisted for the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story...

Robbie Morrison grew up Linwood, outside Glasgow. One of the most highly regarded writers in the UK comics industry, he has created many popular characters, such as Nikolai Dante, an...

Hanna Randall trained as a costume maker at RADA and has worked in the London theatre and film costume industry for several years. She holds an MA in Japanese Studies...

Varaidzo is a writer and editor. She was previously the Digital Editor at Wasafiri and the Arts & Culture Editor at gal-dem. Her short story ‘Bus Stop’ was shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate...

Like all good rebels, British-Mauritiam Kester was born on November 5* 1984**, and subsequently dragged up all over the globe: Africa, Mauritius, France, UK, and the USA are some of...

Sunya Mara grew up in seven different cities across the globe, though she could always be found between the pages of a book. Sunya studied film production and business at the...

Seerut K. Chawla is a trauma-informed integrative psychotherapist who lives and works in London. She is currently working on a non-fiction book about surviving emotional trauma. Follow her on Instagram @seerutkchawla...

Kate Reed Petty lives in Baltimore. Her fiction and essays have been published online by Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Blackbird, Nat. Brut, the Los Angeles Review of Books blog,...

Gilles Peterson is an internationally recognised and revered broadcaster, DJ and record label owner. He has founded influential labels like Acid Jazz and Talkin' Loud, and created his current label,...

Michael Cockerell is one of the UK's most distinguished and experienced political film-makers. He has made numerous biographical profiles of British Prime Ministers and other senior politicians, as well as...

Huw Lemmey is a novelist, artist and critic living in Barcelona. He is the author of three novels: Unknown Language (Ignota Books 2020), Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell (Montez Press, 2019), and Chubz: The...

Photo © Andrew Kahumbu Stephen Buoro is the 2018 recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a...

Riaz Phillips is a writer, videomaker and photographer born and raised in London. He is passionate about the Afro-Caribbean food he grew up with and sought to redress the void...

E. R. Braithwaite was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1912. Educated at the City College of New York and the University of Cambridge, he served in the Royal...

Sonia Lambert’s novel Three Mothers was published by Piatkus (Little, Brown) in 2008, with editions in the USA (Berkley Press) and Italy (Mondadori). She has written for BBC Radio 4,...

Angela Hui is a freelance writer, journalist and editor primarily covering lifestyle, food and travel. Bylines include BBC, Eater, Huffington Post, Independent, Metro, Refinery29, Time Out and Vice, among other...

Photo © Katherine Leedale Mandy Yin is chef-owner of Sambal Shiok Laksa Bar in London. An ex-lawyer and self-taught chef, Mandy started off with a street food stall in 2013, followed...

Photo © Lily Bertrand-Webb Raymond Antrobus is a British-Jamaican poet, educator and writer from London. He is the author of the poetry collections, To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press, 2017), The Perseverance...

Subhadra Das is a writer, historian, broadcaster, comedian and museum curator at UCL Culture where she works with the UCL Pathology and Science Collections. She regularly talks to diverse audiences...

Iman Amrani is an award-winning journalist at the Guardian where she presents short documentaries on society, culture and politics. Besides the Guardian, she has written for publications including The Independent,...

Rosanna Amaka is a writer from London born to Nigerian and Caribbean parents. Her debut novel, The Book of Echoes, was published by Doubleday in February 2020. Her short story...

Christian Weaver is a barrister at Garden Court North Chambers (Manchester) and founder of The Law in 60 Seconds which has been featured in the BBC and the Guardian amongst...

Carolyn Woods was making a new life for herself in the Cotswolds when she had the misfortune to meet one of Britain's most notorious conmen. The man she fell in...

Photo © YellowBellyPhoto Amman Brar is a writer and theatre maker. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He was one of the inaugural winners...

Alexandra Page is a writer of picture book texts and young fiction. She grew up between England and Zimbabwe, making up stories to entertain her younger sisters and brother. After studying...

Symeon Brown is a reporter and journalist at Channel 4 News and has been hailed as 'the future of journalism' and ‘imaginative, original, thoughtful [...] a one off' by Jon...

Saba Sams is a fiction writer based in London. Her stories have appeared in The Stinging Fly and The Tangerine. She was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize in...

Photo © Etienne Gilfillan Will Harris is a writer of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage, born and based in London. He has worked in schools, led workshops at the Southbank Centre and...

Alex Holder is a freelance writer and consultant who writes for Elle, Grazia, Refinery29 and the Guardian among others. Her projects have been featured everywhere from the BBC to the...

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published seven collections of poetry including Your Soul Is A River (Thought...

Lara Lee is an Australian chef and food writer of Chinese-Indonesian heritage. She is a regular contributor to Food52, the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit...

Born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Yamada attended Waseda University before entering the Shōchiku film studios, where he trained as an assistant director under Keisuke Kinoshita. He left the company at age...

Leone Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor and educator. Her third novel, This One Sky Day (Faber) was nominated for the Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize, among...

Vanessa Len writes YA fantasy about girl anti-heroes, monsters and enemies who are maybe in love. When not writing, she loves trying new foods, and reading fantasy, science fiction, and...

Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born writer who writes about Caribbean migration and sub-cultures, in particular the supernatural and supranational stories that sustain the diaspora. Her short story collection, The Ice...

Emma Glass was born in Wales and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children's nurse. Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has...

Ellie Marney is the Australian author of nine YA crime titles, including The Chillers, the Every series, No Limits, White Night, and the rom-crime series, Circus Hearts. Ellie’s Kirkus-reviewed debut, Every...

C.S. Pacat is the best-selling author of the Captive Prince trilogy, and the comic book series Fence. Born in Australia and educated at the University of Melbourne, she has since lived...

Hitomi Kanehara is the author of Snakes and Earrings which won the top Japanese literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. One of the judges, celebrated writer Ryu Murakami, said her book was 'easily...

Jonathan Boff is Professor of Military History at the University of Birmingham. He completed his Ph.D. at King's College London having moved to academia after a twenty-year career in international...

Ros Wynne-Jones is an award-winning journalist, columnist and writer. She currently writes the Daily Mirror’s campaigning ‘Real Britain’ column and runs Britain Talks – a ground-breaking project bringing people together...

Gavanndra Hodge grew up in Battersea and as a teenager balanced the thrills of the Kings Road with a passion for Latin. A year in Rome was followed by a Classics...

Julie Cameron was born and lives in the UK. She studied Biomedical Sciences at university and has worked as both a clinician and manager in the National Health Service. Her...

Tom Seymour Evans is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has been shortlisted for the Anthony Burgess/ Observer Prize for arts journalism, and his proposal for a collective biography,...

Born in 1923, Eva Hanagan was a literary novelist, described by Auberon Waugh as the 'Jane Austen of the 20th century'.  Her first novel, In Thrall, was published in 1977 and she...

Professor Sir Michael Howard OM, who died in December 2019 at the age of ninety-seven, was one of Britain's foremost post-war military historians. A Chichele Professor of the History of...

Kate Simants spent several years as an investigative broadcast journalist, for both Channel 4 and the BBC, gaining first-hand knowledge of the realities of police procedure as well as the...

Katy Balls is currently Washington Editor and columnist for The Times and Sunday Times, having previously been Political Editor of the Spectator, for which she also hosted its daily politics...

Founded in 1930 by a group of leading detective novelists, including Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts, the Detection Club is the oldest and most...

John Bercow was first elected to Parliament as the MP for Buckingham in 1997. He sought and won election as Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2009, going...

Elizabeth is the author of two novels: Nightdancing and The Ingenious Edgar Jones. She is currently completing her third: Cassie's War. Her latest work Lost and Found is a re-telling of...

Shannon Pufahl grew up in rural Kansas. She teaches at Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review and elsewhere,...

Dashe grew up in rural California and now lives in London with her wonderfully fun and creative family. She writes spooky, funny and mind-bending SFF for children and is the...

S W Kane has a degree in History of Design and worked at the Royal Institute of British Architects before taking on a series of totally unrelated jobs in radio...

Author of adventure thrillers, mainly based on First and Second World War naval battles, with many of the characters and events being based on real-life models. Meticulously researched, and drawing...

Phil Tinline is a leading producer of historical narrative documentaries. He specialises in mining the points where history, politics, ideas and culture meet, to cast new light on the present...

Ani Katz is a writer, photographer, and teacher. She was born and raised on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, and holds an MFA in photography from Columbia...

Sigrid Nunez has published eight novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, What Are You Going Through and The Friend, which...

Craig Adams studied Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and has worked in publishing and also as a teacher. His first book, The Six Secrets of Intelligence, was published in...

Professor Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist and writer. She studied at Oxford University followed by an M.Phil at Cambridge, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Psychology from University College...

S. E. Lynes lives in Middlesex with her husband, three kids and her dog, Lola. A former BBC producer, creative writing tutor for ten years, Susie now writes full time...

Joshua is an artist, writer and political organiser whose work intersects across political struggles and whose campaigning sits in a variety of organisations. He has been involved in various movements...

Kerry Andrew is a London-based musician, and author. Their debut novel, Swansong, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2018 and her second Skin in 2021. Kerry is the winner of four...

A.K.’s first foray into crime fiction was a detective thriller trilogy, written under the pen name Anya Lipska, following the adventures of Janusz Kiszka, tough guy and fixer to London’s...

Evan Mawdsley completed History degrees at Haverford College (Philadelphia) and the University of Chicago before returning to Britain to write a Ph.D. thesis at the University of London. In 1970 he...

The Rt Hon. Ed Miliband has been Member of Parliament for Doncaster North since 2005. He served as Minister and Secretary of State in the governments of Tony Blair and...

Jane Rogoyska’s work explores conflict, exile, memory and politics in twentieth-century Europe. Her latest book, Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War (Allen Lane, February 2026) tells the story...

Nick Hunt has walked and written across much of Europe, its landscapes, cultures, people, history, wildness, myths and stories. His articles have appeared in the Economist, the Guardian and other...

Kate Bradley has worked in both education and psychiatric services. She holds a first-class English literature Degree, a certificate in creative writing from Sussex University, in addition to qualifications in...

Rupert Russell is a writer and filmmaker. He has filmed in 20 countries and made two award-winning documentaries. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard and has published in...

Elisabeth Leake trained as a historian at Yale University and Cambridge, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2013. She then held a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Royal Holloway,...

Adèle Geras is one of Britain's most acclaimed writers for young people. Her work, which ranges from young adult fiction, to ghost stories and picture books, includes Troy (shortlisted for...

Aditya Chakrabortty is senior economics commentator for the Guardian, where he writes a regular column and reports from around Britain and the world. In 2017 he won the British Journalism...

James Bloodworth is a writer and journalist. He is a former editor of the blog Left Foot Forward, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, Spectator, Independent and Wall...

Davies is a writer, singer-songwriter and DJ based in Cornwall, where she lives and works in a tin shed, an experience she describes in her second book Homesick, or Why I...

Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at King's College London. Prior to joining King's, Bobby was Managing Director of the Ipsos MORI Social Research...

Laura Mucha is an ex-lawyer turned award-winning poet and Author-in-Residence in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Her writing has won multiple international awards and her...

Melanie Challenger writes, researches, and broadcasts on history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science, and the relationship between humans and the living world. She is the author of...

Sarfraz Manzoor is a journalist, documentary-maker and broadcaster. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian, presenter of documentaries on BBC Radio 4, and a cultural commentator for programmes such...

Sally Symes has a degree and MA in Graphic Design and worked for many years as a designer of children’s books before turning her skills to writing them. She has...

Rob McCarthy attended medical school in London, during which time he wrote The Hollow Men and A Handful of Ashes, featuring Met Police force medical examiner Dr Harry Kent. After...

Emma Hogan is a writer and journalist. Since 2012 she has been a staff correspondent at The Economist, travelling to nearly two dozen countries for stories. Emma’s interests are wide...

Sabina is a graphic designer and illustrator based in London, UK. After graduating MSc in Molecular Biology at Max Planck Institute, Germany in 2008, she left science for a creative...

After a successful career in advertising, working as a media buyer, Rod Reynolds took City University’s two-year MA in crime writing, where he started The Dark Inside, his first Charlie...

Amy Bonnaffons’ story collection THE WRONG HEAVEN will be published by Little, Brown (2018). She is a founding editor of 7×7.la, a literary journal devoted to collaborations between writers and visual artists. ...

Sophie Pedder has been Paris Bureau Chief of the Economist since 2003. She has interviewed Emmanuel Macron on numerous occasions since 2012, and has had rare access to both him and his inner...

Gaby Koppel grew up in Cardiff and studied at the University of Sussex.  She is a journalist,  film-maker and producer with credits across a broad range of factual television including Crimewatch UK and Watchdog. ...

Amer Anwar grew up in West London. After leaving college he had a variety of jobs, including warehouse assistant, comic book lettering artist, driver for emergency doctors and chalet rep...

James von Leyden grew up in Durham and studied Philosophy & Modern Languages at Oxford University. He works as an advertising copywriter and brand consultant. He first visited Morocco in 1985, leading to...

Seb Falk is a Research Fellow at Girton College, the University of Cambridge. He worked for the UK Civil Service and as a teacher after studying at Oxford, and then...

Chris Hirst is a change agent. After more than a decade in CEO positions – including as Global CEO of Havas Creative – he has a proven track record of...

Sarah Bailey is a Criminology and Applied Psychology graduate and has been writing fiction since filling her notebook with adventure stories at the age of eight. Sarah belongs to a...

Rebecca Griffiths grew up in rural mid-Wales and went on to gain a first class honours degree in English literature. After a successful business career in London, Dublin and Scotland...

Sarah Hilary is the critically-acclaimed author of nine novels. Her debut, Someone Else's Skin, won the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year 2015 and was a World Book Night selection, a...

Kelly Doust is the author of two novels – Dressing the Dearloves (2018) and Precious Things (2016) – as well as five non-fiction titles including the illustrated fashion memoir, A...

Paula Daly is the critically acclaimed author of six highly successful crime/ commercial fiction novels. Her work has been sold in fifteen countries, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Crime...

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia, and worked as an advocate in one of Kuala Lumpur's leading law firms before becoming a full-time writer. His debut novel The Gift of...

Caro Ramsay was born and educated in Glasgow. Now in her late thirties, she lives in a village on the West Coast of Scotland with an odd selection of stray...

Michelle has been writing professionally for 20 years as a journalist on magazines, including on the production desk at Elle, and as Features Editor of Heat. Her last staff position...

Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years’ travel she became a barrister, specialising in crime and family...

Jack Bowman is a writer and a gambler. He does not blog; he does not tweet; he does not answer the phone or the door to unsolicited callers. He is 38....

Nick Stone was born on Halloween 1966 in Cambridge. As a teenager he was a keen amateur boxer but gave it up to study history at Cambridge University. Stone’s novels,...

Michele Rowe is an experienced scriptwriter for film and television. She has been nominated for, and won, several awards, the most recent being an International Emmy nomination last year for...

After a degree in Law and a stint as a journalist, Susan embarked on a career in television drama. She wrote numerous scripts for shows ranging from Casualty and Heartbeat...

“Crime is the most dramatic of transgressions and takes a reader, and the writer, to a more exciting and dangerous place.” - Belinda Bauer, on why she writes crime novels. 'Belinda Bauer...

Kate O’Riordan was brought up in the west of Ireland. She is the award winning author of five novels, and has also written for stage and screen and most recently...

Dubbed the Queen of Crime, Val McDermid has sold over 18.5 million books to date across the globe and is translated into over 40 languages. She is perhaps best-known for...

Niamh O'Connor is one of Ireland's best known crime authors. She is the true crime editor for the Sunday World, Ireland's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, for whom she has written...

Gladys Mitchell was born in the village of Cowley, Oxford, in April 1901. She was educated at the Rothschild School, Brentford, the Green School, Isleworth, and at Goldsmiths' and University...

Mo Hayder left school at fifteen. Gifted with intelligence, determined to shape her own future she worked as an actress in tv and film, barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in...

Minette Walters is one of England’s best-selling crime writers. She is the author of twelve novels, winning the CWA John Creasey Award for The Ice House, the Edgar Allan Poe...

Anna Hoghton is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People. She is half-Irish and grew up in Bristol where she now lives with her Californian...

Eve Garnett was born in Worcestershire and trained as a painter in London at Chelsea and then the Royal Academy Schools. Ill health curtailed her painting career and thus she...

Born in Kent, Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) went on to read classics and then philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford. She married Elia Goller in 1942 and had three children. In 1960...

Martyn Waites was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has turned his hand to many occupations: market trader, bar manager, stand-up comic and teacher of drama to teenage ex-offenders. Following this last...

Laura Wilson was brought up in London and has degrees in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford and UCL, London. She has worked briefly and ingloriously as a teacher, and...

Julian Thompson has acted as consultant and presenter of D-Day, VE Day and VJ Day television programmes for the BBC. He is a retired Major General and served for 34...

IN THE RED, Mark's first novel, was runner up in the PG Wodehouse Prize. It is very funny, reminiscent of Tom Sharpe. The BBC first broadcast a seven-part radio series...

John Ryan was the creator of the famous 'Captain Pugwash' series.  John's first Captain Pugwash title was published in 1957 by The Bodley Head and many of his pugwash tales are...

Clare Layton lives in South London and was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association in 2000/1. She also writes under the name Natasha Cooper....

Ann Lawrence was born in England in l942. She wrote more than fifteen highly original fantasy novels and collections of stories for children, including The Hawk Of May, which was highly...

Nicholas Fisk has been an actor, jazz musician, illustrator, photographer and has worked in advertising. He has written more than fifty books, most of which are Science Fiction for older children. Nicholas's...

James Reeves was born near London in 1909. He began his writing career as a poet in 1936, and first turned his attention to writing for young readers in 1945. His...

Jan Ormerod grew up in Western Australia. Her first book, Sunshine, won the Mother Goose Award, was voted Book of the Year by the Children's Book Council of Australia and was...

Chrissie Glazebrook lived in Newcastle where she was a full-time writer. Apart from her writing she was also an experienced television and radio presenter and has written many Arts reviews and...

Polly Evans was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a place once voted the second most boring town in England. She studied modern languages at Cambridge University where she learnt a little about...

Harold Jones was a painter, wood engraver and printmaker He started book illustration in the 1930s, using pen and ink, often with colour washes delicately applied. His lithographs for Walterde la Mare’s This...

Pauline Fisk wrote stories from a very young age, and her first book Midnight Blue won the Smarties Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. Pauline lived in Shrewsbury, England with...

Sarah Diamond was born in 1976 and grew up in Weymouth before studying English Literature at Reading University. She sadly passed away in April 2013....

Eileen Dewhurst, author of numerous books, was born in Liverpool, read English at Oxford, and has earned her living in a variety of ways, including journalism. When not writing, she...

Natasha Cooper lives in London and writes for a variety of newspapers and journals. She was Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association in 2000/01 and regularly speaks at crime-writing conferences on...

In l997, Philippa Pearce was awarded the O.B.E. for her services to children’s literature. Her book, Tom's Midnight Garden won the Carnegie Medal in 1958 and has remained in print ever since....

Robert Westall made a sensational debut with The Machine Gunners in 1975. It won the Carnegie Medal and Westall established an international reputation. His books have been translated into many languages...

Betty Boothroyd, former Speaker, has written her memoirs in collaboration with Michael Jones, Associate Editor (Politics) of the Sunday Times....

Robert Barnard (1936 - 2013) lived in Leeds, was born in Essex and educated at Balliol. He had a distinguished career as an academic before he became a full-time writer....

Edward Ardizzone began his career as an artist and Illustrator in 1927. In 1936 he made a picture book of a story he had told his children - the classic Little...

Chloë Rayban (a.k.a Carolyn Bear) is a writer with her finger truly on the pulse of teenage life today. Praise for her novels has come from such diverse quarters as School Librarian,...

Christina Pishiris was born in London to Greek Cypriot parents, who used to bribe her to go to family weddings by promising that George Michael might be there. To deal...

Jo Bannister began her career as a journalist after leaving school at sixteen to work on a weekly newspaper. She was shortlisted for several prestigious awards and worked as an...

Sarah Garland has written and illustrated over fifty picture books and adventure stories for young children. She is best known for her warm and witty portrayals of family relationships, and for...

Melanie Walsh studied illustration at the Royal College of Art. Following this, she worked as a textile designer and for magazine and card companies, including Habitat, Paperchase and The Art Group....

Before his untimely death in early 2024, Derek Draper was a leadership consultant, business psychologist and executive coach. He was the CEO of CDP Leadership Consultants and prior to founding...

Theresa Breslin is a prolific author and the recipient of many high profile awards for writing for young people. Her first novel, Simon’s Challenge, won the Kathleen Fidler Award. This was followed...

Jacqueline has recently graduated from the prestigious MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Previous to this, she completed a BA in Fine Art and has...

Emma Chichester Clark studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College, where she was taught by Quentin Blake.  Her first book, Listen to This! won the 1988 Mother Goose...

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has worked as an advertising copywriter, reviewer and bookseller while writing novels for children and adults. The success of a non-fiction book, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH...

Alex Milway was born in Hereford in 1978.  He went to art college in Shrewsbury when he was 16, followed by an art degree in Cheltenham, where he won a David...

Jesse Hodgson studied Illustration in Bristol at the University of the West of England. She now lives and works in Bristol, where she has a studio space. Her Illustrations for Pongo received the ‘Highly...

Kate studied illustration at Central St Martin's, and graduated with an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin in 2016. Her work has been published in magazines, and her illustrations...

Glen James Brown was born and raised in County Durham. His first novel Ironopolis—about the demise of Teesside social housing and its impact of memory, identity, and folklore—was published in 2018...

Pat has been bringing young people and books together for many years, as an English teacher, lecturer in Children's Literature and in her work with children's reading groups. She is...

Diana Wynne Jones had an unsettled childhood against the background of the Second World War. Her family moved frequently, finally settling in rural Essex. She and her two sisters were...

Kesia Lupo studied History at Oxford University and Creative Writing at Bath Spa. She lives in Bristol with her husband and works as a children’s book editor, writing in the...

Shoneyin is an award winning British Nigerian author and poet who was named Africa Literary Person of the Year in 2017. Her work includes three books of poems: So All the Time...

P. M. Freestone (she/they) is a fantasy author published in eight languages, and an academic interested in climate change, water and plants. Their debut novel Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom was...

Che Golden has led a typical second-generation Irish life, spending most of her childhood shuttling backwards and forwards between London and Blarney, Co Cork, where her mother comes from. Her father...

Jonathan Stroud is the author of three internationally bestselling series: the award-winning Bartimaeus books, which have been published in 36 languages; the critically acclaimed Lockwood & Co., which has been...

Joan Rankin was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and attended the Michaelis Art School, Cape Town. She has illustrated over thirty books for children,many of which she has written herself and...

Sarah Mitchell grew up in Norfolk and studied law at Cambridge University. She practised as a barrister in London for 20 years in the field of human rights and European...

Claire King grew up in South Yorkshire, studied economics at Newnham College, Cambridge and then spent twenty years working in business before remembering what she wanted to be when she...

Navtej Sarna is a member of the Indian Foreign Service. He is currently the Indian Ambassador to the US, previously he was India's High Commissioner to the UK and before...

Holly Watt started her career at the Sunday Times, before working on the investigation teams at the Telegraph, where she played a key role in exposing the MPs' expenses scandal,...

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic...

Hannah Begbie studied Art History at Cambridge University before working as a talent agent representing award-winning writers and comedians for more than a decade. While developing her debut novel Mother, she...

Jon Bentley is a TV producer, presenter and journalist. He is one of the main presenters of The Gadget Show (Channel 5), and was previously producer and executive producer of...

Oliver Harris was born in London in 1978. He has an MA in Shakespeare studies from UCL, and a PhD in psychoanalysis from Birkbeck. He is the author of the...

Richard Lumsden has worked as an actor, writer and composer in television, film and theatre for 30 years. As an actor his films include Downhill, Sightseers and Sense & Sensibility,...

Deborah O’Donoghue studied English and French at the University of Sussex, and Performing Arts at the Sorbonne, before teaching for ten years. She has also worked in car body repairs,...

Lauren Bravo is an author and freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel and feminism, for publications including Grazia, Stylist, Refinery29, the Telegraph, the Independent and the Guardian. She is...

Deborah Hewitt is a teacher and previous Undiscovered Voices winner living in Manchester. Her debut novel, The Nightjar, inspired by Finnish mythology and folklore, was published by Pan Macmillan in...

Sarah and Lizzie are Sunday Times bestselling writers and comedians, currently developing a number of scripted projects both self-generated and as part of writers’ rooms. Their work has been optioned...

Ellie Mae O'Hagan is a freelance journalist and campaigner for the Good Law Project. She was previously Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS). Her writing appears...

Professor Sadiah Qureshi is a historian of science, race and empire, currently holding a Chair in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the...

Harriet Tyce is the million-copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of four novels. She grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at...

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology...

Nick Hayes is a writer, illustrator and print maker who lives on the Kennet and Avon canal. His most recent book, The Book of Trespass, was published by Bloomsbury, 2020. It is a non-fiction...

Paul Addison was a historian and writer, and Honorary Fellow of History at the University of Edinburgh. He began teaching at Edinburgh after studying at Oxford, and was for many...

Farhi's novels include Children of the Rainbow, Journey through the Wilderness and Young Turk. Children of the Rainbow received the “Amico Rom” from the Associazione Them Romano of Italy (2002); and the “Special”...

Sumia was born in London in 1992. She received her Creative Writing and Television Studies BA with honours from Kingston University in 2013 and then went on to work in...

Dr James Canton is Director of Wild Writing at the University of Essex. His most recent book, Grounded, was a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. He is also the author of...

Lucy grew up in Lincolnshire, UK where she still lives now with her husband and two rescue dogs. After studying BA(Hons) Illustration at Norwich University of the Arts, she decided...

Samantha Clark is a writer and visual artist based in Orkney. She was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2018, and a Cove Park Emerging Writers Award...

Fifi grew up in Taiwan and studied Landscape Architecture Design at FuJen Catholic University. She still loves to draw buildings, but having completed the MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge...

Neil Ansell has travelled in over fifty countries and written for the Guardian, The New Statesman and The Big Issue. He was also an award-winning television journalist with the BBC. His...

Araminta Hall has worked as a writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel, Everything & Nothing, was published in 2011 and became a Richard & Judy read that year. Her...

Helen Jukes is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings, a Book of the Year in BBC Countryfile, Glamour UK and Slate and a London...

Professor Kristina Spohr works in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. She was the inaugural holder of the Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Chair at the Henry...

Rosie Walsh is the internationally bestselling author of two novels, the global smash hit The Man Who Didn't Call, and The Love Of My Life, a heart-wrenching, keep-you-up-all-night emotional thriller,...

David Guss has published several scholarly books and papers that have emerged from his work as Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University in Massachusetts, as well as some volumes of...

Emily Midorikawa is the joint author of A Secret Sisterhood, a book about the literary friendships between female authors including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. With her...

Jackie Morris is a prize winning, internationally best-selling illustrator, artist and author of over forty children’s books. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for Something...

Juliet Miller is a writer and psychotherapist. She has written books about female creativity, aspects of infertility, voice problems in singers and about artists and sculptors. She did a Creative Writing MA...

Omar is well known for his ability to translate the complexity of life in Pakistan, especially the criminal underbelly of Karachi, into nail biting crime fiction. Declan Walsh in the...

Kerry Egan is a hospice chaplain and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School. Her hospice work has been featured on PBS and CNN, and her essays have appeared in Parents,...

Rosamund Urwin is the media editor of the Sunday Times. She was previously the paper's Brexit correspondent and broke the story about 'Operation Yellowhammer', the leak of papers setting out the...

Jay Kristoff is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy. He grew up in the second most isolated capital city on earth and fled...

Beth Lynch grew up in rural East Sussex, where she became a gardener at a young age. She read English at Cambridge, ultimately completing a doctorate in seventeenth-century literature. For...

Stanley Donwood is an artist and writer. He has worked with Radiohead since 1994. His evocative and haunting imagery has created their distinctive visual identity. He has created the official...

Emma Jane Kirby was educated at Chelmsford County High School for Girls and then at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (BA Hons English Lang and Lit). She was with...

Amie Kaufman is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of young adult fiction. Her multi-award winning work has been published in 30 countries, and described as “a game-changer”,...

Nick Butterworth is a British writer and illustrator of children’s books whose books have been published in thirty languages worldwide, with international sales in the region of fifteen million. His...

Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist. She was Deputy Editor of NME.com and previously at the Daily Telegraph. She won the Society of Author’s Roger Deakin Award for Foxes...

Professor Sulmaan Wasif Khan is the Denison Chair of International History and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Yale University. His first book,...

Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her book Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion was published in 2014 by Pluto Press and won the 2015 ICA Bookshop...

Ben is best known as 'Mr Bloom' from CBeebies' RTS award winning series, Mr Bloom’s Nursery – which he also created and wrote for. Bloomsbury published his first picture book, Look...

Bina Shah was born in Pakistan and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Karachi. She graduated in Psychology, did her Masters in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and is...

Kathryn Maris was born on Long Island, later moved to New York City and now lives in London. She received a BA in English literature from Columbia University, an MA...

Caroline Eden is a writer contributing to the travel, food and arts pages of the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book Samarkand: Recipes and...

Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist whose work has been translated into many languages. His most recent novel, Rare Singles,  was selected as a book of 2024 by the...

Allie Rogers lives in Brighton with her partner and two children. Her debut novel Little Gold is a deeply affecting, coming of age novel. It was published by Legend Press in 2017. Her...

Joanne Baker is chief opinion editor at the international science journal Nature, where she has worked for more than 15 years. Before that she was earth and space science editor...

Fred Pearce has spent a lifetime exploring the geography of the planet as an environmental and science journalist. He has reported on environment, science and development issues from 80 countries...

Sylvia Victor Linsteadt is an author, a scholar of ancient history and myth, and certified wildlife tracker. She studied Literary Arts at Brown University, graduating with Honors in 2011. She is...

Born and educated in Scotland, Alexander Maitland is an author, artist and lecturer. His watercolours have been exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute and the Royal Academy, besides annual exhibitions in...

Frankie Unsworth is a London-based food stylist and writer. After studying languages at university, she worked as a writer for an Italian food magazine, before studying Patisserie at Le Cordon...

James Macdonald Lockhart is an associate editor of, and regular contributor to, Archipelago Magazine and a literary agent at Antony Harwood Limited. Raptor: A Journey Through Birds received The Royal...

Dr Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new...

Claire Scobie is an award-winning British journalist and author who has lived and worked in the UK, India and now Sydney. Her travel memoir Last Seen in Lhasa (Random House)...

Tom Bell lives in Kathmandu and has reported on Nepal for over ten years, for the Daily Telegraph and The Economist and more recently for Al Jazeera, The Times and the...

Dan Boothby was born in 1969 and grew up in a commune in Norfolk. He has travelled extensively and studied Arabic at Durham University and L'Institut Francais d'Etudes Arabes de...

Dan Gretton is a writer, activist and teacher. In 1983 he co-founded the pioneering political arts organisation Platform, in Cambridge, where he studied English literature. As well as working with...

Charles Foster's books include Being a Beast (2016), which is a New York Times Bestseller, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford and Wainwright Prizes and won the IgNobel Prize for Biology and...

Robert Macfarlane is a best-selling, multi-award-winning author who is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His work has been widely adapted for film, music, television, stage...

The Australian newspaper has described Charlotte Wood as "one of our most original and provocative writers.” She is the author of five novels and a book of non-fiction. Her novel, The Natural Way of...

‘Take a human being. Lean it gently on the earth and let it listen awhile. Ask it then what are the good words and true. And, like a fundamental law...

Nik Southern founded Grace & Thorn in 2011, beginning her journey from a studio on the Kingsland Road, Dalston. Born from Nik’s desire to create florals that defied all traditions...

In 2015, Yanis Varoufakis became the world's most prominent opponent of austerity when, as finance minister of Greece, he refused to accept the terms of the loan agreement dictated to...

Get ready for the run of your life. Join 2 million runners on an epic adventure! You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely...

Anna Kavan (1901-1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Born Helen Woods, her early novels were published under her married name, Helen Ferguson, but after the first...

Wajahat Khan lives in Islamabad and writes for The Times and reports and produces for NBC News, America’s largest news network. He previously reported for CNN and regularly contributes to the BBC and has been often...

Paul Kingsnorth is the author of One No, Many Yeses (Free Press, 2003) and the highly-acclaimed Real England (Portobello, 2008). Both were political travelogues which explore the impact of globalisation on local...

Rosie Wellesley is an author, illustrator and doctor in East London. She studied Fine art at L’ecole des Beaux Arts in Aix en Provence and then The Ruskin School of...

Professor Helen Parr is a historian of modern Britain, currently based at Keele University. She studied at Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London, where she took her Ph.D. Before...

Kate Morton grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland and now splits her time between London and Australia. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in...

Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer, hailed as one of the UK's most original voices on the nature, place and people. His second book, Common Ground (PRH; 2015) was shortlisted for the Portico,...

David Nott is one of the world's foremost experts in the field of combat and trauma surgery. A consultant general and vascular surgeon affiliated with several London hospitals, David has...

Alan Allport is a British historian whose work focuses particularly on the impact of war on society. He was born in the UK but moved to the United States in...

Yasmin's book The Saffron Kitchen gives a brilliant insight into Khomeini's Iran and the consequences for Iranians in exile. Yasmin was first published in English by Little, Brown, and then...

Mark Burnell is the author of The Rhythm Section, the first novel in a series featuring Stephanie Patrick, a professional killer who works for British intelligence. Now a major motion...

Julia Lovell is lecturer in modern Chinese history at Birkbeck, University of London, a brilliant translator of Chinese literature, and the author of a number of acclaimed works on Chinese...

Guruprasad Madhavan is a program officer and study director at the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council – collectively known as...

Bethan Roberts was born in Abingdon. Her first novel, The Pools, was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second novel, The Good Plain Cook, published...

Jean McNeil is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, but has lived in London for 25 years. She is a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been shortlisted...

Richard Surman is a British writer and photographer who divides his time between Asturias, northern Spain, and London, where he lives in and curates one of London's most eccentric historic...

Xinran is a British–Chinese author, journalist and activist. Her first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, sold in over thirty languages and became an international bestseller....

Rachel Seiffert was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bilingually. She has lived mostly in Oxford and Glasgow, and after a short period...

Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006) was a Russian journalist, writer and activist who was well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflicts and to the regime of President Putin. She received many...

Born in 1889, Howard Spring spent twenty years as a journalist before publishing his first book, Darkie and Co, in 1932.   His best-known work, Fame is the Spur, the story of a...

Professor Sir Christopher Bayly (C. A. Bayly, 1945–2015) was one of Britain's most distinguished post-war historians of Asia and Empire. He broke new ground in his pioneering use of local...

Margaret Powell (1907–84) was the author of a bestselling account of her life working 'downstairs', in service. Below Stairs was one of the inspirations for the very successful and long-running...

Patrick Marnham is a journalist, biographer and screenwriter. His biographies have covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon (The Man Who Wasn't There, winner of the Marsh Biography...

Elizabeth McKenzie is an author whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Her novel The Portable Veblen...

Meredith Hooper is a lecturer, historian, Antarctic expert and full-time writer of non-fiction and fiction for children and adults. She grew up in Australia and after graduating in history from...

Ted Lewis (1940–82) was a British writer for television and of crime fiction. His first novel, All the Way Home and All the Night Through, was published in 1965. This...

Karen Joy Fowler is the bestselling author of several novels and short story collections, spanning the genres of literary fiction, science fiction and fantasy. Her novels include Sarah Canary, Sister...

Boris Fishman was born in Belarus and immigrated to the United States when he was nine years old. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, The Wall...

John Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge, where he completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was published in...

John Carey is an author and literary critic, and since his retirement has been emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He has twice chaired the Booker...

Bernard Cornwell is the most successful author of historical fiction of recent years. He is the author of several bestselling historical series, including his novels featuring rifleman Richard Sharpe set...

Tim Clissold was educated at Cambridge University and lived and worked in China for more than twenty years. He has had various business ventures in the country and is the...

E.K. Johnston had several jobs and one vocation before she became a published writer. If she’s learned anything, it’s that things turn out weird sometimes, and there’s not a lot...

Professor Jon Lawrence works on modern British social, cultural and political history, and is now based at the University of Exeter. He has previously taught at University College, London, the University...

Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, writer and journalist. He is the author of five novels and several non-fiction books: The United States of Anger, drawing on...

After two decades spent living and working in the developing world as a journalist, lecturer and policy advisor, Dr John Rapley returned to the UK in 2012. The author of...

Anne-Marie Casey is a screenwriter, novelist and playwright. She was a successful producer in Film and TV in the UK before becoming a writer full time. She has written numerous scripts...

Isabel Hardman is Assistant Editor of the Spectator and presenter of Radio 4’s The Week in Westminster. She regularly writes political columns for a number of other publications, including The...

Kate Worsley's first novel, She Rises, won the HWA Debut Crown for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Prize in the US. She was born in Lancashire,...

John J. Johnston is an Egyptologist, Classicist and cultural historian. His introductory essay for the anthology Unearthed (Jurassic London), addressing the cultural history of the mummy in literature and film,...

John Campbell is one of Britain's leading political biographers. Born in 1947, he was educated at Edinburgh University and took his Ph.D. there in 1975. His first book, Lloyd George: The...

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945 but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She started work at a publisher and then, aged 17, went to work as...

Tim Winton has published thirty books for adults and children. His work has been widely translated and adapted for film, television, stage and radio. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won...

Emma Claire Sweeney has won Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards, and has been shortlisted for several others, including the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish. She teaches creative writing...

Gao Xingjian (b. China 1940) is the first Chinese-language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible and the short stories collected...

David Wojtowycz took an art foundation course at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and an MA at the Chelsea College of Art &...

Nadia Roden is an award-winning artist, illustrator and cook. In 2011, her imaginative ice lollies created a sensation in New York – they were featured as the hottest new trend in...

James left Warwick University in 1974 with a degree in English and American Literature and began a career as an actor working in regional theatre companies including, Hull Truck Theatre...

Alex is an acclaimed TV scriptwriter and was lead writer for Sir Gadabout The Worst Knight, amongst various series. Sir Gadabout won an Indie Award and Alex himself won Best Writer...

John Wyndham was born in the West Midlands in 1903. He tried a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and starting writing short stories in 1925....

Dr Hope Wolf is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Sussex University. She holds a Ph.D. from King's College, London, and her doctoral research focused on archives at the...

Accidentally born in the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, Mary Woronov grew up in New York and attended Cornell University. Following her first love, painting, she became a part...

Jon Wilson is a historian of South Asia and the world beyond, who is currently Professor of Humanities and Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at...

Barbara Willard (1909–94) was a writer of historical children's fiction. Among her best-known works are the 'Mantlemass Chronicles', including The Lark and the Laurel (1970). She wrote many other novels...

T. H. White was born on 29 May 1906 in Bombay, India, where his father was a member of the Indian Civil Service, and was educated at Cheltenham and Queen's...

Shortlisted in 2013 for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Festival, Liam Williams is a stand-up comedian, host of Invisible Dot's Stories night, and one-third of comedy sketch troupe Sheeps. His show...

Andrew T. Williams is a professor of law at the University of Warwick, where he directs the Centre for Human Rights in Practice. He has been involved in human rights work...

Polly Williams grew up in Oxford and studied English at Manchester University. At the age of 23, she set up and edited her own successful fashion magazine Scene, and went...

See the past like you wouldn't believe . . . Wolfgang Wild is the creator and curator of the Retronaut website, a repository of 'disruptive' photography from the very earliest days...

A poet, novelist and religious thinker, Charles Williams (1886–1945) was the author of works such as War in Heaven, Descent into Hell and He Came Down from Heaven.  ...

An accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize – for his 1928...

Bernard Wasserstein was born in London in 1948 and educated in Glasgow and Leicester. He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. His academic positions have included: Visiting Fellow, All Souls...

Described by J. B. Priestley as the ‘Jane Austen of the twentieth century’, Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966) was the author of nine successful novels, as well as numerous short stories and...

Jenny Valentine is an award winning writer for Young Adults.  Her first novel Finding Violet Park won the Guardian prize in 2007 and since then she has written six more,...

Philip Webb's first novel Six Days was published in 2011 by Chicken House.  This futuristic adventure is a most striking, original and exciting debut. Where the Rock Splits the Sky,...

Martin Waddell was brought up in London and in Newcastle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, where he now lives. His first ambition was to be a professional footballer and he played for...

Stephen Walsh is a leading English writer and broadcaster on classical music, the author of several books on Igor Stravinsky including a major two-volume biography, a large-scale study of the...

Keith Waterhouse was one of Britain's most distinguished and popular writers, whose work spanned television, cinema, theatre, and journalism. His plays included the classic Billy Liar and highly acclaimed Jeffrey Bernard...

Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. After training at the Press Association, she spent eleven years at the Guardian as a news reporter...

James Ward is a London-based blogger and writer who chronicles the mundane and the everyday on his blog, I Like Boring Things, which has been featured in the Independent, the Observer and on...

Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her debut, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels to feature Josephine Tey...

A few years ago, sitting in an office, Tilly had an overwhelming urge to go and make something. On a whim, she signed up to a sewing class . ....

Harry Wallop has been a journalist at The Daily Telegraph since 2004, writing features, news and business stories for the paper. He was named as Consumer Affairs Journalist of the year...

Lucy Wadham was born in London and educated at Oxford University before moving to Paris in 1989 where she became a freelance journalist, writing about France for the British Press....

Novelist, poet, critic and essay writer Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She has received many awards for her writing, including the Radcliffe Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her...

Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer, translator and travel writer. (By day he teaches French at the University of York.) His most recent publication is a biography of Gustave Flaubert...

Ann Turnbull has been writing children's fiction since 1974. Her particular interests are history and fairy tales, but her work is varied and includes magic, mystery, adventure and family relationships. Pigeon...

Geoffrey Trease was born in Nottingham in 1909. While at school he produced his own British Boys' Magazine. This featured "stories of adventure and British pluck from all corners of...

Lynne Truss began her writing life as a literary journalist, editing the books section of the Listener magazine between 1986 and1990. Since then she has kept a high profile as...

Brian Viner is a writer and journalist, and film critic for the Daily Mail. He is the author of seven books: Tales of the Country (2005), recently adapted for the...

Theresa spent much of her childhood living in North Yorkshire and Cleveland. Having qualified as a teacher, she spent five years working in primary schools, before leaving to look after...

Frances Thomas was born in Wales during the war, but brought up in South London. She was educated by nuns who told her she would never get into University, but...

Peter Tonkin retired after 42 years as a teacher of English, History and Law, which he also examined at Advanced level, in July 2016. During that time 34 of his...

Simon Tolkien was born in England in 1959 and grew up in a small village near Oxford. His grandfather was J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of...

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. After leaving school he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post before deciding to embark on a...

Jake Tilson is an artist, designer, writer and cook. A pioneer of early website design, including award winning website TheCooker, Tilson also founded the influential arts magazine Atlas in 1984. ...

Dr Simon Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a regular broadcaster on television and radio, and was until 2015 the Chief Executive of English Heritage, the government’s principal advisor on...

Reg Thompson lives with his wife, Hilary, and their two sons, Robbie and Harry, in Newport, Essex....

"A historical novelist of genius" - Guardian Rosemary Sutcliff was born in East Clanden, Surrey, England in 1920, and died in Walberton, West Sussex in 1992. Severely disabled by Stills disease, Rosemary was...

First opened by Mike Belben and David Eyre in 1991 'The Eagle' soon had the phrase 'gastropub' coined after it. Since first opening, a steady stream of highly talented chefs...

Joss Stirling also writes under the pen names of Julia Golding and Eve Edwards. She is a multi-award-winning writer for children, young adults and, more recently, adults. Former British diplomat and...

Jeremy Strong (1949-2024) published over a hundred children’s books in the course of a career spanning six decades. He excited and inspired generations of young readers - and reluctant readers...

Josephine Tey is one of the best known and best loved of all crime writers. She began to write full time after the successful publication of her first novel, The...

Lulu Taylor is the author of engrossing novels with entwined story lines in the past and present, encompassing family secrets, relationships and mysteries, in vivid and evocative settings. After studying...

Kevin Telfer is an author, journalist, digital copywriter and photographer. He is the author of Peter Pan's First XI (2010), picked by the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and Wisden Cricketer...

Kate Taylor is one of UK's best-known sex columnists. As a regular contributor to radio, TV and national press she wrote the "Sex Life" Column for GQ from 1998-2002, co-wrote and presented...

Vanessa Tait studied English at Manchester University, and completed a diploma in Journalism at City University as well as a Masters in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths. She has...

Alan John Percivale Taylor was born in Lancashire in 1906. After studying at Oriel College, Oxford, he became a lecturer in modern history at Manchester University. In 1953 he returned...

Terence Strong spent his childhood in post-war south London, playing in the blitzed bomb-sites and running the gauntlet of the brown-uniformed keepers in Battersea Park. Inspired by Biggles, Buchan, Bulldog...

Meagan Spooner was born in Washington, D.C., where she grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day. Her parents, despite both of them being rational, logical lawyers,...

Formerly a lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University, Sir Hew Strachan is now Professor of...

Major-General John Strawson served with the 4th Queen's Own Hussars – Winston Churchill's Regiment – during the Second World War in the Middle East and Italy, and afterwards in Germany and Malaya....

Gertrude Stein was born in Pennsylvania in 1874 but spent much of her life in Paris where she had joined her brother in 1902 and remained until her death. From...

Fiona Stanford has been an Army wife for fifteen years, and has moved eleven times since her wedding day. She and her husband Richard have two children. She works as a...

Hilary Spurling was born in Stockport, England, in 1940. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford, she was the arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for the Spectator during the 1960s....

Philip Short is the author of acclaimed biographies of Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and François Mitterrand. He was for many years a foreign correspondent for the BBC in Moscow, Washington...

Muriel Spark originally worked as a secretary and then a poet and literary journalist. She was completely unknown and impoverished until she started her career as a story writer and...

Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and journalist. His previous work includes several collaborations with the historian Anthony Seldon: having led the research on Seldon’s acclaimed biography of Tony Blair, Blair,...

Sir Larry Siedentop was for three decades Fellow of Keble College and Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought at the University of Oxford. Before his death in June 2024, he was...

New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd was “born” into writing, as the daughter of booksellers who raised her behind the counter of their independent bookstore in Western North Carolina....

Prize-winning illustrator and author Nick Sharratt trained at St Martin’s School of Art. He has worked with numerous authors, including Julia Donaldson, Michael Rosen, Giles Andreae, Kes Gray and most...

Rae Smith is a Tony and Olivier award winning theatre designer who trained at Central School of Art and Design and has been designing theatre for 25 years. Currently she...

Sujit Sivasundaram is Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius College. Prior to Cambridge he taught at...

Rachel was the Features Editor at the Daily Telegraph before moving to The National newspaper based in Abu Dhabi. Whist at the Daily Telegraph her weekly column, Household Plc, had...

Sarah Silverwood is the nom de plume of Sarah Pinborough for her YA novels.  The Nowhere Chronicles, an urban fantasy trilogy, is published by Victor Gollancz. Sarah was the 2009 winner of...

Anna Shepard is a journalist who writes the Eco-Worrier column in The Times. She also writes a green living blog (www.timesonline.co.uk/ecoworrier) and contributes to all sections of newspaper, especially Travel, The...

Miranda Seymour is a celebrated novelist and biographer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Former Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches for...

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, after ten years of being in various unsuccessful bands, he ended up working in the computer games industry as a lead games...

Known and respected as the 'Father of Self-Sufficiency', John Seymour's worldwide experience of husbandry and the benefits of rural life was unparalleled. After studying at agricultural college, he worked on...

Claudia Roden was born and brought up in Cairo. She finished her education in Paris and later studied art in London. Starting out as a painter, she was drawn to...

Antonia Senior is a writer and journalist. She writes frequently for the Guardian among other newspapers, and before turning freelance was a leader-writer and then columnist for The Times, as...

Alice Sebold is the author of the memoir Lucky. She has been chosen by the Village Voice as a Writer on the Verge and has written for the New York...

Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England. Noo attended King's College London and Columbia University in New York and is an author and freelance journalist. Her...

Jeffrey Salane grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, but moved north to study at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the New School University. After spending several years playing in...

Paul Scott was born in north London in 1920. During the Second World War he held a commission in the Indian army, after which he worked for several years in...

David Schickler is a graduate of the Columbia M.F.A. programme. He lives in New York. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House and Zoetrope, and his first...

'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit' – P. D. James A refined author with a talent for wry mysteries spiced with quotations of verse and observations about...

Born in London in 1910, Clive Sansom went on to have several of his volumes of both adult and children’s poetry published. He also wrote plays. His love of nature and...

Jane Sanderson was born in South Yorkshire in 1962. She studied English at Leicester University, then after graduating she became a journalist. After a series of jobs with local newspapers...

Lucy Robinson is the author of The Greatest Love Story of All Time, A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger and The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me. Her latest...

Jasmine Richards was born in London, grew up in a library, and was the first in her family to go to university. After graduating from Oxford, and following a brief...

Jane was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and from the age of six was brought up and educated on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. On leaving secondary school she...

Savage Salads is the London-based brainchild of Italian chef Davide and Swedish food enthusiast and former restaurant manager Kristina. Fresh and seasonal ingredients are brought together to create delicious salads...

Fiona Roberton was raised by wolves and has only recently learned to walk upright. After leaving school at 16 she worked and travelled around the world. She studied design in...

Dr John Rowan was a distinguished psychotherapist and the author of a number of books, including Subpersonalities (Routledge, 1990), Healing the Male Psyche (Routledge, 1997), and The Transpersonal: Spirituality in...

Victoria Routledge worked in publishing for three years before her first novel, Friends Like These, was published. She is also the author of Kiss Him Goodbye, ...And for Starters, Swansong,...

Born in Gloucestershire in 1932, Malcolm was educated in Shropshire, Scotland, South Africa, and Bedford before going to Falmouth School of Art and the Slade. He taught English in Sweden,...

Katy Regan was born in 1974 and brought up in the northern seaside town of Morecambe. Her claim to fame - aside from being possibly the only person in the...

When not indulging herself in re-reading Jane Austen’s six novels, Laurie Viera Rigler is a freelance book editor who works with authors of fiction and nonfiction and teaches writing workshops,...

After some years travelling and then working with Amnesty International, Oxfam and Oxford University Press, Sarah graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in...

Amol Rajan is a radio and television presenter for the BBC, working on Radio 4's flagship news programme, Today, as well as Start the Week, Any Answers, and The One Show...

Catherine studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art where, for her final degree show, she created what would go on to be her debut picture book, Augustus and his Smile....

Steve Richards is a political columnist and commentator who has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Independent and the Spectator, among other journals. Previously he was a BBC political correspondent...

Madhvi grew up in London where she studied English and then Creative Writing at university. Her first books for children, three stories about Nina and the Travelling Spice Shed are published by Tamarind...

Chris Renwick is Professor of Modern History at the University of York. He specialises in the history of the social sciences since the mid-nineteenth century, and was the recipient of...

Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author who is published in over 30 territories worldwide. Having published more than 25...

Peter Redgrove was born in 1932 and was a friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. He became one of the most celebrated and prolific post-war poets, regarded...

Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968) served as a Captain during the First World War, winning the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Military Cross (MC). Educated at Leeds University, he became Professor of...

Chris Powling was born in 1943 in south London, where he still lives. He has taught at all levels in the state school system, from infants to postgraduates, and for ten...

Ann Purser lives in a village in Northamptonshire with her husband, the writer Philip Purser. She has run her own Art Gallery, worked in a village school, kept donkeys, chickens,...

Liz Pichon studied graphic design at Camberwell School of Art in London. She then joined the music industry as an Art Director for Jive Records. Liz went freelance to develop her...

Jane Pugh is a writer for screen, stage and page Jane’s empathetic but challenging, character based dramas have been described as ‘Fantastic and moving’ (Kneehigh Theatre), ‘Exciting and honest’ (Real Ideas Organisation) and By...

Tamora Pierce is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, with 25 fantasy novels for teenagers in print world-wide. Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she...

Mike Power has worked as a freelance investigative journalist for British newspapers and organisations including the Guardian, Lonely Planet, the Mail on Sunday, Sunday Herald, DrugScope and the Big Issue....

John Pilger was one of the world’s most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His books include Heroes (1986), Distant Voices (1992), Hidden Agendas (1998), The New Rulers of the...

The English author Anthony Dymoke Powell was born on 21 December 1905. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where he met several other young writers including Evelyn...

Timothy Phillips is the author of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 (Granta 2008). He grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London. He holds a doctorate in Russian...

Ellie Phillips is a children's writer.  Her first novel, Dad's Geeks and Blue-Haired Freaks was published by Egmont in 2012 and its follow-up, Scissors, Sisters and Manic Panics followed in 2013. Her childhood home was a flat...

Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Whales Came, Private Peaceful, Shadow,...

Before his death in January 2018, Nicholas Phillipson was Honorary Research Fellow in History at Edinburgh, where he had taught since 1965. He held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa,...

Penelope Shuttle is a well-known poet and novelist. Her Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and the collection she wrote following her husband's death, Redgrove's Wife (Bloodaxe Books),...

Harry Pearson was born in 1961 in a village near Middlesbrough. He was educated by kindly Quakers. An early attempt to become a journalist foundered because his spelling wasn't good...

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book, A Parcel of Patterns, the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels, and the...

S. K. Perry is a fiction writer and poet from Croydon.  In 2013 she was long-listed for London’s Young Poet Laureate and was Cityread Young Writer in Residence in Soho...

Author of over 100 books, including novels, biographies of characters as diverse as Charlie Chaplin, Alexander the Great, Lenin and Dostoevsky; history books on subjects including Christianity, Communism, Buddhism, India,...

Derek Parker was born in Cornwall. After working in provincial newspapers and independent television he concentrated for over a decade on radio, writing and presenting many programmes on the arts...

Peter Oborne is an award-winning journalist, author and commentator on politics for television and radio. He has worked as Political Editor of the Spectator, chief political commentator for the Daily...

Julia was born in Plymouth and after attending Plymouth College of Art studied ballet and danced professionally as part of the famous Tiller Girls troupe. She later taught art at...

Kachi Ozumba is the winner of the 2006 Decibel Penguin Short Story Prize, Regional Winner for Africa of the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition and he holds an MA (Distinction)...

Jeanette Orrey was catering manager at St. Peter's Primary School, East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, for fourteen years. In 2000, rebelling against the poor quality of centrally supplied ingredients, she chose to...

Johan is an author, commentator and documentary-maker. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, and author of the award-winning In Defence of Global Capitalism. His book Progress:...

Jenny Nimmo studied drama and then taught English in Italy. She joined the BBC and worked as a director/adaptor for children's programmes. Her first novel, The Bronze Trumpeter, was published in 1975....

Kate O’Brien was born in Limerick in 1897. On graduating from University College, Dublin, she worked as a journalist in Manchester and London and then as a governess in Spain....

Tom Norrington-Davies Is a cook and writer. After studying for a degree in Drama at University of Wales (followed by a bizarre spell dubbing kung fu movies in Hong Kong)...

Norman Nicholson was born in Millom, Cumbria, in 1914 and lived there, with a single interruption for the rest of his life. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry...

Fraser Nelson is a journalist and columnist for The Times. He was editor of the Spectator magazine from 2009 until its sale in 2024. He is a board member of...

Alix Nathan was born in London and educated there and at York University where she read English and Music. She has lived in Norwich, Munich, Philadelphia, Birkenhead and now in the...

John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and leader of the Faculty of Technology's "Going Digital" project. He is also a Fellow of...

Nicola Moon was born in 1952 in Bristol. A few years later her family moved to a small village in Yorkshire. She remembers an idyllic childhood of sunshine, adventures and,...

Pete Morgan's first full-length collection of poetry appeared from Secker & Warburg in 1973. In 1976 he was one of a team of six British poets invited to tour the United...

Sarah Mlynowski started writing books when she was three years old. Kind of. She would tell them and her mom would transcribe them. They were all about Princesses named Sarah....

Kenneth O. Morgan, Baron Morgan of Aberdyfi, has been one of Britain's leading modern historians for over forty years. He was Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1966 to...

Victoria Moore has been writing about drinking since 1998. Since then she has been a regular contributor to the New Statesman, the Guardian and the Daily Mail. Victoria is a wine correspondent for the...

Myfanwy Millward was brought up in Mid Wales and began writing for children when she was a teenager looking for ways to entertain her younger cousins. After studying Film and...

Tony Mitton spent much of his early childhood abroad before going to a state boarding grammar school. He went on to do a degree in English at Cambridge. After graduation he...

Louise Millar was brought up in Scotland. She began her journalism career in mainly music and film magazines, working as a freelance sub-editor for Kerrang!, Smash Hits, the NME and Empire....

After studying illustration at Falmouth College of Arts, Tom landed a job as the political cartoonist at the Western Morning News, where he spent nine years happily caricaturing the good,...

Mary Midgley was a professional philosopher specialising in the relations between humans and the rest of nature, and in the troubled frontier between science and religion (particularly in cases where...

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford;...

Kirsty is a former actor who was born in the U.K. but spent many wicked awesome years in Boston, MA. She now lives in the hills of Northumberland, England with...

Andy McSmith was for many years Senior Writer for the Independent newspaper, having previously been a political correspondent on the same paper, as well as Political Editor of the Independent on...

Alexander McCall Smith CBE was born in Zimbabwe in 1948 and educated there and in Scotland. He enjoyed a distinguished career as Professor of Medical Law at Edinburgh University, and...

Born in 1951 in North London, Geraldine McCaughrean took an education degree but worked instead in magazine publishing for ten years before becoming a full-time writer. She now lives in...

Michael McCarthy, formerly the Independent’s longstanding Environment Editor, is one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment and the natural world. He has won a string of awards for his...

Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge, having previously worked at Queen Mary, University of London. She studied for her first degree...

Peter May was a Scottish Young Journalist of the Year in 1973 and has gone on to become one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists, with more than 1000 writing...

FILM Freestyle - UK Cinematic Release 2010. Director: Kolton Lee; Producer: Lincia Daniel. Teen movie about a suburban girl who uses the world of freestyle basketball to fight prejudice and win the heart of...

Simon Mason was born in Sheffield in 1962. He was educated at local schools and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He is the author of three novels of...

Sadie Matthews is the author of six novels of contemporary women's fiction published under other names. In her own work, she has described decadent worlds of heady escapism and high...

Greil Marcus is the author of Double Trouble, Dead Elvis, Lipstick Traces, The Old, Weird America and Mystery Train. His pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications, including...

Amber has presented academic papers on surveillance to the Ministry of Defence and the annual Crime Justice and Surveillance conference at Sheffield University. Her academic paper on the legal implications...

Jan Mark was an astute writer of fiction for all ages. She won the Carnegie Medal twice, for Thunder And Lightnings and Handles; the Angel Literary Award for Feet And Other...

Marianne Macdonald was born in the lumber town of Kenora, Northern Ontario, and grew up in Winnipeg and Montreal. Her first children's book was published when she was 16. She took...

Olivia Manning was born in Portsmouth, and spent much of her youth in Ireland. She married R. D. 'Reggie' Smith (a British Council teacher and later a BBC radio producer)...

Louis MacNeice was born on 12 September 1907 in Belfast. He attended Oxford, where he majored in classics and philosophy. In 1930, he married Giovanna Ezra and accepted a post...

Tim Lott was born in 1956 in Southall, West London. He was educated at the local grammar school and worked on local newspapers before becoming a music journalist and a...

Dame Vera Lynn was one of our most revered recording artists. Dubbed 'The Forces' Sweetheart' because of her tireless work entertaining the troops during the Second World War, she came...

Robert Lyndon is the author of Hawk Quest, an epic adventure story set in 11th century Europe. It was published on the 4th of January 2012 by Little, Brown. Ben Kane wrote of it that...

James Lees-Milne (1908-97) was the first Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. He was instrumental in their acquisitoin of such splendid and much-visited properties as Attingham, Charlecote, Knole, Petworth,...

Joanna Lumley was born in Kashmir in 1946 and came to England as a young girl to complete her schooling at St Mary’s School in Sussex. She spent three years...

Saci Lloyd was born in Manchester, but raised in Anglesey where she spent a lot of time lost in nature or down by the shore. Saci returned to Manchester as an...

Jo Lodge is an illustrator and a paper engineer and was greatly influenced by her artistic parents - her mother Maureen Roffey, an illustrator and her father Bernard Lodge, a...

Penelope Lively is a novelist, short story writer and author of children's books. Her novels have won several literary awards, including the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger in 1987. The...

Basil H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) was a military historian and is considered among the great military strategists of the twentieth century. He served as an officer in the British Army...

Writer and human rights activist Emanuel Litvinoff was one of the best-known and most highly regarded figures in post-war Anglo-Jewish literature. He wrote novels, short stories, poems and plays, and...

The Rt Hon. David Lammy has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Tottenham since June 2000. Before the Labour Party's defeat in the 2010 General Election he served as...

Joan Lingard was the author of fourteen novels for adults and more than forty books for children. She was born in Edinburgh but grew up in Belfast. Both cities provided...

Poet, translator, publisher and founder of the Fanfrolico Press, Jack Lindsay was the author of numerous works of fiction, history, cultural anthropology, drama and biography. He was an important contributor to...

Hugh Laurie was educated at Eton and Cambridge University where, as well as rowing in the 1980 Oxford/Cambridge boat race, he was also heavily involved in the Footlights Dramatic Club,...

Jeremy Lee joined Sam & Eddie Hart at Quo Vadis in Soho in early 2012, becoming Chef Proprietor of this venerable restaurant. Jeremy had previously manned the stoves of Blueprint...

Marghanita Laski was born in 1915 to a family of prominent Jewish intellectuals in Manchester; Harold Laski, the socialist thinker, was her uncle. After working in fashion she read English at...

John Kralik was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the University of Michigan for college and law school. He practiced law for 30 years, and was a partner in the...

June Knox-Mawer was a writer and broadcaster. She was a presenter on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and wrote and presented a number of documentary programmes. She was selected by The Times...

Born in 1895, Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin read classics at Oxford University and, after serving in France during the First World War, became a barrister in 1924. Probably best known for...

Anna Kemp writes picture books and middle-grade fiction. Her books have been nominated for a number of prizes including the Booktrust Early Years Award (2010), The Roald Dahl Funny Prize...

Bert Kitchen studied at the Rochdale School of Art and at the end of his course there, moved to London and attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts where...

David Clive King was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1924. In 1926 he moved with his parents to a farm in Kent, alongside which was an abandoned chalk-pit, which later became...

Paul Kennedy is Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, and internationally known for his writings and commentaries upon global political, economic and strategic issues. Born...

Professor Anthony King was one of our foremost political commentators and psephologists for many years. Professor of Government at the University of Essex, he was the author and co-author of many...

Michael Kimball's books include The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us Three There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated...

Anna Keay OBE is a historian, writer and presenter. She is the Director of the Landmark Trust, and has previously worked for English Heritage as Properties Presentation Director. Before that...

Rachel's unconventional food background helped formulate her unique culinary touch. The daughter of a Malaysian Chinese father and an Austrian mother, Rachel grew up in Croydon before graduating with a...

Keyes was born in Dartford in 1922, the son of an army officer. He was brought up largely by his grandfather and was educated at Dartford Grammar School, Tonbridge School...

Laura Kemp started writing to get out of doing a real job. A journalist for 15 years, she turned freelance after having a baby because she couldn’t get out of the...

John Keay is the author of numerous classic histories and travel works. He specialises in Asian subjects but lives in Scotland and is co-editor, with his late wife Julia Keay,...

Between 1928 and 1956 Molly Keane published eleven novels under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. The best known of them were Devoted Ladies, Full House and Rising Tide, all published...

Denis Judd was born in 1938. He won a State Scholarship, took his first degree in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. at London University. He is...

M. M. Kaye was born in India and grew up there. After school in England she returned to India and lived there throughout her early married life. She earned international acclaim...

Owen Jones is a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster. His first book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, was published by Verso in June 2011 to...

Alan Judd has written sixteen novels and two biographies. He has also collaborated, with David Crane, on a National Portrait Gallery account of the First World War poets. His first novel,...

Born talking - allegedly - Julia Jarman was soon telling stories, and decided to be a writer when she was eight. She became stage-struck at school, and went on to...

Marianne Kavanagh has worked on a number of UK magazines, including Woman, the Tatler and the Telegraph’s Saturday magazine. She joined the launch team of Marie Claire, became deputy editor,...

Mireille Juchau is an award-winning Australian novelist. The World Without Us, her third novel, was published by Bloomsbury in Australia, UK and the US. In 2016 it won the Victorian...

Jimmy Rice is a sports journalist. Laura Tait is a writer for Shortlist and Stylist magazines. Jimmy and Laura met studying journalism at Sheffield University in 2002, so sitting in pubs...

Julian Jackson is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London, and one of the foremost British scholars of twentieth-century France. His magisterial life of Charles de Gaulle, A...

Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, Canada and brought up around Llangoed, Ynys Mon where he currently lives. He completed a PhD thesis on Pacific and American literature from King's College,...

Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A Sunday Times bestseller, she is one of the Top 10 Female Fiction authors in the UK, and...

William Hussey is the critically acclaimed author of over a dozen novels. Winner or the Genre Busting Book of the Year Fingerprint Award for Killing Jericho, he has also been...

Poet Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1926 and read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. Her first book was awarded a Somerset Maugham Award, and many other distinctions...

Will Iredale joined The Sunday Times in 1999, working first on the foreign news desk and subsequently the home news desk, where he specialised in undercover investigations. Since 2008 he...

Born in 1922, Richard Hough enlisted with the Royal Air Force in 1941 and after undergoing training in the USA spent World War II as a fighter pilot flying Hurricanes...

Geoffrey Hosking is one of the world's leading historians of Russia. Educated at Cambridge, Oxford and Moscow State universities, he was for many years Professor of Russian History at the...

Langston Hughes (1902–67) was an American poet, novelist, activist and playwright, and a key member of the movement that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance.  ...

Lucy Holland is an author working across the fields of history, mythology and fantasy. Her current interest lies in re-imagining folktales and Celtic myth, with a view to re-situating the...

Born in 1900, Richard Hughes was the author of the world's first radio play, Danger, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast in 1924. Two years later he published the first...

Simon Hopkinson was born in 1954 and grew up in Bury, Lancashire, where his love of good eating was established at the kitchen table. He left school at seventeen to...

Euny Hong is a Paris-based journalist and author with international experience in web, print, and television news. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The...

Belinda Hollyer was born in New Zealand. She lived in the Lebanon and Australia, but spent most of her life in London. She died in 2015. Belinda worked as a teacher, a teacher-librarian...

Ian Holding was born in 1978 in Harare, Zimbabwe and has lived there all his life. His first novel, Unfeeling was published by Simon and Schuster in 2005, and was shortlisted for...

Phil Hogan is a staff writer and TV critic at the Observer. He is the author of four novels and has published a collection of his columns. He is married...

Edward Hogan was born in Derby in 1980 and now lives in Brighton. He is a graduate of the MA creative writing course at UEA and a recipient of the David...

After graduating from New College, Oxford, where he read English, Paul Hoffman worked in over twenty different jobs, including boardman in a betting shop, messenger boy to a City merchant...

Eric Hobsbawm was widely acknowledged as the most important left-wing historian of the twentieth century. Born in Alexandria in 1917, he grew up in Vienna and Berlin in the 1930s. After...

Russell Hoban was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started writing at an early age, winning prizes for his stories and poems during his school years. He served in the US...

Christopher Hibbert was a wide-ranging historian writing mainly on 18th, 19th and 20th century British, Italian and French History. He also wrote splendid history-guide books to London, Venice, Florence and...

Roger is a writer and journalist, who was Assistant Editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme from 1998 to 2010. He began his career on weekly newspapers in Kent and...

James Herriot grew up in Glasgow and qualified as a veterinary surgeon at Glasgow Veterinary College. Shortly afterwards he took up a position as an assistant in a North Yorkshire...

James Herbert was one of the world's top writers of horror fiction and was one of the most influential and widely imitated authors of our time.  Born in London, James...

Emma Henderson was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, London, Somerville College, Oxford, and Yale University, Connecticut. She wrote blurbs for Penguin books for two years, then spent a decade...

Nigel Henbest is a leading science populariser, specialising in astronomy and space. He trained at Leicester University and the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, under the then Astronomer Royal, Sir...

John Heath-Stubbs was born in 1918. He was educated at The Queen’s College, Oxford, where his contemporaries were C. S. Lewis and Tolkien. He published his first poems in the...

Gerald Heard was born on 6 October 1889 in London. He died on 14 August 1971, in Santa Monica, California. Heard, an author, philosopher, and historian of consciousness and its evolution,...

Rook Hastings has been a writer of fiction for eight years. With a life long fascination for the paranormal, Rook has lived in two haunted houses. Once as a child,...

Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since, apart from brief sojourns in Paris, Brussels and Oxford, where she studied...

Dan Healey is Professor of Modern Russian History at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of several books and articles on modern Russia including a history of homosexuality...

Tim Harper is Professor of the History of Southeast Asia and Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University. He has been a fellow of...

A native of Sussex, Henry Harris started his career in the catering industry as a waiter in a small hotel in Brighton. In 1983 he moved back to London and...

Ali Harris lives in Cambridge with her husband and three children. She has a degree in Performing Arts and cites theatre as her third love - after her family and books....

James Hanley was born in Liverpool in 1897 to an Irish Catholic family. He spent the formative years of his youth in the merchant navy and later served with the Canadian Infantry...

Candida Harper grew up in a rather small house with a rather large family in Oxfordshire. As the fourth of five sisters it was often hard to get a word...

Nigel Hamilton was born in 1944, and studied history at Cambridge University. His first major biography, The Brothers Mann, was critically acclaimed both in Britain and the USA, and widely...

John Gribbin is the author of nearly 100 popular science books, including the best-selling In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, and eight science fiction novels. Many of these have been co-authored...

Beth Gutcheon grew up in western Pennsylvania. She was educated at Harvard where she took an honors BA in English literature. She has spent most of her adult life in...

Candy Guard is an author, scriptwriter, director, cartoonist and animator. She established her reputation for comic observation and witty dialogue with 13 award winning animated shorts for Channel 4, the...

Jane Grigson was one of the leading cookery writers of her generation. She was brought up in the north-east of England and took an English degree at Cambridge in 1949. She...

Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) was a poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. He published thirteen collections of his own poetry, as well as compiling numerous anthologies, and writing...

An award-winning poet, editor and biographer, Richard Greene was born in Newfoundland, educated at Oxford, and is now a professor of English at the University of Toronto. His books include Mary...

Mary Gribbin works in education in East Sussex and writes books about science for children. She won the TES Junior Information Book Award for her book Time and the Universe,...

Linda Green is a bestselling author whose novels have sold more than 1.5 million copies and have been translated into 15 languages. Her emotional drama, One Moment, was selected as...

Graham Greene was born in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford he worked for four years as sub-editor at The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth...

George Green was born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Tipperary, where he lived in a house built on an ancient burial mound. His first novel Hound,...

Dominic Green was born in London in 1970. He read English Literature at Oxford University and then became a professional guitar player. He has played and recorded with many world-famous...

Peter Green was born in 1924 and educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he took a double first in Classics. From 1963 to 1971 he lived and lectured...

Laurie Graham published her first novel, The Man for the Job, in 1987. For several years she then focused on journalism, before returning to fiction with The Ten O'Clock Horses in 1996. Her...

Saska Graville has worked as a writer and editor in women's magazines and newspapers for over 20 years, both in London and Sydney. She was the editor of New Woman...

Part of Pip Granger's early childhood was spent in the back seat of a light aircraft as her father smuggled brandy, tobacco and books across the English Channel to be...

Julia Golding was born in Essex. After reading English at Cambridge, she joined the Foreign Office. Then she exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of...

Caroline Graham was born 1931 into a working class family in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and educated at Nuneaton High School for Girls and the Open University. She went on to do...

Andrew Gimson is a political journalist and writer. He is the author of an acclaimed biography of Boris Johnson, the first such study, which has now been updated several times;...

Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by...

Grant Gordon is a musician, radio programme maker and writer. He played drums and bass in The Divine Comedy, and has played in and produced numerous bands over the years...

Elizabeth Goudge was born in 1900 in Somerset. She had a long and distinguished literary career writing novels for adults and children, which were best-sellers throughout the world. She was awarded...

Ralph Glasser spent his childhood and adolescence in the old Gorbals of Glasgow. Taken from school at fourteen he became a barber’s soap-boy and a presser in a garment factory. After...

Victoria Glendinning is a biographer and novelist. She also writes reviews and articles, and does broadcasts and talks on all kinds of subjects. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death...

Guinevere Glasfurd graduated with a Distinction from the MA Creative Writing programme at Anglia Ruskin University. Her stories have appeared in Mslexia, The Scotsman and a National Galleries of Scotland collection....

Jonathan Gibbs is a writer, critic and lecturer based in London. His first novel Randall, or The Painted Grape was published to wide acclaim by Galley Beggar Press in 2014, and has...

Born in Dorset in 1969, Clare had a rural childhood in Essex, Kent and Cheshire before finally making it to London, where she lives in Hackney with her husband. She...

Steven Galloway is a Canadian author whose novels include The Cellist of Sarajevo and The Confabulist. In 2008 he won the Borders Original Voice Award and his work has been...

Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for children of all ages. Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as Britain’s most coveted award for children’s literature,...

Mavis Gallant wrote stories regularly for the New Yorker from 1951 and was one of the most distinguished writers in English. She was born in Montreal and after working as a journalist...

Ryan Gattis is the author of the novel Kung Fu High School—which was acquired by The Weinstein Company, Creative Writing lecturer at Chapman University in Orange, California, co-founder of publishing collective Black...

Stephen Fry was born in London in 1957 and educated at Stout's Hill, Uppingham and Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights where he first met Hugh Laurie....

Susan Gates was born in 1950, in Grimsby, and at 18 she went to Africa to teach in a school in Malawi, before returning to England to study English and...

Jane Gardam was born in North Yorkshire in 1928, where her father was a teacher. She moved to London after the Second World War to read English at Bedford College....

Corina Fletcher is a designer who specialises in pop-up books and paper engineering. She trained in Graphic Design at Central St Martins School of Art and then in Visual Communication...

Catherine Fox is Academic Director of the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her debut novel, Angels and Men (reissued in 2014), was a Sunday Times Pick of the...

Ford Madox Ford was the author of over sixty works: novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and reminiscences. His work includes The Good Soldier, Parade's End, The Rash Act, and Ladies Whose Bright...

Fonteyn's name dominated British ballet for more than forty years. One of the truly great dancers of our time, she was the most famous ballerina of the second half of the...

Theodora Fitzgibbon was born in London and educated in England and France. She was the author of more than thirty books, most of which were about food, and included her encyclopedia...

Ophelia Field's first book - a historical biography of Sarah Churchill, a major political figure during the reign of Queen Anne - was published to critical acclaim in 2002. Her...

Born in 1907, Elizabeth Ferrars was one of the most distinguished crime writers of her generation and may legitimately be regarded as one of the very last authors of detective...

‘He makes history a smart art’ (The Times); ‘In a class of his own for serious scholarship’ (Spectator). Reviewers liken him to Gibbon, Toynbee, Braudel and, as a food writer,...

Helen writes for both children and adults and her credits include Bad Girls, Doctors, Grange Hill, Byker Grove, Dream Team and she was the creator and co-writer of C4's interactive teen...

Author of more than sixty novels, mostly in the crime/mystery genre, J. Jefferson Farjeon was described by Dorothy L. Sayers as being 'unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures'. Recognised...

Margaret was born in Sydney, and then had a childhood of travel with her family. She settled in South London where she has enjoyed bringing up her two children. Her...

Eleanor Farjeon wrote and edited over eighty books for children and adults, including hundreds of poems many of which remain popular in anthologies today. 'Morning Has Broken' and 'Cats' are...

Richard English is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Internationalization and Engagement at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Professor of Politics, and Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell...

Maz Evans is a bestselling, award-winning author – she just doesn’t do either terribly often. She is the proud creator of the Who Let The Gods Out?, Vi Spy and...

John Eidinow was educated at King's School, Worcester and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge where he read law. Between school and university, he did two years National Service in...

Rosy Edwards has just graduated from an MA in Child Therapy, having studied Politics at Durham University and worked in PR.  Her first book ‘Confessions of a Tinderella’ was published...

Eve Edwards has a doctorate from Oxford University and thinks researching a large part of the fun of writing historical fiction. She has visited Tudor houses, attended jousts and eaten Elizabethan...

Jonathan Emmett was born in Leicestershire, the son of a mechanical fitter and a primary school teacher. He trained and worked as an architect but left the profession to become a...

David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and the author or editor of 14 books which have been translated into...

An award-winning documentary-maker and journalist, Mark Easton is the BBC’s Home Editor, appearing regularly on BBC television and radio as well as writing for BBC Online and many newspapers and...

Sarah Ebner is an award-winning journalist who began writing about education after joining The Times in 2008. Her education blog, 'School Gate', later won best commentary at the Online Media...

Jemima was born in Chiswick in 1969, to her dad Ian Dury and her painter mum, Elisabeth Rathmell. She trained as a dancer at the Arts Educational School and worked...

Alison Dye was born and brought up in New York State and was a social worker in New York for several years before moving with her small daughter to Ireland...

Megan studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, graduating in 2006. She won an Escalator award from the New Writing Partnership (now The Writers' Centre Norwich) and her short...

Novelist and dramatist R. F. Delderfield was born in London in 1912. His first job was as a junior reporter on the Exmouth Chronicle, where he worked his way up...

Jonathan Dimbleby is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's flagship programme of topical debate Any Questions? and its twin phone-in programme Any Answers? He has presented ITV's flagship weekly political...

Berlie Doherty has been a compulsive writer of novels, plays, stories and poetry for all ages since 1982.  She has written over fifty books, and is translated into twenty one...

Lucy Diamond was born in Nottingham and has since lived and worked in Leeds, London, Oxford, Sydney, Perth and Brighton. She now lives in Bath with her husband and three...

Sarah Duguid grew up on a farm in North Lincolnshire and was educated in Derbyshire and at Durham University where she read English Literature. After university, she lived and worked...

Marisa de los Santos is a widely published and award-winning poet with degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Virginia and the University of Houston. She teaches English and...

Until his sudden and untimely death in August 2016, Alex Danchev was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His interests wandered across the borders of art, politics, and...

Kady MacDonald Denton is one of Canada's foremost illustrators and winner of the esteemed Governor General's Literary Award for Illustration. Kady graduated from the University of Toronto (Hons. Fine Arts) and...

Lucy Dillon grew up on the edge of the Lake District and read English at Cambridge University. After that she read glossy mags as the office manager of a London...

Nicola Davies started her career as a Zoologist before working for the BBC Natural History Unit for ten years as a researcher and presenter for a number of natural history...

David Daiches MA, DPhil, CBE (1912–2005) was a scholar and writer whose first work was published in the 1930s. His academic career took him to the USA where he taught...

Susie Day has a BA and Masters in English Literature from Oxford University and is still grasping at a doctorate. In the meantime, she works in an international boarding school in Oxford and...

Fred D’Aguiar’s dozen books of poetry and fiction have been translated into a dozen languages. His first novel, The Longest Memory won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was made...

One of the most captivating of the young novelists who illuminated the English literary scene during the 1930s, James Curtis was the author of six novels, five of which were...

Mark Curtis is an independent author, journalist and consultant. He is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and was until recently Director of...

The best-selling author of classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Matilda, Roald Dahl has many times been voted Britain's all-time favourite author and was described...

Morven is a novelist and short story writer. Her story The Big the Beautiful Nanda Gray was published in Work: the Scotsman/Orange Short Story Collection 2006. Her stories have previously...

Born in 1962, Alison Croggon writes in many genres, including fiction, poetry, criticism and theatre.  She has been described by The Australian Book Review as "one of the most powerful...

Matthew Frank is a Kent-based author who works as an architect during non-writing hours. His debut novel, If I Should Die, introduced Trainee Detective Constable Joseph Stark, newly discharged from the...

Jason Cowley is a journalist and author. He was widely credited with transforming the fortunes of the New Statesman during his period as editor between 2008 and 2024. He is...

Amateur chef, professional boozer, poet, traveller and essayist, Milton Crawford is also a fantastic drinker. He states that 'seven days without a drink makes one weak'. He once said that...

Chris Cove-Smith is the author of The River Thames Book, first published in 1996 and now in its fifth edition.  ...

Before her untimely death in February 2020, Heather Couper was a leading international communicator on astronomy and space. She studied astrophysics at Leicester and Oxford Universities and went on to...

Carina lives in the heart of Notting Hill with her four daughters. She has also lived in Australia and New York, where she worked as a photographer's assistant. She has...

Cressida Cowell MBE is the number one bestselling author-illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon, The Wizards of Once and Which Way to Anywhere book series, and the author...

For his many fans and friends Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they knew. He had a unique gift for laughter and he changed the British sense of...

Before becoming a novelist and ghostwriter, Kirsty Crawford was a successful publisher and commissioning editor, becoming Publishing Director of William Heinemann. She commissioned, among many others, first novels from Santa...

J. M. Coetzee is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. Among other honours, he has won...

Alan Connor is a writer, journalist, television producer and sometime presenter, actor and academic. He has contributed to many long-running TV series including Have I Got News for You and...

Five years ago, Andrew's life changed when he started doing the Dad Rules column at the back of Sunday Times Style. It was massively popular and led to Penguin publishing...

Jason was born in Cambridge, grew up in Yorkshire and studied at Bradford and Camberwell Colleges of Art. During his study, he worked as a balloon seller, road sweeper, and cattery...

Trish Cooke has written seventeen books for children including So Much, which won the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award and the Nestle Smarties Book Prize. It was Highly Commended for the...

Marika Cobbold was born in Sweden and is the author of six previous novels: Guppies for Tea, selected for the WH Smith First Novels promotion and shortlisted for the Sunday...

Sir Arthur C. Clarke was born in Somerset in 1917. He authored or co-authored over 100 books of science fiction and science fact, and conceived satellite communications in 1945. Among...

Eve Chase is The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Birdcage, The Glass House, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde, and Black Rabbit Hall, published by Penguin in the UK, Putnam in the US, and translated...

James Hadley Chase (real name René Brabazon Raymond) was born in London in 1906 and started his career as a bookseller. Following the depression, prohibition and the climate of Chicago...

Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His many books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The...

Kitty was born in 1970 to parents who worked in the Foreign Office. She attended thirteen different schools, speaks five languages and became a Brownie Guides egg and spoon champion...

Kathryn Cave was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1948. As the youngest of four children, Kathryn spent her early years being wilfully misunderstood and ignored by her brother and sisters....

Lady Mary Clive, a sister of the late Lord Longford, died aged 102 in March 2010. She had over twelve great-grandchildren and many nephews and nieces. In Christmas With the Savages, which was...

Charles Causley, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, was one of the UK's best loved poets, writing for children and adults. He died on 4 November 2003.  ...

Sally and her Iranian husband, Jamshid, run a small Persian empire in south-east London comprising an import and distribution business, and the fantastic food shop, Persia in Peckham. A university...

Barbara Castle was a Cabinet Minister throughout the Wilson administration, holding portfolios in Overseas Development, Transport, Employment and Social Services. A member of the National Executive Committee from 1950 to 1985...

John Dickson Carr, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn, is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called 'Golden Age'...

Catherine Charley writes non-fiction books for children. Her topics range from tales of tombs and treasure to stories of polar explorers and Everest adventurers. She has also written on art...

Irene Carr was born and brought up on the river in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, in the 1930s. Her father and brother worked in shipyards in County Durham and her mother was...

Alicia Drake is a writer who lived and worked in Paris for eighteen years. She returned to the UK four years ago. Her first book was The Beautiful Fall, a non-fiction...

Alexandra Campbell is the author of five novels on contemporary relationships, The Office Party, The Ex-Girlfriend, The Daisy Chain and That Dangerous Age, plus a family saga, Remember This, all...

Jessica Callan is well versed in all things celebrity. She was at the helm of the most successful gossip column in Fleet Street, 3am in the Daily Mirror, for five...

Few writers have been more versatile, or more prolific, than Anthony Burgess (1917–93): one of the leading novelists of his day, he was also a poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator...

Janet Browne is a historian of biology whose interests range widely over the history of the life and earth sciences and natural history. She is based at Harvard University. Her...

Sir Arthur Bryant was born in 1899 in a house on the Royal Sandringham estate. He served in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Thereafter he wrote hugely...

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia, the children's novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of...

Carys Bray was brought up in a strict Mormon family. In her early thirties she replaced religion with writing and in 2010 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at...

Mike Brownlow writes and illustrates books for children. He's worked with lots of publishers and his books have been translated into many languages. Mike created and writes the best-selling, award winning...

Neville and June Braybrooke enjoyed not merely the closest of marriages but also the closest of literary partnerships. They rarely spent a night away from each other; each rarely wrote...

Amy Bratley's first three novels The Girls' Guide to Homemaking, The Saturday Supper Club, and The Antenatal Group were published by Macmillan. Her next novel, They Call Me the Cat Lady...

After reading English, Sociology and Philosophy at Nottingham and London Universities Gordon Bowker worked as a lecturer as well as writing dramas and documentaries for radio and television. He had...

Klaus Boehm's career has taken him from a progressive school in Kent, through Cambridge University, brief spells with the Royal Artillery and Hotpoint brand management, setting up the Careers Research...

Martin Brown is the cartoonist illustrator of the hugely successful Horrible Histories series. He trained to be an art teacher in his home town of Melbourne before realising it was way...

Hester Browne is a writer and journalist who lives in south west London. Her hugely popular debut romantic comedy of manners, The Little Lady Agency (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) was...

Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) was an English poet, author and critic. Following almost continuous action on the front line between 1916 and 1918, Blunden bore the mental scars of his First...

Steve Benbow is one of the UK's premier beekeepers. He keeps bees all over the country including London where he has hives on the rooftop of Fortnum and Mason, The...

Annie Bell began her career as a chef before becoming a full-time cookery writer and author. Her books include Annie Bell's Vegetable Book, Evergreen (short-listed for the Andre Simon and...

Anne Blankman always wanted to be a writer. When she was eight, she wrote her first mystery series (because her characters were usually bound and gagged for no reason, she...

Elizabeth Berridge was born and educated in London and Geneva. In 1940 she married Reginald Moore, founder and editor of Modern Reading and other wartime literary magazines. When she and her...

Henrietta Branford was born in India in 1946 and spent part of her childhood in Jordan. In 1980 she moved to Southampton with her husband, the photographer Paul Carter and...

'B.B.', or Denys Watkins-Pitchford, was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He studied at the Royal College of Art and was for many years the art master at Rugby School. He wrote...

Andrea Barrett is the author of six novels, most recently The Air We Breathe published by Windmill 2009, and two collections of short fiction, Ship Fever, which received the 1996...

Joe Berger has been producing commercial, editorial and book illustration since the early 1990s, and from 2001- 2021 was co-creator of the weekly Berger & Wyse cartoon in the Guardian...

Aimee Bender is the author of five books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a New York Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000)...

Dr Niall Barr is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at the Defence Studies Department, King's College, London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. Educated at...

Julian Baggini is a philosopher, writer and journalist whose work encompasses a wide range of interests and styles. Julian was awarded a Ph.D. from University College London for his thesis on...

Richard Adams, the son of a country doctor, was born in Newbury in England in 1920. He was educated at Bradfield school and Worcester College, Oxford. He served in the...

Nina Bell’s first published article was shortlisted for the Catherine Pakenham Award, when she was also shortlisted for Vogue Talent Contest. She started editing business-to-business magazines while freelancing for the...

Geraint Anderson AKA Cityboy's column first appeared in thelondonpaper. His book, Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile was published in June 2008 by Headline. Since publication Cityboy has...

I am a director of the company and also Film and TV Agent at Large. I have my own list of screenwriters and dramatists including J Blakeson, Jonathan Brackley and Sam...

In 2017 I  joined DHA following a 15 year career in various creative and commercial roles in the TV industry. Regardless of the job I have always found the most...

I joined David Higham Associates in 2022 and work with a number of the agency’s exciting authors. I was previously an agent at Echo Artists, representing a list of Heads of...

I assist Nicky Lund and Georgie Smith. I graduated from London South Bank University with a degree in Film Studies in 2022. I then went on to gain work experience at...

I started my career as a PA on Mad Max: Furiosa and have since worked across multiple film and television productions. I then moved into agency work, assisting at Cameron’s...

Grace is a London based writer and DJ telling female led stories about the messiness of friendship, identity, and connection always with a banging soundtrack. Her series Clangers is under...

Seb will be a part of the upcoming Royal Court Writer's Cohort for Autumn 2026. Seb’s first play I LOST MY VIRGINITY TO CHOPIN’S NOCTURNE IN B-FLAT MINOR premiered at the...

Ru is a Midlands based writer with a vast array of experiences that give her a unique perspective. Amongst other things, she’s been a teacher, a military officer who’s seen...

Will Miles is a screenwriter with a passion for commercial, character-driven dramas, often darkly comic in tone, always fun, and featuring complex gay characters and West Country settings. His scripts...

Paris Ventour (He/Him) is a North West based screenwriter, who was part of BBC Writersroom’s Drama Room 2022 collective. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 2014 with a First...

Katharina Volckmer is a writer and journalist based in London. She holds a DPhil in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Her first novel The Appointment  was longlisted for...

Amarjit has a passion for telling commercial and accessible stories, particularly little known stories from British Asian communities. In 2024 he received funding from the BFI to develop a feature film...

Isla is a writer and director who is passionate about finding human truth within every story. She has a particular interest in telling stories set in often unseen worlds, and...

Adam Gillen is a screenwriter, playwright and Olivier nominated actor who enjoys creating relatable, complex relationship dramas, focusing on unique, underestimated or marginalised characters. His short film Dog Shit Town was...

Sue worked as an editor in publishing for several years, and then at the BBC before turning to writing full-time. She is a Sunday Times bestselling author under the pen...

Neil’s extensive writing credits for adult and kids' programmes include the multi-award nominated All Creatures Great and Small, multiple series of Waterloo Road, and lead writing the multi-award winning CBBC/Netflix show...

Daniel Brown is a Scottish screenwriter and playwright with a passion for exploring stories about marginalised characters, specifically those who are disabled or have special needs, within different contexts, and in a...

Naomi Alderman grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA. She is the author of four novels: Disobedience, The Lessons, The Liars’ Gospel and The Power. Her first novel,...

Christopher Douglas writes and performs Radio 4's longest running narrative comedy, Ed Reardon’s Week, soon to go into its sixteenth series. The show won the Broadcasting Press Guild’s ‘Radio Programme of...

Jane Pugh is a writer for screen, stage and page. Jane also works as a lecturer at Falmouth University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her online screenwriting...

Michael won the first BAFTA Focus On Talent scriptwriting competition with his original crime drama script “Honour Amongst Thieves”. He went on to win the UK Film’s Council’s 25 Words...

Chris has been a full-time professional writer since 1988, first in radio (his work has won a Writers’ Guild award along with two Sonys) before moving into television. He was a...

Jonathan began his screenwriting career on the continuing drama series River City, for which he was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA in the Writer Film/Television category in October 2016. In 2021,...

Douglas Watkinson began his writing career with a Thirty Minute Theatre for BBC2. In the same year he contributed several scripts to The Onedin Line and Z Cars for which...

Nick has written scripts for stage, television and radio. He has won the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award, the Sandford St Martin Award, the Jerusalem Award and the Tinniswood Award, and has...

Mike is one of the UK's foremost radio dramatists and is also a feature writer and published author. His awards include the Drama Award (World Service) in 2001's Sony Radio...

Florence was born in London in 1988. She studied English Literature at Durham University, graduating in 2010 with a 2:1. She went on to do a Masters in Creative Writing...

Gerard is a leading writer of Children's programmes in the UK with extensive credits across 40 pre-school and middle grade titles, in every genre, for many broadcasters and producers. Credits...

Andy is an Emmy nominated, BAFTA and RTS winning script writer and creator of a number of critically acclaimed children’s programmes including the multi award-winning Class Dismissed. Most recently Andy was...

Barry has worked on some of television's most successful drama series from The Bill and Holby City to Peak Practice and Midsomer Murders. In the early eighties he wrote and...

Watch Katie's award-winning short film YOUR HAND FOUND MINE here.   Katie and Alex write together and separately across a number of mediums and between them they have earned recognition in a...

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Tom Needham is a BAFTA nominated writer for television and theatre. He has over a hundred broadcast commissions amounting to eighty plus hours of television. He is the winner of...

Robin’s work spans Film, Television, Radio and Theatre.  He has been a core writer on numerous television series including Casualty and Eastenders.  Television credits include The Bill, The Royal, Medics...

Ciaran McConville studied at Durham University (English Lit BA 2:1) and Arts Ed (Professional Acting PGDip) and worked on-stage for nine years before joining the Rose Theatre as Director of...

James McCarthy is a screenwriter currently based at Jesus College, Cambridge. He loves writing “heightened genre” pieces where he can add left-field elements to commercial ideas. He also loves historical...

Andrew Lynch has been a writer for television radio and the stage for over thirty years. His radio drama The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was nominated for Best Radio Drama at the...

  Richard has worked as an actor, writer & composer in tv, film & theatre for 25 years. As an actor his films include Downhill, Sightseers & Sense & Sensibility aswell as...

MICHELLE LIPTON has written more than 50 hours of broadcast television and has been on the writing teams for Casualty, Holby City, Hollyoaks, Doctors, Rockets Island, Father Brown, and Sister...

Peter Kerry is a British writer of radio and television drama. He is probably best known for his work on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He co-created the children's comedy series...

Alexi's first play THE PRIDE premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in November 2008 for which he was awarded the Critic's Circle Prize for Most Promising Playwright and the John Whiting...

Ben is best known as “Mr Bloom” from CBeebies RTS award winning series, Mr Bloom’s Nursery – which he also created and wrote for. He has written numerous shows for...

Richard is a novelist and screenwriter, best known for the feature film THE ABDUCTION CLUB, set in Ireland in the late eighteenth century (Pathe 2002). He has been writing and...

Trish Cooke writes for theatre, TV, film, radio and enjoys writing for both adults and children. She is an award winning author and a tremendously talented writer with a diverse and...

Anne-Marie Casey is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist. In 2025 her stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN, produced by Lee Dean and Dan Schumann, and directed by Loveday Ingram,...

Sam and Jon met at school in London in the 1990s, where they became friends, sharing a love of film, television, comedy, science fiction and great storytelling in general. They...

J Blakeson is a film director, screenwriter and producer.   Most recently J made the critically acclaimed 8-part limited TV series CULPRITS  which was released in late 2023 on Disney+ and Hulu. J...

A critical biography of the radical South African author and activist Robin Farquharson. Born in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part of a new wave of...

FALLING IN LOVE SHOULDN'T BE FATAL - UNLESS YOU'RE HEXED, HEARTLESS OR HIDING A DEADLY SECRET . . . Daisy has a secret: she's a Souleater, an outlawed magical being who...

From soft launches to slow fades, love-bombing to ghosting, dating is proving to be as complicated as ever. Luckily Jane Austen is here to help. In Sense and Situationships, Jane delivers hilarious,...

The third and final irresistible adventure in the Compass and Blade trilogy, full of intrigue, sizzling romance, dark magic and monstrous beings. She’s no one’s weapon to wield … Mira is trapped...

How would you live your life differently, if you had a second chance? Emily, Carl and Jules have all ‘gone before their time’. After dying on the same day in Halifax,...

Alexa knows your family better than you do. Now you're about to get to know her... Fifty-two-year-old Michelle Banks is struggling to keep all the plates spinning. She’s a perimenopausal district...

Two best friends. One messy love story. After another horrendous first date, Lizzie decides she is done with the apps. In her search for love she's been out with every dead-beat,...

Daniela Williams is furious. A nasty break up after being cheated on is a crappy way to start the year. What’s worse? Her ex and his new girlfriend are on Daniela’s swim...

Death sneaks up on Onome Odafe. She has little experience of what it means to lose someone she truly loves. So when her sister calls to tell her that their...

Bryony doesn't actually mind being single. So she doesn't understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sleeping with) Ed, who is perfectly fine, but also only okay. After developing the ick...

Daisy Douglas has spent her life behind the scenes: at work, in her relationships, and now, in planning a wedding she isn't sure she even wants. As an entertainment journalist,...

Barri has spent years slaving away as a teacher and covering for colleagues with kids. When her husband vanishes – along with her savings – it’s the final straw. And...

When Ari Shumba and Drew Dlamini meet on New Year's Eve, neither one is looking to fall in love. Ari's the reluctant new captain of Team GB's women's ice hockey team,...

One fateful night in Sparta, a young slave girl encounters a mysterious, grey-eyed princess. Melantho and Penelope, though from different worlds, are instantly connected. But betrayal soon tears them apart. Years...

Seven months after Dandelion’s death, Poppy resurrects her sister’s phone and finds a message from a man on a dating app. Jake. Dandelion delighted in bad behaviour. She pushed Poppy to...

Couple’s therapist Nella Praxitelis knows all about love – in theory. In practice? Not so much. Especially after discovering her boyfriend’s been cheating… just hours before he planned to propose. With her...

One party. One pill. Mothers don't get second chances. Natalie knows her life looks perfect from the outside: Three young children, a loving husband, the tastefully renovated Eastern Suburbs cottage. So...

Deception Island, a sunken volcano, is about to blow – and the scientists studying it need evacuating. It’s a race against time, and nature. But when they land on the island...

The spy game has a brand new player . . . Sarah Black is startlingly smart and super frustrated . . . while her fellow fresh graduates are signing away their souls...

Claudia Roden is credited with revolutionising Western attitudes to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food. Over thirty years on from her first Mediterranean cookbook, Claudia shares the sun-soaked simplicity of the...

With over 80 billion pieces of clothing produced each year and with human-made stuff now outweighing living biomass, this is the story of the first sorting site for the deluge...

An Fia sa Choill tells the love story of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his mysterious wife, Sadhbh, who was transformed into a deer for refusing to marry against her will....

Twelve years ago, Carrie said "I do" on a sun-drenched beach in Thailand. Four hours later, her world shattered when her husband, Johan, was snatched away in a violent abduction....

The memoir of Milo Johnson (Aka Dj Milo) is both a fascinating insight into the life of one of the pioneers of what became known as the Bristol Sound and...

When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had...

In this follow-up to the multi-award-winning Cooking, Jeremy shows you how to make the most of local produce while finding joy in the simple act of being in the kitchen. With...

It begins in a tiny bedsit near the Bastille. Newly arrived from London, Rachel Khoo is trying to make a life for herself in Paris, carrying a British, Chinese-Malaysian and...

MI5's First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats. So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland threaten to expose the ugly side...

This wasn’t meant to happen. But it did. Sofie Jensen knows the safest way to live is by staying in control. And she knows that love can come with a cost. But...

YOUR SECRETS AREN'T SAFE. Ten years ago, Hope left Somerset with a fatal secret and a broken heart. She has spent a decade in the shadows, living a quiet life of...

Even the darkest secrets unravel in time . . . Mimi Mott, celebrated designer and famously private style icon, is auctioning off her legendary estate, intent on telling the true story...

Why do we have so many myths and legends in the West that center long battles or heroic quests, but none that specifically center the journeys of pregnancy and childbirth?...

What was the mood of the British people during the middle and later years of the Second World War? How did they react to the major military and domestic events...

Puzzle solving has never been so deadly. Step into the world of Jack Reacher to solve killer challenges, logic puzzles, and brain teasers with this action-packed puzzle book for adults. ‘I...

Our present-day world of nation states was born by accident. Nation-states haven't been ever-present; nor were they the inevitable outcome of nationalism. Instead, from Indonesia to Iran to the United...

A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, a war criminal and the Einstein of diplomacy – how Henry Kissinger made a name for himself. Henry Kissinger served just under seven years as the...

'First-class. I read it with great interest and fascination' – Jean Ritchie What drives seemingly ordinary individuals to commit unimaginable acts of evil? In the case of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley,...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Establishment, an excoriating take-down of Western hubris – and the book that reveals why we’re really in the state we’re in. Almost everywhere we turn these days,...

Esme's mum would do anything for her, including trying to steal the expensive dolls house that Esme desperately wants. When Mum gets caught, Esme finds out that life in foster...

LONDON, OCTOBER 1775 Lettice Breech is itching to go on another adventure. But her beloved Pa is sick, and their home is in danger. Letty needs money. She needs treasure. So, when a...

Riding on that horse you would need nothing, no cloak even. She dropped it on the edge of the marshland. Nothing. You could travel light. Halla is the daughter of a...

In the spirit of previous volumes, Damien Lewis reveals the untold stories of the war's most daring and audacious escapes as executed by the world's most famous fighting force, the...

Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. A Spectator Book of the Year This life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom. Some people touch the...

Stalin's Apostles is a radical new look at the way five people allowed their obsession with Communist ideology to overshadow any sense of morality or decency – or loyalty to...

The fast-paced, twisting and turning psychological thriller Bestselling crime author Marian Lane is surrounded by adoring readers when she learns that her husband Dane is dead. Marian returns home in shock to...

MURDER WON'T STAY BURIED... While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path. In a rundown seaside...

Gloria has a learning disability. She's nineteen, and there's nothing to do except wander the local parks, look for friendship and keep out of trouble – or go round Jack's....

Bestselling author and artist Luke Adam Hawker explores fatherhood, friendship and what it means to find your voice in an unconventional way. When it became apparent that his son Harry was...

'INGENIOUS . . . PROPULSIVE' Sarah Vaughan 'TRULY ORIGINAL' Ellery Lloyd 'ELECTRIFYING' Fiona Cummins An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice. The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk. When the...

Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is modest and well mannered—a proper young lady who knows her place. But inside, Faith is burning with questions and curiosity....

One thing Feather knows to be true is that given the chance, the Forest will devour her home just like it’s devoured everything else in her world. Her small community...

When Dilly arrives on the island of Ollipest, she is unsure what to expect from her new life . . . She certainly doesn't expect to find magic! Until now, the...

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker--she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she's quickly packed off...

Clown in a Cornfield meets The Cabin in this twisty, blood-curdling delight from acclaimed author Kat Ellis about a group of rivals stranded in an abandoned house that seems to have its own...

Milla and Honey have been best friends since forever. Milla envies Honey’s confidence, her charisma, and her big, chaotic family―especially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla’s own small family...

In this basic introduction to money, readers learn about various economic models throughout history with compelling illustrations and probing questions that explore the real world circumstances surrounding spending, selling, and...

Sidney plans to be the director of the Juicebox Theater when he grows up. For now, he handles the props, his best friend Folly works the concession stand, and his...

This fascinating picture book biography tells the story of the trailblazing woman who first discovered our climate was changing. In an era when few women practiced science, Eunice Newton Foote dared...

A propulsive novel of ambition, greed, and the deadly fury of Mother Nature, as a female driller takes charge of an isolated offshore oil rig with an entirely male crew. When...

Winnie knows that change isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially when it means her best friend, Amanda, might be dropping her for someone else. Throw in a grumpy...

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the...

Perfect for fans of Laura Dave and Ashley Audrain, Plays Well with Others is a delicious domestic thriller that explores neighborhood secrets, dangerous friendships, and truths too dark to be acknowledged ......

A witty and moving take on A Little Princess from an acclaimed author about the friends and family who can be found in surprising places Penelope has been all over the globe, from...

Winner of the Parlimentary Book Awards A New Statesman, The Times, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year 'Revelatory' – Daily Telegraph 'Delicious detail' – The Times Boris Johnson was touted as the saviour of the country and the Conservative...

The Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year 'Immensely readable' – Observer Historically, the 'red wall' formed the backbone of Labour’s vote in the Midlands and the North of...

Princess Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian Princess, an ardent supporter of workers’ rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery, while on one occasion ejecting an inquisitive...

"I was twelve years of age when I chopped off my hair, dressed as a boy, and set off to save my family from impending ruin. I made it almost...

In this conclusion to the Regency-era fantasy trilogy Kirkus Reviews calls “enjoyable mayhem,” Kat is tasked with saving her family, the Order of the Guardians, and England itself. With just days...

Regency England's feistiest twelve-year-old is back! Nowhere in England is safe from the mischief and magic of Kat Stephenson: Her eldest sister has finally wed, but when a scandalous accusation threatens...

Cordelia has been crowned the Raven Queen. But with new power comes new danger. The unmissable sequel to The Raven Heir and conclusion to the epic middle-grade fantasy series. Once their...

Cordelia and her triplets Rosalind and Giles have lived safely in the castle at the centre of the forest all their lives, protected by the spells their mother has woven....

Princess Sofia of Drachenburg is sick of being used for her older sister's political gains. At twelve years old, she's already been a hostage to invading dragons and promised to...

Once upon a time, in a beautiful city famous for chocolate and protected by dragons, there was a girl so fearless that she dared to try to tell the greatest...

Aventurine is the fiercest, bravest kind of dragon, and she's ready to prove it to her family by leaving the safety of their mountain cave and capturing the most dangerous...

A seductive fae queen meets her unexpected match in the enemy empire’s valiant general. Enchanting the Fae Queen is the second instalment in Stephanie Burgis' irreverent and sparkling Queens of...

Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire...

This is a book for people who worry (so, yeah-everyone!). The perfect companion for children feeling anxious about returning to school or feeling overwhelmed with worried thoughts. We all have a...

Introduce kids to online safety with this must-have book for any kid who gets tablet, phone, or computer time!  Buy this book if you’re looking for: ★ A fun, accessible, kid-friendly guide...

From the co-creator of the viral 'Tea Consent' video, this is the perfect introduction to consent for kids and families everywhere. Your body belongs to you and you get to set...

Learn all about ADHD and discover helpful strategies to help play to your strengths—whether or not you have ADHD!—in this fun and empowering illustrated guide. Every brain is different! And understanding...

The year is 3897, and life on Earth is a neon dream, all flashing lights and buzzy noise – and no one remembers that behind the illuminated shell above them...

Mimi adores her wild, fun, full-of-life gran. Then Gran starts forgetting things. Suddenly there are cracks appearing all around their home - and a mysterious black crow - both of...

Just like her favourite person in the whole world – her grandad – Hettie’s favourite place in the whole world – the Arts Centre – has gone. And Hettie can’t...

I was Haven Point's first Wreckling, but I certainly wasn't the last. There are forty-two of us now, not including the mermaids. When you're a Wreckling, you mainly spend your...

Adrasteia Dantes always knew she’d be a pirate captain. She just didn’t know she’d be seventeen years old when it happened. Adra takes the helm of the Worldeater after her half...

One week ago, Riley Kowalski joined a team of four other teens for an internship on climate change research in the Antarctic, sponsored by one of the world's largest tech...

Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. The disaster made it impossible to live...

Two Black young men attend prestigious schools nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of insidious racism. In April 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s...

Barely one week into senior year of high school, Boston native Zakiyyah is making her 2012-2013 Get Free Plan. Step one: quit high school. (PSA: There are other ways to get...

This deeply moving and authentic debut set in 1970s Alaska is for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and Benjamin Alire Saenz. Intertwining stories of love, tragedy, wild...

Who will be the next heiress? Let the Veritaz trials commence. At sixteen, Honora 'Nora' Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in Gamanix; her family controls all the...

YOU HAVE 3 MINUTES TO SAVE YOUR LIFE . . . WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Nessa knows that it is only a matter of time till she gets The Call -...

Every year horror-loving Simone Washington throws an epic Halloween party for her classmates. Party-planning is her favorite escape from the dark secrets in her past, and this year, she’s taking...

A psychological thriller about a night of babysitting that turns fatal and a girl determined to figure out if the gas leak was an accident, perfect for fans of E....

A lyrical and heartfelt collection by an award-winning writer that connects the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and the American west. Each story is unique, yet...

Once, in the desert country of Miraji, there was a Sultan without an heir. The heir had been killed by his own brother, the treacherous Rebel Prince, who was consumed by...

This is not about blood or love. This is about treason. Nearly a year has passed since Amani and the rebels won their epic battle at Fahali. Amani has come into...

In this quiet town, a magic awakens . . . Thirteen-year-old Yumna lives in a sleepy town where nothing ever happens. So when her friends start sneaking into the woods at...

Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans,...

In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend's disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger, perfect for fans of Ace...

Grace and Maddy are sisters who have nothing in common—until they both disappear on a class trip. Days later, Grace is found, injured and disoriented, with no memory of what happened—and...

A gorgeous debut about friendship, grief, and new beginnings set in near-future San Francisco in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and on the cusp of the first human mission...

It starts with a class in an old movie theatre . . . From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series comes...

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she...

Not every love is meant to be... After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she's discovered her own magic, Evangeline...

From the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series, Once Upon a Broken Heart is the first book in the beloved series about love, curses, and the lengths that...

Snowflakes are falling. Invitations are arriving. And holiday magic is swirling in the capital city of the Meridian Empire. It's Great Holiday Eve Eve. Scarlett Dragna is planning a spectacular Holiday celebration for...

A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Tella has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett,...

A love worth fighting for. A dream worth dying for. An ending worth waiting for. Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun - with lives, empires,...

Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is what it seems... Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for the wonder of Caraval, a once-a-year week-long performance where...

Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September...

All of Nic’s dreams have come true. After years of living in hiding as a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world, she now has everything she’d ever wanted: certified hero status,...

It’s not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool—like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much—like not being trusted to...

If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the...

Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who...

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when...

A personal and explosive investigation into modern day gynaecological neglect and medical misogyny. Evelyn Scott was a teenager when she first began suffering from the symptoms of endometriosis, a condition which...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys will be boys and girls have to grow up... Over the past decade, girlhood has repainted the cultural landscape pink. From Taylor Swift's The Era's...

Winner of the East Anglian Fiction When Florrie’s great-niece discovers Florrie was a footballer in the early twentieth century, she unearths a secret history both on and off the pitch. Boxes from...

Is the truth a legacy worth inheriting? Flick Templeton seems to have it all: money, a renowned family name, brains and talent. But her wealth and status seem an obstacle to...

Lydie, the daughter of Death, a retired Rider of the Apocalypse, is obsessed with ‘cosy’; cosy books, cosy summer job in the family café, cosy low-drama life. But when secretive, attractive,...

From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. Gabriel de León has lost his family, his faith,...

After surviving the Forest Grimm and defeating the Wolf, Clara and Axel have made it back to their village, the one place they can be safe behind the forest's borders....

Seven people, four days and a snowy Christmas on board a luxury sleeper train. This festive season getting away from it all takes on a new meaning… The Yorkshire Belle is a glamorous...

An immersive and awe-inspiring exploration of the diversity of life on earth that reveals humans are far from the only intelligent species in our restless, ever-evolving world What does it mean...

In 46 BC, at just two years old, a young North African prince named Juba was paraded through the streets of Rome as part of Julius Caesar’s victory parade. This...

An epic First World War historical story of courage and friendship, perfect for kids aged 9-12.  Based on the true story of Indian WWI gunner and recipient of the Victoria Cross,...

Explore the spectacular science of reproduction - from frogs and funghi to seahorses, sparrows and everything in between Let's talk about sex. Not boring, human sex, but the endlessly fascinating, varied...

From two of the UK’s best-known book makers, Robert Macfarlane and Luke Adam Hawker, comes a stunning picture book to ignite wonder in readers everywhere. In the darkness of December, Through the...

A short, energising book that offers seven reasons to feel a bit more positive about the future of the planet There is a climate crisis, extinctions are accelerating, forests are disappearing,...

An investigation into the policy choices that led to the UK housing crisis. What is the true cost of Britain’s housing emergency? This is the shocking story of Britain’s appalling housing crisis...

They say love conquers all . . . But can love win in a war between demons and exorcists? Or will it just tear them all apart . . . ? Cruel is...

Magnus lives on Aerth, which is currently moving into an Ice Age, with a strange virus limiting the population. When the planet Urth is discovered, he vows to become an...

Caught between the cliffs and an unforgiving storm, Rosalie's fight for survival becomes a reckoning with her troubled past. Trapped in a cave overlooking the roiling sea, the climate activist...

Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for ­five years, but she still works alongside him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends...

To complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the workplace or taking a stand against sexual harassment at university, the act of complaining to...

South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive...

This is the greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after. Yuki and Sam are soulmates. They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together. They are supposed...

Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds – bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and...

A Sunday Times bestseller.   A RAGTAG CREW. A PERILOUS QUEST. A pirate faces the gallows drop. A farmer is given a terrible ultimatum to save her daughter. An acolyte ascends to priestesshood,...

The first book in Louie Stowell's hilarious bestselling series. After one trick too many, Loki is banished to live on Earth as a "normal" schoolboy. Forbidden from using his godly...

The Sanctuary meets Shutter Island in this high-concept psychological thriller from Katherine Bradley, critically acclaimed author of The Sisterhood. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER TRUST YOURSELF? Billie wakes alone on...

Jacq is destined to hunt fearsome giants to protect her city--but when she meets a sensitive young giant named Corman in the forest, she realizes the world isn't quite what...

From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of...

Claire Fitzroy was just trying to get home when her train from Manchester to London was hijacked by a group of armed men. In one terrifying moment she faced the...

Denver Brady claims to be the most successful serial killer of our time – and that’s precisely why you’ve never heard of him. But with the publication of his manual for...

Set in Scotland at the court of witch-hunting King James VI, this is the story of three women - born to follow very different paths - whose lives become dangerously...

Two terrible pirates ... two brilliant detectives! The first book in a hilarious illustrated pirate mystery series for readers 6-9, crammed with puzzles and clues for the reader to solve.  Buck...

What's the one day a year that's all about you? Your birthday, of course! Everyone loves their special day and there are so many ways to celebrate. From birthday seaweed soup...

Dearest reader… let me catch you up. Gwen, our lady knight. Isobelle, our knight’s lady. They fight monsters, and they’re in love. Well, they fought one monster, once. And while they are in...

8 HOURS TO STOP AN EXPLOSION ... 8 HOURS TO FALL IN LOVE. From the NYT bestselling co-author of Illuminae and Aurora Rising comes a high-octane, high-chemistry, sci-fi adventure about a...

Why does purple mean royalty? Do red sweets really contain beetles? And what was the world's deadliest colour? This beautifully illustrated book takes young readers on a colourful journey through the...

Task Force 58 was the Second World War’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft carriers, over a thousand combat aircraft, and an armada of escorts,...

Born into a world on fire, Godling Hekate has never known safety. After her parents find themselves on the losing side of the war between the ruling Titans and the...

What are you most afraid of? Perhaps you're scared of hairy spiders hiding in corners, huge-winged bats who fly through the night or enormous sharks lurking in the oceans ......

The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers Anthony Powell was the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an...

Economists such as Kate Raworth and Jason Hickel have long argued that endless growth is ecologically damaging, proposing the idea of de-growth in response. But what if de-growth was baked...

Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity. In the mid-fourteenth century, a lethal plague struck the...

A Telegraph Best Book of 2025 'Already your future has been planned out. There is not much choice about what to become in the small town where you live . . .' A bedroom...

The heart-pounding conclusion to the high-stakes dual POV romantic fantasy duology, with dangerous enemies-to-lovers romance, deadly politics and a war to change the fate of empires. Two queens. One throne. Who...

An alliance between enemies. A weapon of untold power. And a bond that could rewrite fate. Welcome to the kingdom of secrecy, betrayal and no mercy. Blessed with the power of illusion,...

The darkly seductive sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling YA romantic fantasy Sing Me To Sleep, in which a siren must decide if saving her kingdom is worth betraying the boy she loves. Saoirse...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Cruel Prince meets To Kill a Kingdom in this seductive YA fantasy debut, in which a siren must choose between protecting her family and following her heart in a prejudiced kingdom...

In this YA fantasy novel perfect for fans of Heartless Hunter, a girl who has always served others decides to take power for herself. Her magic feeds on lies. His magic could destroy...

A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his family, from 1924 to the present. 'A new book by Yanis Varoufakis, one of the most important...

From “one of the greatest storytellers we have” (Robert Bly), an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories — and the Greatest Story — to reshape our own. There’s an old...

Shaped by the cycle of the natural world, a fresh look at the life and work of John Constable to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth in 2026. As exhilarating...

Into the woods. Count to ten. Only one of us comes home again. 1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not...

A DANGEROUS CHASE. A SADISTIC KILLER. DS Lucas Walker is on assignment for the AFP, and it couldn't be more personal. This is his last chance to take down Stefan Markovich -...

From Danielle Girard, the USA TODAY bestselling author who “effortlessly ratchets up the tension” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), comes Pinky Swear,  a pulse-pounding thriller about a young woman...

From the bestselling author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON comes book 3 in an out-of-this-world new series packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic. Planet Earth, in...

Natalie has had enough of her mum’s boyfriend, but what’s the best way to get him out of their lives for good? Perhaps going away with Mum and best friend...

From the creator of One Snowy Night comes this entertaining board book for the youngest of Percy fans! Percy the park keeper and his friends are enjoying an action-packed day, playing in the...

From the creator of One Snowy Night comes this entertaining Easter board book for the youngest of Percy fans! (This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not...

Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate. And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation. When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels - and...

A tender story of mothers, daughters and breaking family patterns, from the author of bestseller My Policeman which became the hit film starring Harry Styles When Winnie is happy, Lillian is happy, too. It’s...

A beautiful second volume of Shakespeare retellings, from the master storyteller. Featuring re-tellings of a further eight of Shakespeare’s plays, and beautifully written with Michael Morpurgo’s warm, accessible and inimitable style,...

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, a fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment―and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving Imagine this: You’re walking...

From beloved writer Michael Morpurgo, comes a new collection of reflections, memoir, stories and wonder. 'A beautiful, thoughtful book that brims with joy' - Kate Mosse In Funny Thing, Getting Older, one of...

Four wonderful stories from the world of nature written by master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. "You have to breathe the world in deep, and all its creatures too ... become part of...

Will Davenant has known more tragedy than laughter. But in an unexpected twist, he inherits his grandfather’s copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare – and makes a surprising discovery. As the last...

The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists,...

An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest country and its decline and fall. With Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one...

The most daring SAS mission of the Second World War So secret was this mission, the SAS seizure of a train to raid deep into enemy territory to liberate a concentration...

A brilliant compendium of Britain's most renowned heroes from Boudicca to Mandela, illustrated by Martin Rowson. Heroes have flaws, but their stories stir the soul. In Gimson's Heroes, bestselling author Andrew Gimson...

If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe . . . The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter shows no mercy. Amidst brutal conditions, Major Richard...

‘Tony Blair was a giant amongst prime ministers and leaders of the Labour party: Steve Richards is a giant amongst political commentators. This riveting and persuasive book describes what happens...

What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and...

We live in a world where many aspects of late twentieth-century science fiction have become technological reality. As gadgets and technology in general have become more miniaturised, sleek and capable,...

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Cuddy November, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night. Klaus Kinski, Germany's most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd...

The modern world throws a lot at us – relationships, careers, social media, the list goes on. It can often feel like too much for our brains to handle. In The Evolving...

Lindy had a lovely voice. It rose into the summer darkness clear and true as a nightingale; or was it, rather, like a bird of prey? Rosamund wakes up from her...

One is chasing justice. One is chasing the past. Both are being followed. Deep beneath London, urban explorer Connie Darke stumbles across a mutilated body in the city’s decaying sewer system....

For hearts that haven't learned to protect themselves, can there be anything more powerful than young love? Kelsey and Lewis have been best friends for ten years before, finally, he...

Is it possible to resist temptation when you're falling for the devil? At twenty-one, Willow was supposed to be turning into a responsible adult, not proving her mother right when she...

It starts with the knife. Found at the bottom of a hidden lake in the Norfolk Broads, covered in blood and heart tissue so fresh the water hasn't yet washed it...

Hampstead County Police Department is embroiled in scandal after corruption at the top of the force was exposed. Cleared of involvement and returned to active duty, Detective Sergeant Casey Wray...

Lily Brown prides herself on her organised, surprise-free life. Whether it's charity yoga for polar bears or crafting a ninety-six-piece balloon arch, Lily always goes the extra mile. But when...

Taylor Swift has crafted a rich mythology throughout her musical eras, with countless symbols and easter eggs acting as invisible strings connecting her lyrics, looks, music videos, performances and communications...

Koi, ex-supermodel and face of lifestyle brand the Sunflower Company, is #livingmybestlife in a Scottish castle with her famous family of nepo babies and influencers. Everything they do is posed,...

A young woman is missing. But is she in hiding . . . or has she been captured? A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to investigate a series of cold...

Sophia DeWinter has been bound to her cruel uncle, the Collector since he exacted a blood bond from her as a child. When she learns of Killmarth, an elite academy...

The second irresistible adventure in the Compass and Blade trilogy, full of intrigue, sizzling romance, dark magic and monstrous beings. A magical bargain always comes at a cost. On Rosevear, Mira is...

They can't keep skating around their feelings... When disgraced Hollywood star Luca Vasvault is partnered with drama-averse professional skater Matilda Stevens on Stars on Ice, the pair get off to a less-than-smooth...

If their new home doesn't break them, their secrets will... When Emily wakes from a coma following an accident that nearly kills her, she finds herself agreeing to move from London...

For over a century two rival organisations of women have gone to deadly lengths to secure a precious scrap of fraying embroidery in the hopes of finding the original medieval...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘You think you’re invincible. You think you won’t ever miss. We need to...

A heartstopping story of friendship, thrill-seeking and defying expectations: the explosive second novel from the bestselling author of My Absolute Darling Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor...

A stunning, emotional novel of friendship, secrets and love. Your perfect beach read for summer 2025  Four women Annie has brought her three best friends and their families together for a long...

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and...

The mind-expanding new thriller from the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers and The End of Mr. Y He’s running for his life. And he’s running out of time. Jay has been hunted since he was...

A new bedtime adventure for Molly, Olive and Dexter – stars of the delightful series for toddlers from Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist Catherine Rayner. Molly the hare, Olive the owl and...

Bestselling sensation Jacqueline Wilson is back with an adult sequel to her beloved children's novel THE ILLUSTRATED MUM - pre-order now! Will Dolphin retrace old patterns - or illustrate her own? ‘Sorry to wake...

Join in the fun with The Mubbles: When Berry Met Terry! The second book in the hilarious colour graphic novel series by Liz Pichon, the creator of Tom Gates. Filled with...

The latest book in Alexander McCall Smith's entertaining and hilarious Professor von Igelfeld series Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is not just any German professor - he is the author of that...

"It’s like ice cream, Mr Flynn," Bertie continued. "When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who haven't got...

The rains are coming, but not just yet. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish - particularly those of Mma Potokwani, matron...

In this latest instalment of The Perfect Passion Company, Katie Donald, with the help of her enigmatic neighbour, William, continues her unwavering endeavour to help lonely hearts find love. After facilitating a...

Animals are better at certain jobs than we are. Did you know that ferrets can be employed by electricians to safely lay cables in inaccessible areas? Or that bats can...

A joyful, laugh-out-loud counting picture book with plenty of cat-itude! In this interactive counting book with rhyming text, sturdy flaps and surprising pop-ups, you will meet 20 funny felines in lots...

Funny and thought-provoking answers to curious questions … in poetry form! Join renowned poet Brian Bilston for a hilarious, non-fiction adventure in 100 poems – with subjects ranging from science and...

Shea Parker has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Gravewood – a deadly forest that’s cut her town off from the world. With resources dwindling, she’s forced...

In this witty fantasy romance, a widow blackmails her rakish necromancer neighbor to bring her husband back to life and save her home . . . only to find herself...

It's the middle of the night, and Maudie would really, truly, like a good night's sleep. She heads to her lovely house in the woods for some rest, but when...

Discover the story of Peter Pan with this pop-out sound book. Join Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook in this sound book adventure and prepare to be swept away with...

Delight in New York City at Christmas time in this highly treasurable lift-the-flap picture book. Join Kit and Olivia for a day out in New York as they journey through the...

Penelope Shuttle’s History of the Child is a highly evocative exploration of childhood, memory, and imagination, blending personal and historical perspectives. The book’s themes include parenting, grief, nature, emotional recovery and connections...

Joey and Harry are back in another epic adventure with the imps from the Ministry of Mischief! This time, though, the imps are trapped in the Humanrealm and only Joey...

'Mind-bending, heart wrenching, and unputdownable' STEPHANIE GARBER 'A captivating new voice in fantasy' HAFSAH FAIZAL   When monsters rule, who will be left to stop them? After Joan's failed attempt to save the world,...

'One of my favourite webcomics of all time' Bestselling author of HEARTSTOPPER Alice Oseman Sébastien and Elia are finally together, and love is in the air this springtime! But the more they...

The Knock hill is a carcass unintelligible as any dream. Wouldn't you rather be a witch than a victim? I didn't realise those were my only options. In need of a fresh start, Thomasin leaves her...

An instant NYT, USAToday and Indie bestseller.   A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption. 1785. Twenty years ago, Sebastian Grave of Larnaca...

Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty? Lamorna Ash was raised with about as much Christianity as most people in Britain these days:...

Travel the world in this awe-inspiring new gift title from the British Museum featuring 50 spectacular new festivals that you won't want to miss! It's time to celebrate as you explore...

Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city''s celebrated clockmaker and his clever,...

A laugh-out-loud, modern fairy tale featuring all our favourite characters and one little bear who just wants the hullabaloo to stop so he can read his book in peace! All day...

A look at how artists and writers harnessed the landscapes, cultures, and histories of their locations to reimagine how art should be made and life lived. Coinciding with the exhibition...

Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president - the original king of cozy crime, Simon Brett - with...

FIVE DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE FAMOUS FIGHTING FORCE DURING WWII From the infamous 1944 desert campaign to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains; from a perilous escape across Europe aided by Resistance...

From the bestselling author of No Bullsh*t Leadership comes an indispensable guide on how to thrive and become a priceless asset in the workplace. The working world has changed. In an era...

By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the...

Frankly is no ordinary political memoir. Remarkable for its honesty and self-reflection, this is the story of Nicola Sturgeon, one of our most influential and successful leaders. The enduring popularity of the...

It's Bella's first day onboard as Captain of the Sunshine! Bella was always going to follow in the same seafaring footsteps as her Aunt Bertha the walrus, but commanding a...

Winter has arrived at Hotel Flamingo! The snow is falling heavily, and while it's usually a quiet time of year for Anna and her animal hotel, this year is shaping...

Hazel and Portunia have discovered that the plan to steal magic, involving an alliance between the Fae and the humans, is bigger than they could have ever imagined - and...

A gripping social and political chronicle of the causes and consequences of Syria’s 2011 revolution, and its continuing global fallout. Syrians have longed for the ordinary life that eluded them for...

Famously, the Paras is home to the UK military's second-toughest training regime after the SAS. Des Powell knows all about both. In fact, Des knows SAS selection better than anyone...

Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an array of bizarre and harmful underground subcultures, collectively known as the manosphere, as...

We think of time as scarce and finite. We say we 'don't have enough time', that 'time is against us', and that 'time waits for no one'. But what if...

In the glorious summer of 1914, Emily Grey, a young Cambridge undergraduate, is studying German in Heidelberg. While there she meets Hans, a philosopher with grey eyes and long lashes,...

Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of...

A blacksmith’s daughter with a secret. A lady with a plan. We’re in for one unforgettable knight… Gwen has spent the past several years manning the blacksmith’s in place of her father, an...

Magic and sacrifice collide as lovers and gods, enemies and allies vie for the fate of the world in this heart pounding sequel to The Isles of the Gods. When SELLY...

In this sweeping romantic fantasy, a dangerous deal binds a young jeweller's apprentice to the mysterious Serpent King in a marriage of convenience, thrusting her into a deadly game between...

Jenna Ray was the Love Interest, but now she's the HERO. Unfortunately, as it turns out, having actual superpowers doesn't make life any easier. For starters, being an official superhero means...

Gaia Gill is the last person in the world anyone would expect to go missing. Beautiful, athletic, and recently accepted to a prestigious college, she has everything to look forward...

An island full of secrets. A truth that could change everything . . . 1940s: Young and romantic, Veronica cannot help falling in love, even with unattainable men like handsome film star...

What happens when you find love, but life keeps getting in the way? When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty,...

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Dear Mrs Bird, Dear Miss Lake returns us to wartime London where Emmy Lake is facing her greatest challenge yet . . . London, July 1944. Journalist Emmy Lake's...

Welcome to Spring Hill, home to a square of independent shops and cafes, a thriving local community and nearby the newest venture, Ray’s Diner. Here a group of women meet...

What's the thing you'd change about your life right now if you could just click your fingers? When Anika Lapo wakes up in hospital on her thirtieth birthday, it's not dying...

The dream holiday just got complicated . . . On the sun-drenched island of Kefalonia, the new arrivals at The Ionian Escape hotel are hoping for a break from everyday life....

No rules. No choice. No turning back. He played by the rules - until the only rule that mattered was survival. Recovering from a gunshot wound that nearly cost him his life,...

FEEL THE MAGIC. CONJURE THE IMPOSSIBLE. When Kosh is accused of being the notorious thief the Shadowsmith, he and Bitsy must go into hiding before Kosh is arrested. Determined to prove...

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the...

David Domoney is a familiar face on several of UK TV’s most popular garden and magazine programmes. He is a great enthusiast for the positive power of plants and is constantly discovering and...

The new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events...

Set in the remote New Zealand bush, in the South Island. A young girl stumbles into a supermarket in a small town, desperately thirsty and hungry after days walking solo....

'You should read this book' Philippa Gregory - The most lucrative industries are male-dominated – yet half of men think they're the ones being discriminated against - Post #MeToo, we're all committed...

In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century. Many scientists believe that we are...

What draws us to the night sky and how can we make sense of all that lies there? In this unique synthesis of science and culture, former astrophysicist and writer Joanne...

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city's most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the...

Milk is elemental. It is the first thing we look for at birth and, for most, it is the first substance to touch our tongues after we enter the world....

The heatwave of 1995. Sixteen years since an infamous tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. Sixteen years since the animal was euthanised. Sixteen years for the...

The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry...

Aunt Addie  better known to the world at large as Adelaide Granby, the fabulously successful author of 49 volumes of gushing, melodramatic  Victorian romance. Upon her death in 1912, flowers and cards...

Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 per cent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think...

For many years, the post-war recovery of Germany was an inspirational story; all of Europe looked on with admiration and envy as the nation rebuilt itself and set the standards...

It's not the lies that kill you. It's the truth. They predicted Ivo would become a tycoon They predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyer They didn't predict that Lily...

A brand new, FABULOUS, all singing, all dancing book of JOY! Meet the Mubbles is the first in a hilarious brand-new, full colour graphic novel series perfect for young readers from Liz...

The BRAND NEW novel from bestselling author Julia Jarman! Perfect for fans of Maddie Please and anyone who thinks age is just a number. The Widows Wine Club of Viv, Janet...

ALAN IS KING OF THE UNIVERSE. Well, not yet. But he WILL be. An orange cat blessed with opposable thumbs, Alan is convinced he was born to rule and spends his days...

Another instalment in Jacqueline Wilson's highly popular Sleepover series featuring Daisy and her friends - and Daisy's sister Lily. The summer holidays have finally arrived, and Daisy is bored. Daisy is...

A must-read for fans of Circe, Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland recasts the folklore behind the Wild Hunt into a dark, feminist fantasy set amidst the legends and beauty of...

Twenty years ago, James Canton moved from London to the English countryside. Behind his farm labourer's cottage was a small field with a 'for sale' sign. At first it was...

At just nineteen, Stephen has already survived a year at the front. Now he is returning to the trenches to lead a platoon, despite his wounds. Broken-hearted from the loss...

With the tide turned against the Dead, Peter and the remaining community on Wranglestone prepare to leave for town, where the comforts of the world before await them. Could this...

Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared… In a post-apocalyptic America, a community survives in a national park, surrounded by water that keeps the Dead at bay. But when winter...

In 1613 a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to weld together Europe's two...

This illustrated volume collects the best of Miranda Seymour's weekly pieces for the Independent. Each piece covers a single herb, whether henbane, parsley, cannabis or woad, and describes its characteristics, its...

Nancy Brewster, a reclusive living on the shore in New England, reflects on the baleful events that have cruelly shaped her life. As The Summer of '39 opens, she is...

Formula 1 might only have twenty drivers in its most elite competition, but each is supported by a world-class team of mechanics, engineers, strategists, party planners and much more. In...

Henry James left London in 1897 to spend the last two decades of his life in East Sussex where his neighbours included H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford,...

The Bugatti Queen is the beautifully illustrated story of an indomitable and fascinating woman, a pioneer of motorsport who revelled in danger. Born in 1900 in a tiny French village, Hélène...

'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object of his affection was not a young woman, but a house...

The definitive and richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein The creator of the world’s most famous outsider became one herself... There is no more...

A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread...

If a pill could free you of guilt … would you take it? From the outside, Maya Patel’s life looks perfect. She has a beautiful baby, the company she founded is...

Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines. Facing Hitler's fearsome Panzer divisions with little more than...

Lamorna Ash was raised with about as much Christianity as most people in Britain these days: a basic knowledge of hymns and prayers received via a Church of England primary...

The charming, touching final children's novel by the beloved and award-winning author Jeremy Strong An extraordinary house on wheels is being towed along a forest track by doleful Moose. On board...

‘And there, as I struggle to open the gate, I happen to glance down and see it. Frog spawn! Clumps of it, floating like grey slimy sponges on the surface...

Welcome to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL. Where Viking and Dragon Heroes are made! Join Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragons, Toothless and Windwalker, in their hilarious, hair-raising...

Exploring the nature of obsession and entrapment, Send my Cold Bones Home is fortified by a strong dose of the macabre. But is also displays Tristan Hughes' fascination with haunting,...

From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker-longlisted author Belinda Bauer, a sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved...

A debut novel of love, loss, haunting absences and dispossession, told with artistry and elegance. The Tower is where Nan found the old miller hanging from the rafters on the eve...

FEEL THE MAGIC. CONJURE THE IMPOSSIBLE. When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient...

Third in the series: Agnes and Attie – AGENTS OF THE WILD – are off to the Sahara Desert on a mission to rescue rare baby animals from illegal wildlife...

Agnes and Attie – AGENTS OF THE WILD - are bound for the Antarctic on their second creature-crazy wildlife-rescue adventure. When SPEARS receives an emergency distress call from its marine outpost...

Enter the world of Agnes & Attie: AGENTS OF THE WILD; fun-packed young fiction with wildlife conservation themes. When 8-year-old Agnes is signed up for SPEARS (the Society for the Protection...

PLAY THE GAME. BRAVE THE LEGEND. Arthur, Ren and Cecily are stuck in Legendarium in the year 2493, where the secretive villain Deadlock has discovered dangerous time-travel technology. To save the universe,...

A gripping, propulsive and atmospheric crime thriller perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter James and Elly Griffiths. Your new Norfolk crime obsession starts here... Nobody ever knew what happened to...

Pet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This book offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, history, and Indigenous knowledge. We meet a pot-bellied pig who saved her owner's...

THE GAME IS ON. TRAVEL WITH WONDER. When Arthur, Ren and Cecily investigate a mysterious explosion on their way to school, they find themselves trapped aboard The Principia – a scientific...

Ivy and Seb can't wait to join Valian for their first ever overseas uncommon adventure - they're meeting in Nubrook, the completely astonishing and totally-different-to-Ludinor trading market hidden underneath New...

At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that...

As soon as Ivy and her brother Seb set foot back in the mysterious underground city of Lundinor, they know that something has changed . . . Where before there...

Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems . . . When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot...

Stunning picture book collaboration from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, actor Johnny Flynn and illustrator Emily Sutton On my way through the wood wound a thread through the dream... Take a lyrical journey...

The glittering story of April Ashley, model and trans pioneer, and the divorce case that gripped 1970s Britain and defined transgender rights for a generation. As Britain emerged from post-war austerity...

A young woman is missing. But is she in hiding . . . or has she been captured? A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to...

There is an old tale that weaves through the mountain town of Woodsmoke. It whispers of a stranger who appears as the snow falls, only to disappear in spring. Leaving behind a...

A steamy enemies-to-lovers workplace romcom for fans of Sally Thorne, Hannah Grace and Beth O'Leary   Annie Radford swore she'd never work in college basketball again, but eight years after fleeing her...

Few cities in the world are as famous as Liverpool, the home of the modern world's most celebrated rock group and of a legendary football team. The city is equally notorious...

What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, how we were brought up and educated, the jobs we've...

Lower Canada, 1804. Arthur Stanton, lacking direction in his life and desperately seeking the approval of his father, wanders the streets of Montreal filled with daydreams of exotic lands and adventures...

Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to take, not give. After...

Friendship never ends… Four women Annie has brought her three best friends and their families together for a long weekend away in a gorgeous seaside Airbnb. It should be idyllic – sun,...

England, 1685. Decades after the end of the civil war, the country is once again divided when Charles II’s illegitimate son, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, arrives in Dorset to...

Lost in Antarctica. How long can she survive? My name is Rachael, and I’m on a solo Antarctic expedition. But a month ago I lost contact with basecamp. No radio. No sat phones. Just...

Alice has made the most of her maternity leave, becoming simultaneously a proud mum (well, a mum, at least) and accidental amateur sleuth. With her son, Jack, somehow a year...

History is dominated by the A-list deaths - Queens beheaded, Archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people through history prepare for the end, depart this life,...

An exploration of the art and life of Vincent Van Gogh through the touching letters he exchanged with his brother Theo. Vincent is fed up with life in the grey city,...

A monster has broken into Jack's garden and stolen his favourite yellow underpants. The cheek! Jack sees his chance to flex his new fairy skills and embark on his first ever...

A timeless, magical tale of a carousel pony who comes to life and goes on an adventure by moonlight. The Carousel Horse spends his days giving children rides at the fair....

Otto The Top Dog is a delightfully funny tale about kindness and sharing from CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner Catherine Rayner, the creator of Arlo the Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep. This is Otto....

A curious and single-minded baby chick takes off to explore the farm. Cheeky Chick can’t help being cheeky―he just wants to explore. With a dollop of luck and under the watchful...

'You can't go out of the house without tripping over a philosophical question.' That is a remark made by Isabel Dalhousie to Jamie, the bassoonist who is her handsome younger...

From the world's favourite author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, this novel is about chance encounters; it is richly atmospheric and packed with compassion and humour. Often a small and...

A chance meeting with the manager of The Great Hippopotamus Hotel leads the much-admired and traditionally-built Precious Ramotswe to investigate what is going wrong with this previously successful country hotel. Guests have...

Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? They're all grown up now - but if they think they know what's coming, they'd better think again... Adulthood isn’t quite...

The ultimate book for Tom Gates fans to read and fill-in all year round! Packed with brand new activities, makes and stories and including pages for recording words that make you...

The top-of-the-class, extra special 22nd book from bestselling author and illustrator Liz Pichon. A feel-good, laugh-out-loud, packed-with-pictures Tom Gates story! Tom Gates is Ha! Ha! HILARIOUS! He's created brand new comic *Ants...

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter 'Seiffert writes short, fast narratives about the big historical events that have shaped our time' - The...

A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is out bush with his little sister Grace from Boston. They're fetching his cousin Blair, who's been mining boulder opal...

Louise never thought she'd be the sort of woman to have an affair. She's a good wife, a good mother and a good daughter - even if she is far...

CAN YOU EVER REALLY KNOW THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR? Cowerworth is the picture perfect neighbourhood. Its manicured lawns and low crime rates make it the ideal place to raise a family. But in...

A powerful, moving adventure inspired by the extraordinary true story of the French Drummer Boy of Waterloo, Cobweb is a stunning tale of courage and kindness – a book about...

Can you find happiness anywhere? Anywhere at all? Amid the chaos of breaktime, Finley Tandy sits peacefully on the wall. Mr Goodhew, watching from the staffroom, is in awe of the...

Hugo Hunter was the most celebrated gay novelist of the 20th century. He published two masterpieces, securing his place alongside the dazzling literary greats of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and...

Stylist's Best New Fiction of 2024 London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they...

The hidden Caribbean isn't a place but a legacy of the complex history, people and food that exist outside the limelight of Caribbean culture. East Winds is full of Riaz's award-winning...

Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human bodies, characters, and text are neither one...

'Instantly gripping. Smart, timely and great fun from beginning to end' Bella Mackie, author of How to Kill Your Family 'London's glitziest and seediest corners spring to life in this sharp and...

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking...

How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil 'deep state'? It didn't begin with Donald Trump, and...

They say love conquers all . . . But can love win in a war between demons and exorcists? Or will it just tear them all apart . . . ?   A...

A gut-punch novel of girlhood in early noughties Yorkshire from a blazing new voice. Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed...

As claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become almost impossible to talk about constructively, even in private. Instead, we find ourselves in...

A new Cold War is under way. Whereas the first Cold War was dominated by the threat of nuclear conflict, the new front line is economic and financial, but still...

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother . . . We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our islands have hundreds...

Mrs Porter Calling is the uplifting and heartwarming third historical novel from AJ Pearce, the beloved author of Dear Mrs Bird. London, 1943. Emmy Lake is most definitely Doing Her Bit for the war...

Comforting, charming and hilarious, Yours Cheerfully is the tonic we've all been waiting for, from AJ Pearce, the beloved author of Dear Mrs Bird. London, September 1941. For plucky, determined Emmy Lake, working at Woman’s...

Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, Dear Mrs Bird is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary...

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of...

‘A beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering “before Everest”, full of wonderful stories and spanning continents and centuries. A splendid debut’ – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author of Shackleton Beautiful, remote...

Announcing the arrival of a major talent, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is more a warning than a wish. Photos of women eating go viral, a cookie communicates a threat, and women...

WHEN THEY SAY YOU WILL FAIL… FAIL TO LISTEN. As the only female page in history to pass the first year of training to become a knight, Keladry of Mindelan is...

Duty or glory: which will she choose? Keladry of Mindelan has finally achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a knight – but it’s not quite what she imagined. In the midst...

Being the first is the last thing they expect of you. Keladry of Mindelan dreams of becoming squire to the legendary female knight Alanna the Lioness, a hero straight out of...

Daine holds the fate of Tortall in her hands in this thrilling conclusion to The Immortals series. During a dire battle, Daine and her mentor Numair are swept into the Divine...

Daine Sarrasri’s power is growing, and her bond with animals is ever stronger. Along with her mentor, Numair, and a delegation from Tortall, Daine is sent to the Emperor Mage of...

Diane has wild magic: the ability to talk to and sway the actions of animals. When Daine is summoned to help a pack of wolves – friends from her old...

Now a knight of Tortall, with her gender no longer a secret, Alanna embarks on her next adventure to the edge of the realm. Captured for the crime of trespassing,...

Alanna of Trebond has surpassed even her own impossible dreams of becoming the first female knight. She has faced countless threats, vanquished deadly rivals, and collected adventures worthy of legend....

At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments, Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past while mourning what never existed. The text moves,...

Atmospheric and lusciously told, Mrs Jekyll reframes Stevenson's classic story of human duality in the present day, as one woman contends with a terminal diagnosis — and unearths the effervescence...

Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. British Malaya, 1930s Discontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara and the glorious future he is promising for 'independent' Malaya, free...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet's attention? What if...

WIFE. HUSBAND. BEST FRIEND. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion? A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves...

Four of us. Lourdes, María, Cora, Lucia. We had once been five, before Graciela left us. All of these cuentos belong to us. Trust us when we take your hands. Graciela is...

‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father at 35 and whenever I look out the living room window I feel myself become the child left alone in the house’ Centred around two...

Who are you if you’ve never seen another face like yours? Where do you belong if you don’t know where your home is? What do you call yourself when others...

Ask no questions. Obey your orders. Respect your masters. But most of all… Love no one. Born without breath, Aella’s life began with a solemn promise etched in fate. Ousted from...

First, she books a spontaneous flight to Ibiza where she meets Tom, a brilliant young chemist working on an experimental drug called Eudaxa that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life....

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the...

THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER IN THE STEPHANIE KING SERIES, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW. Would you keep a secret for a stranger, if it meant the blood was on your hands? Celia, Juliette...

Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return... With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie...

Joey and Harry do NOT like each other. Stuck together on a school trip to a museum, things couldn’t get any worse, until they meet some incorrigible monsters! The monsters...

The global No.1 bestselling author of The Girl on the Train invites you into her most suspenseful and powerful thriller yet. Eris, an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out....

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe Dinah has...

'One of my favourite webcomics of all time' Alice Oseman Boy moves to new city. Boy meets vampire. They kiss, then become friends. But both would like something more. A global Webtoon...

The Order of Masks is the first in a seductive, glittering fantasy duology, as two ambitious young women navigate deadly court politics, determined to improve their lives - no matter...

For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound...

Lucinda Drummond, art history expert, was beautiful, clever, successful and loved. When she is found at the bottom of her museum's Tulip Staircase during the pinnacle event of her career, people are...

SAS Great Escapes Three recounts how warriors of the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out five of the most daring escapes of the Second World War. Ranging...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor. In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write...

A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers,...

Anybody who found themselves in the rigging of the good ship Lotus very early that morning would have seen an unusual sight: a shy, plump girl with a magpie fidgeting...

Joey and Harry do NOT like each other. Stuck together on a school trip to a museum, things couldn’t get any worse, until they meet some incorrigble monsters! The monsters...

On the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Michael Morpurgo tells a new story about this milestone moment in British history. Aunty Iris always treasured her small painting of a boat,...

A headmistress is dead. The circumstances are suspicious. And as every parent knows, being on the school group chat can be murder... As educators go, Claudia Stitchwell makes Miss Hannigan look like...

A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2025 'Radical and thought-provoking, this book should drive us all to action – and the author tells us how' – Gina Rippon, author of...

Follow a mother bear as she teaches her cubs how to survive in the wilderness in this beautiful and absorbing Nature Storybook. Spring has arrived in Alaska, and a brown bear...

Mark Chalmers, 36, dark haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French and German and has a taste for wine, food and women. Sounds familiar? It is...

Use the power of the humble house plant to combat the stresses of modern life! Indoor house plants may seem extra trendy right now, but these plants have more benefits than...

Join the Gods Squad in the third and final hilarious new instalment of the Oh Maya Gods series! Vesper and Aster need Excalibur to save the world. At the top of...

Welcome to Curdle Creek, a place just dying to make you feel at home. Osira, a 45-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions and practices of Curdle...

The author of sales sensation If  We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the...

State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? Based on the author's experience of studying terrorism and...

‘I’m going to a place called Grand Theatre and I’m going to be a dancer in a pantomime!’ Tess loves to dance, even when everything seems grim. After mum dies and pa leaves,...

From shape-shifting water dragons to sun-eating serpents -- let imagination take flight and discover the dragons of the world. In this lavish volume of tales, Carnegie Medal-award-winning children's author Theresa Breslin...

How far would you go for the perfect family? When Christopher Harris climbs into his family’s dusty attic, he finds a battered old suitcase containing a letter. Inside the letter is...

You made a promise to your sister. It could destroy your daughter. The Daughter 15-year-old Rosie lies in hospital fighting for her life. She’s trying to tell her mother what happened to...

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF ONE SMALL VOICE: a bold, electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the...

The first thing you should know, dear reader, is that I am dead… Teacher Pippa wants a second chance. Recently divorced and unhappy at work, she uproots her life and moves...

Rachel Ryder doesn’t understand how her life has changed so completely. When she was younger, heads would turn when she walked into a room. Her children needed her; her husband adored...

She doesn’t know I’m there, watching her in the mirror. She slides her hand under her blouse. And then I see something impossible. She isn’t pregnant… She bursts into my life...

Being attuned to the last thoughts of the dead is a gift - but also a curse... Talented yet troubled, singer-songwriter Bronte was hailed as the next big thing - until...

One loving couple. One surprise guest. One week to destroy everything… When the doorbell rings, I take one last look round the villa. The nuts and olives are in bowls; the...

The love of your life… or a deadly mistake? It’s hard, meeting your ex after so much time apart. You remember the tears and accusations, the desperate look on his face...

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism. Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher...

Lucy has left Lockwood & Co. A freelance operative, she is hiring herself out to other agencies - agencies that might value her ever-improving skills. But now Lockwood needs her help. Penelope...

Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambolic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And...

Ghosts and ghouls beware! London's smallest, shabbiest and most talented psychic detection agency is back. Life is never exactly peaceful for Lockwood & Co. Lucy and George are trying to solve...

December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St...

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to...

Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Edmund, when her beloved and eccentric father dies, leaving Poppy one last request - that she ensure he is buried...

Juice is a masterpiece. A great novel for our times from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton. Coming October 2024. Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony...

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her...

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career fulfilling and she copes with her two rather peculiar relatives...

A train screeches to a halt in the middle of the English countryside and, observed by her fascinated fellow travellers, a woman climbs down and rushes to the aid of...

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart...

Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man who inherited his father's philanthropic attitude along with his beautiful house, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to...

Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring....

A startlingly new vision of motherhood from the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings  When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do. She searches for...

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All. She has cleaned her cottage, given away her beloved pet goose and...

The final book in the epic fantasy-adventure series from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. ‘Mitt arrived at the top of the steps, panting, and pushed open the door. “Oh,...

The third book in the epic fantasy-adventure series from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. ‘I had not seen how they hated us till I heard them shout. It was...

The second book in the epic fantasy-adventure series from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North...

A hilarious fantasy sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, set at the University after the ‘fantasy world’ tours have stopped, and centred around 6 students (one a Griffin) and...

A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats… tourism. Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 1999. A humorous...

The first book in the spellbinding, epic adventure series from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the...

A magical Arabian Nights tale from the captivating creator of fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. The dazzling sequel to Howls Moving Castle, now a major animated film. Far to the south in...

A chaotically magical sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, from the bestselling children’s author and ‘godmother of fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's...

The stories featured in this collection are: Warlock at the Wheel Stealer of Souls Carol Oneir’s Hundredth Dream The Sage of Theare Everybody’s favourite nine-lifed enchanter makes a guest appearance in each tale. Plus man...

Spells always have consequences and it's Chrestomanci's job to make sure everything is safely under control. Even so, in the village around Chrestomanci Castle, all sorts of secret magical misuse...

Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he...

Discovering that he has nine lives and is destined to be the next ‘Chrestomanci’ is not part of Christopher’s plans for the future: he’d much rather play cricket and wander...

Someone in this class is a witch.  When the note, written in ordinary ballpoint, turns up in the homework books Mr Crossley is marking, he is very upset. For this is...

The Dukedom of Caprona is a place where music is enchantment and spells are as slippery as spaghetti. The magical business is run by two families - the Montanas and...

Anna wants a fresh start. She doesn't believe she deserves it, but after three years behind bars she has finally paid her dues. Most of them, anyway. Lucy craves the attention...

Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury have reached a verdict. Two years earlier, Livia was a probation officer in Yorkshire, her husband Scott a teacher. Their children,...

Squid Game meets Agatha Christie in this locked-room virtual reality murder mystery, where the only option is to win - or die trying. Video games have never been more murderous. Veronica wakes up...

Percy the park keeper has been busy in his workshop for days. As his animal friends try to guess what he is making, Percy suddenly emerges sitting on top of...

Percy the park keeper always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But one cold winter’s night Percy discovers that his little friends need more than food and...

Percy’s friend, the hedgehog, has always longed to fly but, without wings, it’s an impossible dream. But then, one day, a stranger arrives in the park, needing his help. Will...

Percy the park keeper is having a day off. It is a perfect day for doing nothing. But Percy’s peaceful picnic is disturbed when a little rabbit takes an unexpected...

It’s a beautiful spring morning and a perfect opportunity for Percy the park keeper to trim the overgrown maze. But mazes can be rather confusing and when Percy’s animal friends...

Percy the park keeper is planning a treasure hunt. All his animal friends are to follow a trail of clues around the park and the first one to reach the...

An excellent collection of recipes presented with infectious humor and charm... Hot on the heels of The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian, Sally Butcher brings us The New Middle Eastern Street...

The part-time vegetarian who was identified in Sally’s first book, Veggiestan, has become a thing. Great swathes of the population are now eschewing meat for the best part of the week...

Hilary Wainwright, an English soldier, returns to a blasted and impoverished France during World War Two in order to trace a child lost five years before. But is this small,...

1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with his cherished new wife, the novelist Harriet Vane. As they become part of fashionable London society...

When Marion's mother is silenced, first by a stroke, and then by death, she is left confronting the chaotic detritus of a life obsessively devoted to art. she has left...

According to certain Cambridge scholars, the locked library of St Agatha's College is home to an unrivalled - and deeply uninteresting - collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one...

A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, The Dolphin Crossing (first published in 1967) marked the fiction debut of Jill Paton Walsh, subsequently a celebrated author of detective stories and novels...

Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is...

Another foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St Agatha's, and the verdict is accident,...

Prince Dhutmose has commanded a splendid tomb to be built for his final journey to the Land of the Dead. Pepi's father is to decorate it, but how can he...

A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, Fireweed is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readers Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he's finding that surviving on...

What is the Summerfield secret? Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that...

Sometimes, Birdy watches her father row people across the dangerous sea, but when the wrinkled old woman asks to be ferried across, Birdy jumps in too. The woman tells Birdy...

It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an...

'For a fleeting instant Maria thought she saw a little white horse with a flowing mane and tail, head raised, poised, halted in mid-flight, as though it had seen her...

It's 1953, just days from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and Penny Black can't get into the summer holiday spirit. Not when she's about to move to Scotland - and...

The last thing she remembers is standing outside the empty house. One she was employed to pack, ready for removal. Her job is her life. It is her compulsion to...

After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon Gutmunsson, junior FBI consultants Emma Lewis and Travis Bell went their separate ways: Emma rejected her Quantico offer and Travis stayed...

In 1982, two teenagers, Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, are recruited to the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases....

Alanna’s journey continues, now as a squire to Prince Jonathan, the heir to the throne. But Jonathan is more than just her prince. He is also her best friend. No...

The future of war-torn Cretacea hangs in the balance, in this exhilarating finale to The Deadlands series. Having dealt the Carrion Kingdom a devastating blow, the heroic outcasts return home to...

Battle rages on for the surviving dinosaurs in the second thrilling book in The Deadlands series. Hunted across the Salted Scorch by a vicious pack of raptors, Eleri and his friends...

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of...

If only Pat Macgregor had an inkling of the embarrassment romantic, professional, even aesthetic that flowed from accepting narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce Anderson's invitation for coffee, she would never have said...

Seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray has just been saved by the world's newest superhero, Blaze. And, in the eyes of the public, that means one thing: Jenna Ray has been cast as...

With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new...

Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land. The city of pies and Irn Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene – his place of escape. But how will he respond...

In the captivating sequel to The Darkening, Vesper and Dalca face their fiercest battle yet to save their besieged city from the Great King and his ominous army. Vesper Vale sacrificed everything to...

Nobody knows what lies inside the Knoll nor what form the Fae have taken after all these years . . . join a quest of a lifetime to rescue Goblyn Wood from...

The beginning of Janet, Viv and Zelda’s friendship could not have been less promising… Navigating their new lives as widows, the three women venture to the same dreary bereavement group in...

Viv, Janet and Zelda know all about facing the wobbly first year of becoming a widow as their friendship was forged when they ran away from the same dreary support...

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished...

Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels are loved and enjoyed by readers throughout the world. In each book there are countless scenes involving conversations around the table, in the kitchen, or...

Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt. The definition of diaspora is the dispersion of people from their original homeland. But what does it mean to write...

Kensuke’s Kingdom is a true children’s classic by former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, the creator of War Horse. I heard the wind above me in the sails. I remember thinking, this is...

**A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year** **A Granta Best of Young British Novelist** **Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022** **Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2022** **Shortlisted for the Swansea University Dylan...

Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her? This is the story of Esther Simpson, a woman...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly...

India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother, Jhoti. Marvinder has already saved her brother's...

Decades after the loss of his younger sister, a man haunted by horrific memories returns to the sleepy English village where she died. Jeremy Horton is a man denying his past,...

A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. And the second is that...

The compelling story of the greatest warrior hero of ancient times, from award-winning writer, Jamila Gavin. Alexander the Great is hailed as the world’s greatest leaders of all time, renowned for...

A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of...

Cowerworth is the picture perfect neighbourhood, Its manicured lawns and low crime rates make it the ideal place to raise a family. But life in a quiet suburb means someone...

A beautiful cookbook that celebrates the wonderfully diverse flavours in Caribbean cooking with over 100 riveting recipes to try. Introducing West Winds - the most-talked about cookbook of 2022 and a joyous celebration...

Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984, The Sisterhood. In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one...

Growing up in a Chinese takeaway in rural Wales, Angela Hui was made aware at a very young age of just how different she and her family were seen by...

The water's rising, the temperature's dropping. Time is running out.... Jessie wakes in total darkness, shivering with cold, the rain beating down on her. She reaches out, and her hand meets hard...