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 joined David Higham Associates in October 2023. I was previously the Head of Production at the events company, How To Academy, where I also interviewed authors including Max Porter,...

I joined David Higham Associates in March 2023. I have a degree in English Literature from the University of Brighton and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of...

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 joined DHA in 2020 and I represent prize-winning writers of literary and general fiction, non-fiction and poets. My authors include Sara Ahmed, Raymond Antrobus, Jacqueline Crooks, Emma Glass, Leone...

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 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 joined David Higham Associates in January 2018, having previously been the Editor at Gregory & Company Authors' Agents. I worked alongside Jane Gregory for ten years, helping to build...

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 was Managing Director of David Higham for over twenty years and am now Chair of the board. I began my publishing career at Faber & Faber, starting in rights...

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 began my career in children’s publishing and worked in editorial roles for twelve years before joining David Higham in 1996 as an agent specialising in children’s authors and illustrators. Many...

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 am building a list of commercial fiction and am looking for romance, romcoms and women’s fiction, young adult, new adult and adult fantasy (preferably with a strong central romance)...

I joined David Higham Associates in 2015, having previously studied at the University of Oxford and the École normale supérieure in Paris, and currently act as an Associate Agent. In fiction,...

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 to assist Nicola Chang....

I am actively building a list of literary and upmarket fiction, SFF and non-fiction. Authors whose work I admire include Ali Smith, Elif Batuman, Miriam Toews, Hanya Yanigahara, Sarah Moss,...

I started my career at Curtis Brown as an assistant, and since then I've worked in children's editorial at Simon & Schuster and Usborne Publishing. I joined David Higham Associates...

In non-fiction, I love projects that explore topics omitted from traditional narratives. I am particularly inspired by work which looks at female pain in its all forms; by writing on sex,...

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...

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...

Braidee Otto is an adult romantic fantasy author, with her debut novel, Songbird of the Sorrows, self-published in June 2024. As a self-described hopeless romantic, her writing style paints vivid imagery,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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 Prize...

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...

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...

Mariana Costa sprung fully formed from an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. She's a silly, harmless little creature who likes to spin a good yarn in exchange...

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...

Colwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, though is now based in the US.  She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she...

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...

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...

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

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...

M. L. Rio was born in Miami and raised in North Carolina by parents from California, and has never known how to answer the question, “Where are you from?” Her writing...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

Aimee is an Edinburgh based writer of novels, short stories and poetry. She studied English Literature at the University of Glasgow, co-edits BROTH zine, a journal of strange writing, and...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

After reading Law at King’s College London, Claire returned home to the North West. She worked in Manchester for an international law firm for over fifteen years before making a...

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 and took an MA in social anthropology at Oxford....

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck College, London. He has published widely on various medieval topics, including Anglo-Jewish history, Christian-Jewish relations, the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer and John...

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...

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...

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....

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 Unpublished...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lucy has loved books for as long as she can remember – stories of adventure, of weird and wonderful places, and seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. She joined the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published...

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...

Manchan Magan is 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....

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,...

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...

  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...

Masud Husain is Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. He has published over 200 research articles, including in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Lauren Mooney is a writer from the East Midlands, now based in South London. She writes fiction for both children and adults, and has recently completed her first middle-grade novel. Since...

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...

  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...

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...

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 reclaiming the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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...

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...

Jess is a graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.  She has been running her own business, Rosa & Clara Designs, since 2013.  Her...

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...

Sareeta Domingo is an author, creator, editor and contributing writer of romantic fiction anthology Who's Loving You (Trapeze Books, March 2021).  Her novel If I Don't Have You was published...

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

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...

Before becoming a children’s book illustrator Ella studied Fine Art, (Painting), and worked in Children’s Book Publishing (design and art direction) for 21 years, latterly as Head of Campbell Books....

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...

Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of two books, a novel, to be published in sixteen languages, about a discontented housewife who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading forces of...

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...

Helen Roche is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. She is the author of Sparta's German Children (2013) and more recently The Third Reich's...

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...

Chris Galvin is a writer of middle grade and YA fiction. He spent his youth reading books and comics, which grew into a passion for writing (and occasional doodling). Originally from...

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...

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...

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...

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. Her...

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 an Australian novelist living in East London. She grew up in Melbourne, studied in Canberra, and worked in journalism, on the set of the TV show Neighbours,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 Wensley is publishing his debut book with Octopus, Through A Vet's Eyes: How we can all choose a better life for animals.'. He is a leading UK vet and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 &...

Sureka Thanenthiran-Dharuman is Tamil; born in Sri Lanka, raised in Australia. She has adequately disappointed her doctor-mum and engineer-father by always choosing the path furthest from the one they worked...

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...

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...

Michelle Teahan is a qualified Medical Scientist but her passion has always been writing stories. She loves creating strong female characters, putting them in the worst types of situations and seeing how they...

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....

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 Telegraph,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Emily was born in the North-West of England and, as a child, loved to scribble down stories and poems. She graduated with a degree in Psychology at Loughborough University and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anna Caig writes historical crime set in amazing landscapes. Her debut novel The Spae-Wife, set on Stewart Orkney against the backdrop of the witch trials, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut...

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...

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,...

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...

Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about social issues and subcultures. For her latest book, Nomadland, she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave...

Elizabeth Alker is currently a presenter for BBC Radio 3, where she hosts the Unclassified programme and also presents weekend editions of Breakfast. She joined the BBC as a researcher...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jessica George was born and raised in London to Ghanaian parents and studied English Literature at the University of Sheffield. After working at a literary agency and a theatre, she...

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...

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...

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...

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 and love. She’s...

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....

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,...

Mark Mukasa is a writer from South London. He works in marketing and is the editor of I Am Hip-Hop Magazine. In 2019 he won a Spread the Word London...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yvonne Battle-Felton holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is an Associate Teaching Professor and Academic Director of...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 © Suki Dhanda Raymond Antrobus is a poet and writer from London. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press) and The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins). Raymond's children’s picture...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 of the...

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...

Carol Anshaw is the author of Right after the Weather, Carry the One, Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Carl Sandburg...

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...

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River (Thought Catalog),...

Born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Yamada attended Waseda University before entering the Shōchiku film studios, where he trained as an assistant director under Keisuke Kinoshita.[1] He left the company at age...

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...

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...

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...

Photo © Marie James 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...

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...

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...

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...

Tish Delaney was born and brought up in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. Like a lot of people of her generation, she left the sectarian violence behind...

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...

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...

Katy Balls is Political Editor of the Spectator. She is a regular columnist for the i newspaper and a contributor to the Guardian. She was shortlisted for Political Commentator of...

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...

Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of the story collection History on a Personal Note and six novels, including On Mermaid Avenue, Hester Among the Ruins, An Almost Perfect Moment, and...

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...

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...

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...

Born near Chatham, Evan Mawdsley moved with his family to New York in 1951. He completed History degrees at Haverford College (Philadelphia) and the University of Chicago and returned to...

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. They made their short 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...

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...

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...

Jane Rogoyska is a writer and filmmaker, whose first book was the biography Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa. She has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Laura Mucha is an ex-lawyer turned poet and author. Her writing has won multiple international awards and been featured on TV, radio and public transport, as well as in hospitals,...

Mark Boyle became The Moneyless Man in November 2008 when he set out to try living completely without money for 12 months - not spending, earning, saving or using it....

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,...

Melanie Challenger is a writer, researcher and broadcaster on environmental history, philosophy of science, and bioethics. She is the current Deputy Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and a...

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...

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...

Zoe Lea lives in the Lake District with her husband, who is a Falconer, and their children. Zoe's chilling debut novel, The Secretary, was published in 2020 and her second novel, Closer...

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...

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...

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...

Dubbed ‘Queen of the Underworld’, Jessie Keane is of Romany gypsy stock. She was born rich, in the back of her gran’s barrel top wagon, and her family thrived until...

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 has worked as a bookseller, and with the Royal Navy. Her debut, Someone Else's Skin, won Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2015 and was a World Book Night...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Penny Hancock was born in London. She is the author of internationally bestselling novels and writes articles and short stories on family psychology for the national press. I Thought I...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 was born in Bedford and grew up in St Albans. He studied at York University. He has a strong background in children’s books. While writing his earlier novels, Buried...

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...

Laurie Penny is an award-winning journalist, essayist, public speaker, writer, activist, internet nanocelebrity and author of six books, including Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury, 2014), Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016)...

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,...

Hannah Begbie was born in London. She studied Art History at Cambridge University before working as a talent agent, representing writers and comedians for more than a decade. In 2016 she...

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 working at Manchester University having previously taught at the University of Birmingham. She is a Fellow of the...

Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before a law conversion course at City University.  She practised as a criminal barrister in London for the...

Merlin is the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mark B. Smith teaches history at Cambridge, where he is a University Lecturer and a Fellow of King's College. He specialises in the history of the Soviet Union and is...

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 Unearthed:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist whose work has been translated into many languages. His most recent novel, Cuddy, won the Goldsmith’s Prize awarded for mould-breaking fiction and has been...

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...

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...

Sylvia V. Linsteadt’s work is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism & bioregionalism, and is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land. She is the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, where he teaches medical law and ethics. He is a practicing barrister and a qualified veterinarian with a...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 during...

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...

The pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation, Tim Winton has published 28 books for adults and children – fiction and non-fiction - and his work has been translated into 28...

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...

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...

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 Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He was awarded a DPhil from Oxford University in 2000, following two years in New York studying for an...

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...

Elizabeth Wilhide is the author of over 20 books on interior design, decoration and architecture and a co-author and contributing editor to some 30 other titles, collaborating with authors such...

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 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author...

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 has published over sixty children’s books, mostly for the 7-11 age group. He has always sought to excite the interest of children who are just becoming independent 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 was brought up in English countryside and was educated at an Oxfordshire girls school and Oxford University. She has lived and travelled all over the world but now...

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 Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, Hew Strachan is now Chichele Professor of the...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

Robin Shaw is an award-winning animator and illustrator known for his beautifully lyrical hand-drawn work. As well as 15 years as a director of animated commercials he has worked closely with...

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...

Miranda Seymour is a novelist and biographer who also writes reviews and articles for a number of leading newspapers and literary journals, including The Economist, The Times, the Times Literary...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Rachel Rooney trained and worked as a teacher of Special Needs for many years before re-discovering her love of writing poetry. Her first poetry collection The Language of Cat won the...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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 editor of the Spectator and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He joined the business desk of The Times in 1994, and spent a year as the...

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...

Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet and novelist. His fourth collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet), won the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2014 and was...

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....

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...

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,...

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 trained as an actor at the Guildhall and enjoyed a varied and rewarding theatrical career playing Shakespeare, selling mobile phones and appearing as the Nesquik bunny. She co-founded and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Elizabeth McCracken is the recipient of the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Winship Award. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,...

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...

Professor David Marquand is one of Britain’s leading political commentators. His career has included periods in both academic and political life. Following research and teaching posts in Oxford, Berkely and Sussex...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Stephen Lacey was born in 1957 and educated at Shrewsbury School in Shropshire before going on to study Modern Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. After an early career in property...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anna Keay OBE is a historian, writer and presenter. She is currently Director of the Landmark Trust, and has previously worked for English Heritage as Properties Presentation Director. Before that...

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...

Alan Judd has written fifteen 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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 has...

William Hussey is an award-winning author of over a dozen novels. From thrillers and love stories for Young Adults to gripping whodunnits for grown-ups, he has written in almost every...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.  ...

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...

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...

Lucy Hounsom is the author of The Worldmaker Trilogy. Her first book, STARBORN, was shortlisted in the 2016 Gemmell Awards for Best Fantasy Debut. Her fourth book, SISTERSONG, a reimagining...

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...

Leigh graduated from the University of Hull in 1998 with a first in graphic design. After a successful career as an animation director - her films include Moo(n) for Channel...

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...

Before becoming a mum to her three sons, Lisa Heathfield was a secondary school English teacher and loved inspiring teenagers to read. An award-winning author, Lisa Heathfield launched her writing career...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Graham Greene was born in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford he worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth...

Linda Green is a bestselling author whose novels have sold more than 1.4 million copies and have been translated into 12 languages. Her emotional drama, One Moment, was selected as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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....

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...

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 Wiltshire in 1970, Alex George was educated in France and at Radley College before studying law at Brasenose College, Oxford. He qualified as a solicitor and worked as...

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...

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's first novel for adults, God on the Rocks, set in the 1930s, was adapted for television in 1992. It won the Prix Baudelaire (France) in 1989 and was shortlisted...

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...

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,...

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...

Still unsure how it happened, Maz Evans is apparently the author of the bestselling WHO LET THE GODS OUT?, VI SPY and SCARLETT FIFE series, which have collectively sold over half a...

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 began her career as a graduate trainee on the Daily Express, where she was twice shortlisted for young journalist of the year. She then became a feature writer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

John Cunliffe worked for many years as a librarian, a teacher and later a full-time writer. His first book, Farmer Barnes Buys a Pig, was published in 1964. He is...

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, magazine editor and writer. He has been widely credited with transforming the fortunes of the New Statesman. He is a former editor of Granta and...

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 was born in South Africa in 1940 and educated in South Africa and the United States. He is the author of over ten works of fiction, four collections of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Professor Margaret Boden is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. Her highly interdisciplinary work interests practising artists, philosophers, and research scientists of various kinds. She holds...

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...

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)...

'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...

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...

Scarlett Bailey has loved writing stories since childhood, before becoming a novelist she worked as a waitress, cinema usherette and bookseller. Passionate about old movies, Scarlett loves nothing more than spending...

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...

Katie Agnew was born in Edinburgh in 1972 and spent her childhood in Lasswade. She studied English at Aberdeen University and followed by journalism at City University in London. Her first...

Antonia Barber wrote many books for children. Her second book The Ghosts was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and was later made into the popular film The Amazing Mr Blunden. The...

Correlli Barnett was a world-renowned historian who first achieved fame with The Desert Generals, a controversial study of the 1940–43 North African campaign. His subsequent work ranged from military and...

Nigel Barley was born in Kingston-on-Thames, UK, in 1947. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and completed a doctorate in Social Anthropology at Oxford. After a number of academic positions,...

R.J. (Rebecca) Anderson was born in Uganda, raised in Ontario, schooled in New Jersey, and has spent much of her life dreaming of other worlds entirely. After learning to read...

Lindsey Bareham made her name as restaurant critic and food writer for Time Out. In Praise of the Potato (Michael Joseph, 1989) – of which Elizabeth David wrote 'I love the book....

Rachel Abbott's books have sold over five million copies worldwide. Her debut thriller Only the Innocent reached the coveted number one position in the Amazon Kindle charts within three months of...

J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC Magazine, The Listener. A respected mentor to such younger writers as Christopher Isherwood and W. H....

Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by the New York Times, the...

Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire and studied at Cambridge and Manchester. She's worked as a barmaid, a waitress, a Samaritan and a cleaner and she currently...

Dr Thomas Asbridge is a medieval historian specialising in the study of the Crusades and the broader history of relations between Islam and the West. Currently based at Queen Mary,...

Paul Allen was born and brought up in East Kent where he learned to play the trombone but not very well. His first job in journalism was with the Sheffield...

Running the amazing DHA film and TV team is honestly such a privilege in every way! My colleagues are incredible. Their enthusiasm, creativity, efficiency and attention to detail are second to...

In 2017 I  joined DHA following a 15 years 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...

They assist Clare Israel and Georgie Smith. They graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA in Philosophy in 2019. They went on to intern at production companies like Pathé...

I assist Nicky Lund. I graduated from London South Bank University with a degree in Film Studies in 2022. I then went on to gain work experience at the BFI’s Sight...

Alegría Adedeji is a writer-director and essayist who focuses on the human condition and the digital age. Her miniseries THERE’S RICE AT HOME screened at Fringe of Colour and was...

Will Miles has twice made the top 2% of scripts for BBC Writersroom, reached the workshop stage of BBC Studios Writers' Academy and has recently been longlisted for the TV...

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 was born in Germany in 1987. She lives in London, where she works for a literary agency. The Appointment is her first novel. It has been translated into...

Amarjit has a passion for telling commercial and accessible stories about communities, particularly little known stories from British Asian communities. He recently completed the 4Screenwriting course where he developed his...

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...

Based in the North East, Rebekah is a playwright, dramaturg, director, screenwriter, disability consultant and actor who’s plays have been performed at venues including the Hampstead Theatre and Newcastle’s Live...

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 credits for adult and kids programmes include the award winning CBBC/Netflix show The Worst Witch (lead writer), for which he has also received a 2019 WGGB nomination for Best Children’s TV...

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...

Author and screenwriter, Mark Burnell, is the writer of several crime thriller novels including the Stephanie Patrick series. As a screenwriter, Mark also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of...

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,...

Lizzie Ennever is an exceptional children’s television writer whose numerous and varied animation credits include Poppy Cat, Mike the Knight, and the BAFTA nominated Postman Pat. She has recently written...

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 the extremely funny BAFTA and RTS winning writer and creator of a number of critically acclaimed children’s programmes including multi award winning Class Dismissed (CBBC). Having worked as a...

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 is currently a core writer on both Holby City and Casualty having previously been on the writing teams of Doctors, Hollyoaks, and CBBC’s BAFTA-nominated Rocket’s Island. She has written and developed original television...

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, novelist and playwright. Current projects include her original TV series idea Wild Irish Girl, set in 1951 in Cong, Mayo, during the filming of ‘The Quiet...

Stephen is a creative and versatile film and TV director, whose 2014 feature film adaptation of John Banville’s Booker Prize winning novel THE SEA, starred Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

'Radical and thought-provoking, this book should drive us all to action – and the author tells us how' – Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain 'Illuminating, accessible and important' –...

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...

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...

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...

Three generations of gay men in South Asia fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times India. 1970’s. Sukumar is a young man falling in love with another...

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....

An intimate and radical story of mothering in the Anthropocene. When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would; she goes out in search of information to help make sense of the...

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...

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...

Is there a moment, so pliant, that we can nudge it towards any future we desire? Sometimes I believe that there is such a moment. In a lifetime, once. In an unnamed...

The kingdom of Farsala is broken and black clouds hang heavy over the arid lands. Former Grand-Mage of the High Court, Cyril Laverre, has spent the last decade hiding himself...

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...

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...

Hold on tight as you join in the excitement of discovering a mysterious seed. With vivid curiosity, our young explorers wonder what it could become. Could it grow into a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.' Galton Flood is a lonely...

Some things are a given: knowledge is power, time is money, justice is blind. But many of the big ideas that underpin Western civilisation are just that - ideas. Taking...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVEL China today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. It is also an...

And she was becoming frightened too, looking at all those white faces pressed against the windowpanes. One Black family comes under attack as their little boy prepares to start at an...

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...

Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am. This paradigm shifting...

Oli Hazzard's third collection emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore / from boredom', as memory—personal, familial,...

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...

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession...

We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to...

'Heart-wrenching . . . intoxicating . . . a very English Anna Karenina' - The Times 'Vivid, candid, engaging. So honest' - Helen Dunmore Suffolk, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered...

As a small country on the west coast of Africa, throughout its history Sierra Leone has always embraced diversity – and this willingness to discover and grow has shaped Sierra...

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...

How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and...

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put...

Asian food has it all - contrasts of flavour and texture, straightforward dishes you can eat straight from the wok in socks and pyjamas, as well as celebratory meals your friends...

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...

The debut children's book from Ted Hughes award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus that tracks a father-and-son journey into the discovery and management of deafness. Boy Bear cannot hear Dad Bear coming to...

Armadillo is quite grumpy. Hare is rather cheerful. Despite their differences, they are very best friends. One day, something unusual happens. A glitzy new neighbour appears - singing, dancing, and turning...

In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science released a paper that measured fourteen European countries on three factors: biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Britain came last in every...

The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike. James is fed up. His family has moved to a new...

In March 2020, Ben Masters’ father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was never happier than when outdoors, and spent his free time chasing butterflies. Despite his attempts to share...

The time for fresh, seasonal, delicious food is now - Turnips' Edible Almanac: The Week-by-week Guide to Cooking with Seasonal Ingredients is the definitive guide to eating the very best...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wingate Prize ‘A sublime gift’ Meg Mason A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing. Ten...

Alice Walker returns with a poetry collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. In Taking the Arrow out of the Heart, Alice Walker examines our troubled times, while...

The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Colour Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a...

'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' – John Irving 'Outstanding' – John Boyne, The Irish Times 'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel...

An Oprah's Book Club Pick A powerfully affecting novel about how we change, grow and age, Wellness is a story of marriage, middle age, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep...

A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron....

In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies’s text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horáček to provide insight into the real-life experiences of refugees forced to leave...

A magnificent look at the science of plants from the internationally bestselling and multi award-winning team behind Tiny, Lots and Grow. This tree doesn’t look like it’s doing very much: it just stands there in...

The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on...

A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age....

Everyone is going to the housewarming party. All the same people who lived on the street the day Abi vanished… Will her mother finally learn the truth? Ava only left her daughter in the...

When the phone rings in Judy McVee’s Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It’s her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her...

The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children. The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a...

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls – especially blondes...

It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from...

September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR It’s time to dance, to love, to be free… Yamaye...

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic...

Cloudstreet -- a broken-down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders and shadows and spirits....

Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and a storm is...

They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is... Meet the little boy who believes in miracles. Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn...

For readers aged 9+ comes the third book in a sparkling series about family, friends and finding the joy in life! From Guardian award-winning author Jenny Valentine, this is the perfect series...

A tear-jerking, heart-breakingly beautiful novel from the award-winning Jenny Valentine, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Kathleen Glasgow and Laura Nowlin. There is one side of that instant, and the other Before After I have...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following...

In the series finale of Maz Evans' bestselling Who Let the Gods Out? series, Elliot faces his darkest period yet. As well as facing up to his fears, he realises that the future...

There are creatures that live on the very edges of our imagination. In woodland, over sea, on the highest peaks of the world, and in the darkest caves, these mythological...

Join the Gods Squad in Ancient Egypt in the new hilarious adventure from the bestselling author of the Who Let the Gods Out series! The Gods Squad is back! Seth, the Egyptian god of...

A brand new hilarious adventure from the author of the bestselling Who Let the Gods Out series! Meet the children of Elliot and Virgo, beloved heroes of Who Let The Gods Out? Football-loving Vesper ... And...

A remarkable collaboration – that brings together giants of the picture book world – to create a funny, anarchic and utterly delightful picture book. A classic of the future. Hilda Snibbs...

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'An epic, elegant masterpiece, so full of lightness and comedy that you're unprepared for how it quietly wrecks your heart' - Lauren Groff n this fourth volume, Nick Jenkins has settled...

'A rich chronicle of 20th-century English social life and an intricately wrought work of art. It is also extremely funny.' - John Banville In this third volume, determined to make a...

'A masterful stylist and a wise, often hilarious observer of human nature and his times, Anthony Powell is an under-appreciated literary gem. The pleasures and dramas of the “Dance” continue...

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time' - Guardian A Dance to the Music of Time is universally acknowledged as...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 ‘Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last’ - Karen Joy Fowler Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she’s quit her...

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' -...

Co-written with Peter Heather Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and...

The very best fart book you will EVER read and the only fart book you will EVER need. This is a truly joyful, colourful, laugh-out-loud celebration of all farts (NO FART...

Return to the magical world where lost things are found. After Jake and Marisol's last adventure in the World Between Blinks, the cousins are safely back where they belong. Until, suddenly, they're...

Explore the much-loved Magic Faraway Tree at the most special time of the year. This brand-new story by superstar author Jacqueline Wilson is set in the original world created by...

Sanuk is a Thai concept that can loosely be translated as meaning ‘fun’. Though sanuk is in fact much more than that; it’s about achieving pleasure and joy in all...

The Perfect Passion Dating Company at No. 24 Mouse Lane in Edinburgh's New Town is run by Katie Donald who has an innate instinct for bringing people together. She has...

'One of Britain's leading political thinkers' - John Gray The follies and failures of bankers, regulators and governments have loomed large in public debate over the past five years. In this...

The first instalment of Peter May's acclaimed and bestselling Lewis Trilogy, which brought murder to the Outer Hebrides. A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land...

A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective,...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop...

The definitive guide to hundreds of Britain’s most outstanding gardens, in the care of the National Trust. The National Trust has the finest collection of gardens in the United Kingdom. In...

In a dangerous world nothing is straightforward. Not even murder. In the peaceful towns and villages of England, Cleaner Bob is washing windows, and people are dying in sudden and unexpected...

A long-awaited sequel to the hugely popular book Sleepovers! Daisy's worst ever enemy Chloe is desperate to win back her friends so she announces she's going to have THE BEST SLEEPOVER IN...

The classic, bestselling novel that launched James Herbert's career. It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming...

'And we're going to live here, happily ever after, just like a fairy tale.' When Dad tells Luna and her little sister Aurora that they're moving to live in a real...

'Graham Greene's masterpiece' - John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his...

'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' - Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American...

The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance...

All aboard the Number Train in this lift-the-flap rhyming counting book with six spinning wheels! Count from one to ten in this vibrant lift-the-flap concertina book! Who is munching on a...

Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent...

he top-of-the-class, extra special 21st book from bestselling author and illustrator Liz Pichon. A feel-good, laugh-out-loud, packed-with-pictures Tom Gates story! The brand new Tom Gates bestseller from multi-million selling writer and illustrator...

Two families divided by hate. A love that will not die. Sylvie and Donna travel on the same train to work each day but have never spoken. Their families are on...

She’s the last person he wants moving in. But maybe she’s just what he needs? Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley! Gemma Whitehall helps people tie the knot as the local registrar,...

'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday Times Named by the CWAs as one of 'The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time', The Killings at Badger's Drift...

Once, he loved her. Now he's going to put her away for murder. Christie Doyle is living the dream: she has a beautiful mansion on the South Downs with an infinity pool...

Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because...

Join ten little bookworms on an amazing reading adventure in this brand-new mini picture book, created especially for World Book Day 2019! Ten little bookworms set off to explore the library....

Follow the adventures of Molly the hare, Olive the owl and Dexter the fox in a delightful series for toddlers from multi award-winning author and artist Catherine Rayner. Dexter the fox...

Join ten playful pumpkins for Halloween fun in this charming rhyming counting adventure! Ten little pumpkins are brought to life by magic dust on Halloween. Can they make their way past...

A new adventure in the delightful series from Catherine Rayner, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Olive the owl loves guessing games, and her best friends Molly the hare and Dexter the fox...

Join ten playful bugs for moonlight fun in this charming rhyming counting adventure! The Bug Hotel is hosting the Moonbeam Ball so ten little bugs are getting everything ready for the...

A heart-warming new story from Emma Chichester Clark celebrating 25 years of beloved characters Lily and Blue Kangaroo. Blue Kangaroo has gone everywhere with Lily for as long as they can...

Meet Molly the hare, Olive the owl and Dexter the fox, stars of a delightful new series for toddlers from Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist Catherine Rayner. Molly the hare loves hide-and-seek. “You two...

Join ten cheeky monkeys for lots of jungle fun in this rhyming counting adventure! Follow the ten little monkeys as they swing through the jungle, getting up to all sorts of...

Maybe my main character will slowly lose their mind too. Novels usually need an abandoned woman going crazy in them. An Australian expat in Berlin, Kim is jobless, rootless, and -...

Join brave little Nell and her beloved companion Cave Bear in this second delightful adventure from renowned illustrator Martin Brown (The Horrible Histories). Nell and Cave Bear are safe in the...

There was a green pea who swallowed a sprout. Without a doubt, a Brussels sprout. What's that about? This little pea is SO hungry! So hungry that he has swallowed a...

The Bowerbird is the irresistible tale of Bert – a small bird with a very big heart, from Number One bestselling Julia Donaldson and Catherine Rayner, winner of the Kate Greenaway...

Longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2013. A Carnegie-medal winner retells Scotland’s most famous legends. Loved by Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson. Slithering stoorworms, mischievious brownies, fierce kelpies and magical selkies -- these...

Shoot for the stars with Sammy Striker! From Oscars Prize-shortlisted Catherine Emmett and bestselling illustrator Joe Berger, Sammy Striker and the Football Cup is an empowering story for young footie fans, about...

Panda and Penguin from The Perfect Sofa are back in this endearing picture book about loving what you have. Penguin and Panda have planned to go camping, but they both fall ill. They...

Martha LOVES making maps! Step back in time with Martha's amazing maps, packed with cool facts and fun details. She meets dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, and ancient sea creatures as she travels...

Through the character of an adorable little dragon, this beautiful book explores the emotion of anger – what it can do to those around us, as well as how it...

Trust no one but yourself… The second blockbuster thriller in the Stephanie Patrick series. The previous novel, The Rhythm Section, is soon to be a major motion picture from the producers...

This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural selection and the publication of...

In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today....

'A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection in a time of crisis' -- Paula Hawkins 'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' -- Anne Enright 'A novel that truly,...

Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Gold Ticket from Mr Willy Wonka! Tremendous things are in store for you! Charlie Bucket's life is about to change forever, thanks to...

Here is a typical Stone Age family, reimagined by Roy Lewis in this hilarious novel as characters in some glittering drawing-room comedy. Father, who has a scientific turn of mind,...

How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent...

The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics,...

A delightful twist on a classic fairy tale about daring to be yourself. Illustrated by Liz Pichon, creator of the bestselling Tom Gates series. Little Wolf doesn't want to be a...

Cinderella may be beautiful but she is a miserable little madam When her Fairy Godfather makes her go to the ball, she is in a very bad temper. She stamps...

  Travel the world on a plate in this highly illustrated children's book for 6+ readers. Drawing inspiration from both history and lore, it explores the mouthwatering stories behind some of...

The thirteenth (lucky for us!) title in the bestselling Tom Gates series of books from the brilliantly talented Liz Pichon. Having two sets of grandparents is turning out to be very good for...

Magic    slips between    the cracks    in real    life. One    day you    will step      on it. A monster s lunch, a wolf boy, Monday mornings, monkeys, headlice, Christmas, making friends, goldfish and lots more. Full of jokes, surprises...

Solomon Crocodile and his friend Mortimer are bored. They want to find some fun, but what can they do? Tree-climbing is tricky, chasing lizards doesn't end well and flying turns...

It’s April in Antarctica and, in places so remote that they can only be seen by satellites, lines of Emperor Penguins appear in search of the perfect ice for raising...

An epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written. Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible...

Help your toddler learn to count from one to ten with this stylish counting book from Catherine Rayner. The simple text gently touches on themes of happiness, friendship and the...

Abigail loves to count. It is her very favourite thing. But when she tries counting Zebra's stripes and Cheetah's spots, they just won't sit still. It's hopeless! What will Abigail...

Iris and Issac are NOT FRIENDS. Off they stomp, in a big huff, as far away from each other as possible. And as they stomp, they see funny, strange and...

WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, ​Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author   ​'I took seven years over this...

Ernest is a wonderfully imaginative book about a moose with a big problem from the award-winning Catherine Rayner. Ernest is a rather large moose with a rather large problem. He is...

Sylvia is the only dragon in the whole world, and she is very lonely . . . until one day, she meets Bird. Tiny and chirpy, so different from the...

Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2009 Harris was a very small hare with very big feet. “Why do I have such enormous feet, Grandad?” Harris sighed. So Grandad shows Harris how to...

A spellbinding new YA fairytale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Purdie, breathing new life into folklore and myth – with a touch of magic all her own… Once upon a...

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Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. After turning his back on his silversaint brothers once and for...

An empowering and colourful picture book to help young children celebrate their voice and express themselves. Whisper, Shout: Let It Out! is a joyous book to share with any child. The perfect...

The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although...

From the bestselling author, Cressida Cowell, comes book 2 in an out-of-this-world new series packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic - perfect for gifting. There is no...

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have survived the Dark’s first assault, but at a terrible cost. A new threat from the past is...

Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the master storyteller, with an introduction by Benedict Cumberbatch Featuring re-tellings of ten of Shakespeare’s plays, and beautifully written with Michael Morpurgo’s warm, accessible and inimitable...

Discover the beauty and wonder of trees in this stunningly illustrated collection of poetry and stories celebrating trees and what they mean to the world around us . . . Inspired...

The moon is high, the hour is late, Goat is napping by the gate. But . . . THE SHEEP WON'T SLEEP! A sleepy sheepdog struggles to put a hundred...

Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm Dr Miriam Price . . . and I'm dead. The local police, who couldn't investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into...

On a visit to the US things take a strange turn for 12-year-old Ajay when, completely at random and totally by accident, he is sworn in as the new president....

A celebration of family time, sharing food together, and a Grandma's hug full, full, full of love. For Jay Jay, the youngest member of an exuberant extended family, Sunday dinner at...

A tender and humorous look at modern family life, with exuberant art from the illustrator of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Celebrate the warmth of Afro-Caribbean family life in this multiple...

Long ago and far away, a magic callaloo plant grew in a village square. Whoever ate one of its leaves was granted a wish. But a greedy selfish man wanted...

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's "dazzling," wildly inventive "miracle of a love story" about an affair between the living and the dead - NPR  For weeks, Rachel has been...

Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind. But her parents have decided she is a waste of space. And her headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a terrible bully who thinks children...

When the dead are silent, she will be their voice . . . Goth-girl mortuary technician Cassie Raven has seen thousands of dead bodies but when a drowned man knocks against...

Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this highly anticipated edition of Tales from Watership Down. Return to the warren with...

To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the...

In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet....

This New Selected Poems comes forty years on from her first Carcanet Selected, which it honours by retaining her original choices while adding a substantial number of poems from her several later collections. Edited...

They say you can't always get what you want. But you can take it. Anna wants a fresh start. She doesn't believe she deserves it, but after three years behind bars...

This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. His ground-breaking early poetry is given its due, especially...

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record...

Winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summoned there, to...

Arthur C. Clarke's classic in which he ponders humanity's future and possible evolution When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect....

It’s the Athens 2024 Olympics and Olivia and Zeke are there to win. Zeke Moyo is the star athlete of Team GB. He's in Athens to claim the title of fastest...

There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three Zero. It was the opening hours of the Gulf War and the SAS were flown deep...

How does a secret service confront its past, when its secrets must never be revealed? Buried deep in MI6's digital archives is the most classified directory of all. It doesn't contain...

From the outside, Emma has the dream life – a loving husband, a beautiful house, two gorgeous children. But something is keeping Emma awake. Scratching at her sanity at 1am. She’s tried so...

When a boy stumbles into a blank book, he thinks it looks empty . . . until he meets a paintbrush. Although the boy is certain that he can't draw...

A slow-burning, multi-layered mystery about families and their secrets and lies  Blackthorn Ashes was meant to be their forever home. For the first six families moving into the exclusive new housing...

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by soaring prices and political tensions. By day, John Church preaches on the radical...

You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity,...

You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband....

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Percy the park keeper works hard looking after the park and his animal friends who live there. But Percy still likes to find time for some fun! Read about what happened...

If you are the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency you may expect complete strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you...

The one with the boy who might have been raised by lions... Facing financial trouble, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is obliged to move into the same premises as Tlokweng...

Selected as one of The Guardian's Top Ten Fiction Paperback of the Year 2000. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe...

Mma Ramotswe faces the unexpected and unwelcome appearance in town of a new private detective, Mr Cephas Buthelezi. To ensure she does not lose clients to him, she takes on...

A beautifully illustrated story with a gentle and encouraging message to help children deal with their worries – from the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner Catherine Rayner. Victor the wolf has...

Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking - that simple act...

The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among...

In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the...

In the much-anticipated conclusion to his masterful trilogy chronicling the wartime career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, renowned military and political biographer Nigel Hamilton aligns triumph with tragedy to show how...

Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, Soul Mountain is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China. In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist...

In 1507 the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller published a world map with a new continent on it which he called 'America', after the explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was...

Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master...

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. 'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were...

A vibrant picture book story to help encourage picky or reluctant eaters, perfect to read together with children aged 3+ "I can't eat peas!" exclaimed Milo. "They're too GREEN! Greener than a stinky,...

Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident - or murder? Six...

The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged...

A queer non coming out story about sex, adolescence, class, fear and contagion in the 1980s: a lush, sensual experimental novel with a hidden linguistic constraint....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Jack Underwood's poetry debut, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (Guardian). Such...

In Falls Landing, Florida - a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers - something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively...

A New Yorker Book of the Year SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2023 About one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch – with its ruthless...

'I want to read about women who can't make things.' Nicola is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend...

Goethe's version of the scholar's fateful wager with Mephistopheles inspires the central sequence of Faust, mapped onto the figure of the migrant who flees a post-colonial legacy of fire, displacement and...

Cara is an aspiring ghost hunter, determined to show she’s more than a high school outcast by finding proof of the supernatural. Then she stumbles upon the spirit of Aiden,...

Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited -- to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a...

Winner of the 2024 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards, 7-11 category. In a faraway forest a baby is lost and found, protected by a she-panda. Nine years later another baby, the...

David used to be in a band with his best friends Chance and Eli. Now the band, Darkhearts, is super famous, with a legion of fans - and David's out...

Spare, simple, funny, and perfect for preschoolers, the saga of a cat who doesn't show up for dinner and the little girl who wishes she knew where he might be—but...

If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable woman,...

In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each...

It's time to start your adventure. Get them before they get you. Put your sleuthing skills to the test in a world of deception, betrayal, and strategy. Placed in a castle...

Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the...

On Jack's tenth birthday he discovers that he's a fairy. A real one, with magical powers. Now he must save humanity from a terrible threat - the unicorns have stopped farting,...

*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021* *WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2021* The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change...

The Monsoon War revisits the futuristic country of Before She Sleeps, where government leaders maintain a stranglehold over women’s freedom and reproductive lives. In a neglected southern province, a female armed...

On 13 April 1919, about twenty-five thousand unarmed Indians had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. Many were listening to speakers denouncing the Rowlatt Act, while others were there to...

At the age of twenty-four, Barbara McLean and her husband, Thomas, decided to make their home in the country, near a village called Alderney in Grey County, Ontario. Together they...

It’s April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown, but that doesn’t mean crime takes a holiday. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot—the...

Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling...

'A history of humanity without a history of our imaginations is only a partial one . . .' We have always created and destroyed monsters. They give form to what we...

A boy called Tin, a girl called Comfry and a couple of hares battle to save the Country from the City’s aggressive desire to consume everything outside of its walls. An...

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...

It's not easy being the smallest chick in the family, but Nugget has had some good news: he's going to be a big brother! Little baby Benedict is still an...

Meet the wedding party: THE BRIDE AND GROOM Celine and Luke are meant to get married and live happily ever after. But Celine's more interested in playing the piano, and Luke's a...

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents? What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children? The...

The poems at the centre of A Method, A Path explore the turbulent transmission of historical and mythic voices that 'reach across' time and place, and a fierce rejection of the nationalist...

1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for...

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel captures Richard Adams's epic tale of courage, friendship, hope, and survival. Spectacularly adapted by award-winning author James Sturm and gorgeously illustrated by bestselling artist Joe Sutphin. 'Every...

In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his novelist wife Kiran Millwood Hargrave discovered they were expecting twins. But Kiran miscarried, and thus began a long journey to parenthood that...

An artist's obsession with Géricault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork. Artist Tom de Freston has long had...

This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times. Beginning in night and winter, it moves...

A Love Letter from a Stray Moon is a fictionalised portrait of the intense and prolific life of Frida Kahlo. It explores the artist’s childhood polio, her devastating accident and her turbulent...

SHARPE IS BACK. If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe . . . And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he’s...

Every grandma is different, but they're ALL special! Is your grandma an actor or an acrobat? Is she an ambulance driver, an expert chef, or secret spy? Whatever your grandma does,...

In Kith, Jay Griffiths asks why that is, and through her examination of the very nature of childhood, exposes how contemporary society is denying children the time, space and place to enact...

'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary. Offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023 NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley...

A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it. From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where...

A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur Jaeggy....

A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023  The incredible true story of the SAS's daring mission to liberate Europe. In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for...

God Complex, Rachael Allen’s second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakup of a toxic relationship in the face of...

Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but in my case, it means woman. Meet Maddie. All her life, she's been told who she is. To her Ghanaian parents, she's Maame:...

DEFINITELY OLDER. NOT NECESSARILY WISER... Sisters Cleo and Robyn may be close in age but their attitudes to life could not be further apart. While Cleo's a fully-fledged adult with a...

Is murder in her DNA? My mother lied to me. My family is not my own. If it wasn’t for the genealogy test, I would never have known I was the...

Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators – very good at storing information,...

A terrifying accident . . . Alex Mullins knows she is one of the lucky ones. When a fatal coach crash at her school reunion killed several of her classmates, she...

Every grandad is different . . . but they're ALL special! Is your grandad an adventurer or an explorer? Is he a builder, an inventor, or a MAGICIAN? Whatever your grandad...

Get ready to be swept away. An irresistible YA romantasy – perfect for fans of Alexandra Christo, Sarah Underwood and Shelby Mahurin. Romance. Betrayal. Magic. The YA debut of 2024. Mira is...

Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t...

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5...

Murder on an abandoned housing development—and a web of dark secrets stretching back decades… Looking for clues about her sister’s death amid the crumbling decay of a derelict and near-deserted London...

Brendan Foley has worked to balance the responsibilities of a demanding job and a troublesome family. He’s managed to keep these two worlds separate, until the discovery of a mass...

In the North West criminal underworld, a deal goes tragically wrong, resulting in war between the two main organised crime factions in the region. Shockwaves rock the 30-mile gap between...

Two cities, two ruthless criminals, three of the force’s best. One night to end it all. The criminal underworld’s power has been gathering, with gangs from two cities that threaten to...

Jess Bright, single mum and journalist, feels her life has stalled. So when she's offered a writing job in Paris for the summer, she leaps at the chance to go....

Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do about it? In a fascinating journey through history and science, Human...

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag – showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions. A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag...

Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds, hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist, former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had exclusive access to our top politicians for...

Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost...

They say you know when you meet the one. The moment Eva locked eyes with James over a library bookshelf, she knew she’d found her soulmate. Over ten years, they fell...

The Forgotten Tower is an absorbing gothic tale about a castle full of dark secrets and buried history, from Sunday Times top ten bestselling author Lulu Taylor. Georgie never wanted to be a chatelaine, but...

Detective Scott Jericho returns in Jericho's Dead, the second gripping crime thriller by William Hussey - coming February 29, 2024. Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with...

Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected. Then a series...

Imagining England’s Past takes a long look at the country’s invented histories, from the glamorous to the disturbing, from the eighth century to the present day. England has long built its...

A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews – amassed over a lifetime of writing. In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took...

How do you track down a killer who might not even exist? You’d best be good or the River Man will get you… An Audible exclusive from thrilling new talent, R B...

It’s Christmas Eve, a family is sleeping, stockings hung expectantly above the fireplace, when a noise outside announces a night-time visitor… One of the most recognisable and best-loved Christmas tales, The...

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis. There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than...

‘With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ – Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender The year is 1521 in the Mexica city...

A fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship.  Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she...

'I seemed to be seeing double. I saw two Edies instead of one - but they weren't the same.' Edie is fascinated by Victorian times, and she's just desperate to be cast in...

Imperial China meets Edwardian England in this epic story of loves lost and gained set during the onset of the Opium Wars. Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that no...

The new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are...

A beautiful keepsake collection of calming wildlife stories to read at bedtime. Learn all about the projects that are rewilding the world with animals and saving our environment. More than 40,000 unique...

Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the mysteries...

The beautifully observed human dynamics of Sarah Moss meets the emo-apocalypse of The Last of Us, a gripping, moving novel about siblings, sex and the end of the world. Luke, Connor,...

If you knew how it would end, could you find the courage to begin? When Alec asks Jess out, she knows it won't work. He may be charming and handsome, but...

WINNER OF THE 2023 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries – such as Denmark – were within tight limits...

‘Girl A’ was convicted of murdering three people when she was a child. Now she’s missing and a man is dead. The clock is ticking for Scottish detective DCI Christine Caplan...

12 girls gone. Can she save The 13th Girl? After decades in a mental health hospital, Dee knows that people find her creepy – because they tell her so. Once the...

Jesse Spark has a broken heart and in a few short weeks he'll require major surgery to repair it - which means he only has a month to accomplish two...

Enemies. Rivals. Teammates. It's going to be a hell of a season. Gene Ionescu is content to play in the minor leagues. He's seen teammates get their big breaks, but as the...

Millie has seven days to save Annie Driscoll from a terrible fate. Millie doesn’t know how or why she has been brought into Annie’s life. But she’s sure of one thing: Annie...

Christmas is a time for family, but what if you have to choose yours? For ten years Hannah and Finn have spent Christmas together. With no one to enjoy the holidays...

Ellis’s life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her job’s insecure, her bank account’s empty and she has a mouthful of unreliable teeth....

Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her life and work by Swiftian Theory co-founder Satu-Hämeenaho-Fox. This is the book for all Swifties of every...

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023 With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the...

In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island...

A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England. Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting...

The fifth book in the beloved series of novels from Catherine Fox. In The Company of Heaven, we re-join our Lindchester friends on Easter Monday 2021, just as the third lockdown...

Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to...

In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights – all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think...

Seventy-five years after the publication of his classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell is experiencing a renaissance. Conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of ‘Orwellian’ censorship, while progressives denounce the...

'Who would name a child Sunshine, then give her away?' Chrissie has always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying to adopt, she and her husband Stuart finally get...

A piercing meditation on love and music, and the silence and inscrutability which underpins the performance of each. Luc has lived a long time as a soloist. She has not...

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What is it like to live in a world built by humans? These eight genre-blending stories reveal the complexity, beauty and fragility of wild lives - a brilliantly modern twist...

Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2023 Jason Allen-Paisant's debut collection Thinking With Trees won the 2022 OCM...

Find out what children eat all around the world in this beautifully illustrated book, written by bestselling poet and author Laura Mucha, alongside trained chef and food writer Ed Smith. From...

The mysterious goings on in Sticky Pines are coming to a head in the final instalment of this rip-roaring, sci-fi MG adventure series. HOT DIGGITY DANGER. The world is in MEGA...

The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St....

Magic and myth collide in this fast-paced middle-grade fantasy, a sequel to The Unmorrow Curse. Ever since Buzz and his friend Mari returned from their quest to save the Runes of...

In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing...

When a wife leaves her husband under suspicious circumstances, he sets off in search for her, unprepared for the guilty secrets he's about to drag back into the light. A man...

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5...

In a beautiful, green, wild wild wood lives a gentle mole. But then a SOLD sign appears in the wood one morning, and Mole decides to write a firmly worded...

Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner,...

It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are...

Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn’t know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is...

When a highly classified espionage operation breaks down, an MI5 prisoner escapes from a transport vehicle on the busy ring road outside Oxford. Now an armed and desperate man is...

Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed, and he's always been Jackson Lamb's Number Two. So when Lamb has...

One missing person. Ten sleepless nights. Whatever happens, don't close your eyes... Catherine is frantic. It's her husband Simon's turn to take their son to nursery and he's nowhere to be seen. He promised...

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared...

Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks,...

Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this...

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it's to keep his head down. Especially now, when he's living rent-free in a dead spook's flat. So he's not...

A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It’s also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones,...

In Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 'The UK's new spy master' Sunday Times London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's...

'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times Slough House is the outpost where disgraced spies are banished to see out the rest of their derailed...

Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies called the 'slow horses'. One of them, Catherine Standish, knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks. She's worked in the...

In a beach paradise, an unspeakable crime is committed. The only witness lies in a coma, fighting for her life... Australia's Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a...

When it's discovered that recently deceased spy Dieter Hess had a second bank account, John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. There's only ever one reason a spy...

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The slow-horses, as they're called, have all disgraced themselves. Some messed...

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting...

When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again - but then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in need of rescue. When Arkle, Baxter...

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, technofeudalism, in which the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords. In his...

Why do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes...

Careful what you look for. Careful what you find. After the mysterious death of her beloved sister, Tess is grief-stricken and lonely. She’s forced to BnB Rosie’s old room to pay...

'Through wonderful vignettes, Richards offers a masterful, clear-eyed and, above all, entertaining history of British politics. To pilot a better future, we need to learn how not to repeat the...

When a woman dies beneath the wheels of a train and her newly acquired lover fails to turn up at the funeral, private investigator Zoe Boehm is hired to find...

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker—a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life—becomes obsessed with finding...

Once Upon a Raven’s Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards...

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, and her estranged auntie who will stop at nothing to find the truth is perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial...

If most men say they’re one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night? Cole is the perfect husband; a romantic, supportive of...

From the moment I open my eyes, I know. Her bed is made, the wardrobe empty. There was something she wanted to tell me, but I didn't listen. Now she's gone. Eleven years...

Sometimes I Just WON'T is a hilarious and helpful book about the ever-changing moods of small children, from top picture book pairing, Timothy Knapman and Joe Berger. Being a toddler is an...

The final exhilarating adventure in the great outdoors, from HOTEL FLAMINGO author Alex Milway When Rosa wakes one morning to find Grandma Nan missing, she must use all of her survival...

News photographer Michael Mannis had done ‘a little business’ with MI5 before – but those were straightforward, small-time jobs with little danger and no consequences. When Mannis is offered an unusually...

NAMELESS ACTS OF CRUELTY 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...

What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies...

The remarkable story of three Yorkshire cricketers from the Golden Age – George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh – who transformed their county's fortunes, inspired a generation of cricketers...

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' —Philippe Sands Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west...

Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel and the sequel to Edge of the Grave, winner of Bloody Scotland's Scottish Crime Debut of the Year. Glasgow, 1933 Murder...

Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier...

Only a journalist goes where even the police fear to tread . . . Casey Benedict, the globe-trotting star reporter at London paper The Post, is tenacious, fearless, inventive – and still in...

An urgent and timely exploration of a British political system in peril and what we must do to save it. World-leading. World-beating. Global Britain. For centuries, British identity has been shaped by...

The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food...

The beautiful sequel to Bears Don’t Read! from renowned author/illustrator, Emma Chichester Clark, creator of Blue Kangaroo. The crowd went quiet. Then somebody whispered, “Bears don’t cry, do they?” George is no...

'Thrilling but deeply thought provoking, a combination that is truly rare' - Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a...

Worn out by poverty, Lettie Radley and her miner husband Tommy grasp at the offer of their very own smallholding - part of a Government scheme to put the unemployed...

Boo! Discover all the frightful stories behind iconic ghost tales and legends from around the world with history's most horrible headlines: the ghost and ghouls edition. The master of making history...

Nothing stays the same. The only constant we now face is change, and the demand for those who can grasp its opportunities has never been greater. Organisations today must learn...

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of the grand and mysterious house, a local delivery man makes...

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England’s south coast – and then in walked his old flame...

Four men had arranged to fly to Dublin. When their aeroplane descended as a fireball into the Irish Sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of...

One war, one soldier, one enduring love 1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria on the brink of the Second World War, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a...

Our skies are full of life! From bats and birds to bees and beetles, the air around us is buzzing with amazing flying creatures. Explore how and why animals fly, and...

Join ten adorable penguins for frost-filled fun in this charming rhyming counting adventure! Oh no! Granny Penguin isn't feeling very well so ten little penguins hatch a plan to cheer her...

Anthony Burgess expertly tackles the major monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser by Molière and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov. Miser, Miser! is a bold reworking of Molière’s classic comedy of 1668. Harpagon the...

NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 An unnerving, compelling and utterly contemporary debut novel about one woman's metamorphosis into an online phenomenon, from a Sunday...

John Clare was a titan in Australian politics. The head of a powerful union and a key player in the election of Kevin Rudd as prime minister in 2007, he...

Discover the most brilliant skills animals have ever evolved in a stylish and fascinating picture book. Body armour, seeing with sound, gliding without wings - wherever you look in the animal...

1989. The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie Burns is a woman on a mission. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most...

'Inspired by her own family history, this thriller has it all. Tense and thoughtful, with impeccable characterisation and historical detail... A compulsive nail-biter... Thought-provoking, emotional and suspenseful, it's a smasher.'...

An incisive study of the Western world's shift from institutional religion to more personal beliefs in the second half of the 19th century . . . This is intellectual history...

An ultimately inspiring story of how giraffes have dealt with modern climate change, beautifully told and illustrated – and marking the launch of an exciting new series. Once, this season of...

When 35-year-old Leni McKenzie is knocked off her bike, her family's world is turned upside down. Leni and her sister Alice were best friends as well as siblings. But did they...

In this beautifully illustrated book, Annie Bell shows you how to make delicious and winning camping recipes with just the barest essentials to hand. Using a travelling barbecue, one-ring burner...

When Carl visits the Peak District with his parents to try and recover from the fallout of a horrific accident, he becomes caught up in the mysterious tale of the...

Soup is the ultimate comfort food and caters to every appetite, age group, and occasion. There is soup that is quick to make, and soup that requires gentle, slow cooking....

Pay attention. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real world problems? Question everything. Drawing on decades of work in philosophy including a...

How should I live? What is my purpose? Can I find happiness? Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers...

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms...

It would be unfair to blame the woman I met tonight for turning my life upside down. She didn’t. It was already upside down. I just didn’t know it. Recently life has...

What is it about crime that we find so fascinating, even if at the same time the details are repugnant? Why are some crimes more newsworthy than others? And how...

Mab's mum is obsessed with fairies - she even named Mab after the Fairy Queen! Their flat is full of fairy ornaments, tiny fairy furniture and they've even got fairy...

A DI Ryan Wilkins Mystery (Book 2) A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her mother only a stones-throw away. A...

A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya. England, 1937. Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls,...

WINNER OF THE 2023 POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain – the great French hero...

Motherland meets Midsomer Murders in this fresh and funny mystery about a group of soon-to-be mums who turn detective when there's a murder at their antenatal class. For Alice and her partner Joe, moving...

Marx and Engels were right when they observed in The Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous...

For thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the landscapes they lived in. They imbued it with meaning: stone monuments, sacred groves, places of pilgrimage. In our...

In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age: whatever happened...

Ninth House meets The Atlas Six in the enemies-to-lovers dark academia debut everyone's talking about . . . Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf....

A gripping, provocative exploration of the National Health Service, told through the most critical moments in its history, and published ahead of the 75th anniversary of its foundation. Since its inception...

Where on Earth are you, right now? It’s late where I am and almost everyone’s asleep, but I’m awake, looking out into the night. Wondering… As the clock strikes midnight, a...

Minibeast fans will quickly become minibeast experts with this informative, inventive and entertaining take on an animal book! Do you know all there is to know about minibeasts? Bees die when...

Welcome to Atlas. What would you do for a second chance? Summer 1982. Deep in the Adirondack Mountains, over three hundred people live off-grid in a secret community. Atlas is a refuge...

Everything is changing at the Quality Street factory, can the plucky girls in the line make this a Christmas to remember? The Quality Street girls are gearing up for Christmas, but...

Gwen’s life has stalled. She’s in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the country and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around herbaceous borders...

Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to...

This is How the Change Begins is a collection of six illuminating poems inspired by the growing threat of climate change. From a consideration of our carbon footprints by way of...

In a dazzling new fantasy world full of whispered secrets and political intrigue, the magic of women is outlawed but three girls with unusual gifts have the chance to change...

Since 2017, UK terrorists have killed dozens and injured hundreds. But those atrocities – the ones on our evening news – are just the tip of a vast iceberg. Security...

Double nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration 2023. When animals talk, it's time humans listened: Harlon has been raised to protect her younger siblings, twins Ash and...

A fast-paced fantasy adventure set in a broken, future England, following the further exploits of the outlaws Scarlett and Browne. Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne have outwitted their pursuers and escaped...

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten year old Shughankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence in which his family are complicit: an act that...

The third and final edge-of-your-seat adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud funny Vi Spy series!   Vi has tried to save the Earth before … and failed. Now, her world faces a terrible threat: her Gran is...

Set in the early industrial revolution and the great canal building age, a young Jane Austen takes on the role of detective as she seeks to solve the mysterious events...

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive...

An inspiring tale from Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman celebrating the world’s most iconic train, Flying Scotsman, and its greatest fan, a young girl named Iris. Iris knows everything there is...

Another exhilarating adventure in the great outdoors, from HOTEL FLAMINGO author Alex Milway Welcome to Big Sky Mountain: a home for everyone! Life never stays still for long on Big Sky Mountain....

What is it like to be a plant? It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long explored the...

This spectacular lift-the-flap Christmas alphabet story is a book, a fold-out play-scene, and a beautiful festive frieze to decorate your room! Everyone is busy on Christmas Street! Who is baking gingerbread?...

Scarlett Fife has BIG FEELINGS. And when she tries to squash them down, they come back up with shocking results! Scarlett knows she should be happy about all the big news...

Kindness is a magical thing, and in this gentle picture book kindness comes from somewhere unexpected. When a seemingly ordinary blue umbrella is offered to provide shelter from the rain,...

In a world drained of colour, nothing is black and white . . . Early one morning, Grace wakes to find herself staring at an ashen sunrise in ominous grey skies....

A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for fans of The Enigma Game and Last Night at the Telegraph Club. Virginia, 1943: World War II...

Superstar illustrator Nick Sharratt takes inspiration from a celebration of the winter solstice in this charming and colourful Little Gem. On a dark winter’s evening at the end of December, something...

To betray, you must first belong.... In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the...

The keen-reading Robinsons set out to sea, their boat barely afloat with all their books, until a storm strikes down their holiday plans. Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, they gather...

Ten-year-old Leo dreams of performing in the West End. His love of dancing is getting him through the Luton heatwave, but his selective mutism is putting his spot in the...

Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics – and John Gribbin argues that...

Enjoy a book every day packed with how-to-doodles, mega make-and-do activities and stories to share, starring all your favourite characters, including Rooster, Marcus, Delia and Amy. A sturdy hardback with...

It’s Autumn’s first day at Sparkledale Dance Academy. She loves dance and gymnastics so being an official member is a dream come true! With lots of magical mishaps at the team...

Autumn Moonbeam loves gymnastics and dance so when Sparkledale Dance Academy have try-outs for their competitive dance team, Black Cats, she thinks it’s the most broom-tastic opportunity ever! Just one...

The second adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud funny Vi Spy series!   Vi is failing at top spy school Rimmington Hall – even though the school motto is ‘Failure is Not an Option’. To make...

From the Nation’s Favourite Storyteller Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a poetic celebration of our Queen and longest reigning monarch, beautifully illustrated in watercolour by acclaimed artist Michael Foreman. Created in...

When Bella opens her front door and finds an other-wordly, little stranger on the doorstep, her life changes forever! Cold, hungry and lost, the only word the stranger can say...

Full of friendship and adventure, these three uplifting stories capture the wonder, muck and magic of a city child’s week on the farm. Join in the daring rescue of a lost...

A magical, soothing story about a friendly tiger and a nighttime jungle. It's show-and-tell tomorrow and Rory is worried – he doesn't have anything special to share with the class. But...

Bestselling author and illustrator Liz Pichon gives you a step-by-step guide to drawing the wonderful characters from her blockbuster Tom Gates series, and more! The must-have art activity book for fans...

All aboard! Discover all the foul facts behind the story of trains and railways across the world with history's most horrible headlines: locomotive edition.   The master of making history fun, Terry...

Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians - but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper. The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends...

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he's doing. Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. There's...

From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding “yes” to the question of its title. At the heart of...

A PLAGUE - A VILLAGE - A LOCKDOWN 1665, Eyam, Derbyshire. 'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague' It is 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl...

From the author of the Pegasus series comes a spellbinding first book in a new fantasy series for fans of Rick Riordan and Shannon Messenger following two cousins whose summer...

It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul. Ever since she was cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has had...

Things are FREAKY and about to get even FREAKIER in the sleepy American town of Sticky Pines. Weirdness mounts upon creepiness to create a riotously funny potion in The Valley of...

Collaborating once more with iconic artist, Michael Foreman, Morpurgo's poems are inspired by The Carnival of the Animals – a humorous musical by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Building on this classic...

A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It makes no sense. The two factions have despised one another for all eternity. But . . . Leo the vampire and...

This first new novel in two years from the Nation’s Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue – an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca,...

It's TIDY UP Saturday, but Tom is VERY busy relaxing and not helping out much. Until he spots the art box of his dreams in a shop window and everything changes....

Martha LOVES drawing maps. She creates maps of everything-even her thoughts and dreams! Let Martha be your guide as she welcomes you to her world. Starting in outer space, we...

Are you ready to enter Goblyn Wood . . . ? Hazel has always known she was different, but she doesn’t know where she came from. When her best friend Pete...

The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the third instalment in Hoffman's epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth. Since discovering that...

Magic, romance, and slumbering gods clash in the start of a riveting fantasy series that spans gangsters' dens, forgotten temples, and the high seas from the New York Times bestselling...

Frozen Out is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a £100,000 prize.   The show...

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from...

An estranged daughter. A missing grandson. A mother faced with an impossible choice. Renee Gulliver appears to have it all: a beautiful house overlooking a scenic estuary on England’s East Coast,...

Two friends awaken a world of myth and magic in this epic middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of Rick Riordan. It's not every day that you find a famous...

Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen...

In 1960, fourteen-year-old Laura meets French exchange student, Leon. Her life will never be the same again. Things start to change for Laura - first her moods, and then her body. Laura...

Oh no! Tom's stuck at home with a fractured ankle and it's spoiling his fun. Doodling on his plaster cast helps to pass the time, along with visits from family (with treats),...

From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR...

Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, the clothes we wear tell a story...

Orla and her brother go to stay with their gran in Ireland. Grieving the death of their mum, the children revel in the comfort of their grandmother's house and her magical...

Three kids, Milo, Mia and Birdy, are on a countryside holiday when they wander into an Enchanted Wood. Among the whispering leaves, there is a beautiful tree that stands high...

Do you know which Cluedo character was killed off in 2016? How about which band has a species of shrimp named after it? Reckon you could guess the name of...

Together again after years apart, can they find a new beginning? The brilliant novel full of laughter, love, tears and hope from the Sunday Times bestselling author Milly Johnson. Sisters Jolene,...

An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers...

Folk tales take us beyond our own boundaries into unknown lands. Yet within these adventures, riddles and enchantments we find our common ground and shared humanity. Lost & Found is...

As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. His production work since the glory days of ZTT represents a veritable 'who's who' of...

Good food honed from great ingredients is the principle at the heart of Cooking. There are sections on the usefulness and frugality of breadcrumbs, black olive crumbs to serve with everything; impromptu...

'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' --Michael Palin History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed....

From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an out-of-this-world new series packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic. There is no Magic here on...

No man is an island, wrote John Donne. BBC Home Editor Mark Easton argues the opposite: that we are all islands, and it is upon the contradictory shoreline where isolation...

What happens if you meet a Fear? It's a frightening thing, and it's different for us all. Some are helpful and keep us safe, others cannot be explained. You can...

Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson...

Life for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather out of his control. Upstairs, at 44 Scotland Street, his father Stuart is powerless to stop over-bearing...

Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and...

A family mix-up means Louie has to tag along with his engineer father and his team as they head for a routine job in the farthest flung and most neglected...

The second instalment in the bestselling Aurora Cycle series. Our heroes are back. Kind of. First, the bad news: An ancient evil – you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal – is about...

Not every fight is won by heroes. Sometimes, you need a monster. The sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and...

America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . . ________ Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant hero - has been running...

The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, bestselling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be...

THE DARK WILL RISE. WHO WILL FALL? WHO WILL STAND? The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between...

A long, long time ago, a girl lived with her tribe in a cave. As she had no parents of her own, her pet cave bear was her best friend....

SHARPE IS BACK. The global bestseller Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man...

A gorgeously illustrated book about friendship and looking past differences from the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner Catherine Rayner. Bear is walking through the forest, minding his own business when he...

When the headmistress invites her past favourite pupil to attend their end of term ball, Cassandra brings her younger sister, Jane, along too. Cassandra plunges into the feverish excitement of...

AN ENTHRALLING GHOST STORY WITH A TIME-TRAVELLING TWIST 'When you come to the house, you will hear strange tales. They will tell you in the village that it is haunted, but...

Welcome to Big Sky Mountain: a home for everyone! There is never a dull day on Big Sky Mountain! Rain or shine, there is always something that needs doing. Rosa and...

Save a lot of energy and keep our world clean. For every kind of living thing let's try to be more green. Zippy wordplay and zappy art make learning about eco-friendly inventions fun as...

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The...

Constance in Peril is a brilliantly funny story from the creators of the critically acclaimed The Misadventures of Frederick, a Sunday Times Children's Book of the Year. Told with all Ben Manley's characteristic wit and...

We are all on Earth but for a fleeting moment, yet no two lives are the same. From the delicate mayfly, which lives for just a few precious hours, to...

After the storm it's time for a fresh start . . . First, the clouds... Tara Hunter is a therapist on a mission to restore Longhampton's community spirit after catastrophic flooding. But...

Once it was a family home. Now they are all at sea . . . When Anna and David receive a phone call late one evening, their lives are upturned. Within...

Hilda Snibbs takes her three mischievous little monkeys to stay with her Uncle Gilbert for Christmas. Among many amazing things, Uncle Gilbert’s prized possession is an ancient golden teapot, so...

Camden mortuary technician Cassie Raven returns to solve another ingenious forensic mystery. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.  Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the last thoughts...

One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work...

I have held you every night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband...

A captivating, illustrated young fiction novel about a kind girl and a lost bear cub, with a classic feel from the much-loved, award-winning author-illustrator. Are you brave enough to enter the...

'An enlightening guide to how scientists get inside the minds of other animals’ —Henry Mance, Financial Times Dr Sean Wensley is an award-winning vet and lifelong naturalist who has contributed to...

'A funhouse of a novel' - Wendy Erskine 'McCracken is a firecracker stylist' - Sunday Times Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts – ever since she was discovered...

The spellbinding new novel from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Pick The Glass House ________ Some secrets need to be set free . . . Twenty years after their last visit,...

The last surviving dinosaur kingdoms are waging war in the kingdoms of Cretacea. When the Fallen Star struck, it brought death and despair, ash and toxic rain. But some dinosaurs survived...

...I thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. The book returned to the shelf, taken down...

Russian defectors are dying and only Charles Thoroughgood can make it stop ‘He saw Cleaner Bob arrive that morning, the morning of his death.’ In the peaceful towns and villages of England,...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Or to live high in the tree tops? Or perhaps you've wondered what birds do when no one is...

I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me have fresh cream cakes every Saturday. They're sweet enough to take the edge...