For over ten years L V Matthews worked both in domestic and international sales for major UK publishing houses, before leaving to pursue a career in writing. Silent Waters is her newest thriller, published in 2023. The Twins was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Book Link: Silent Waters 

Nishani Reed - "I live in leafy Godalming with my husband Philip, our children Jem and Chloe and our giant dog-child Elsie Doodle. Our life in Surrey is very different to the one I had growing up in a South Asian family in Manchester! I never thought I would become an author. Books were so [...]

Tim Weaver is the Sunday Times bestselling author of thirteen novels, including No One Home, The Blackbird and The Last Goodbye, and a short story collection. He is also the host and producer of the chart-topping Missing podcast and is currently developing an original TV series with the team behind Line of Duty. A former journalist and magazine editor, he lives near Bath with his [...]

One of the UK's premiere authors of dark Gothic tales - for both adults and children - Michelle Paver was born in Malawi and raised in England. After a high-flying career as a partner in a big City law firm, Michelle gave up the City to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer. She [...]

In a former life, Nikki worked as a financial journalist. She now writes fiction from a small village near Amersham, where she lives with her husband and three children. Her first novel, On Wilder Seas (2020), was shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society’s New Novel Award and selected for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation’s [...]

Nadia Attia is a BFI Network Talent Executive and a published journalist. In 2019 she won the FAB (Faber) prize for fiction and was selected for the London Writers Awards. A graduate of the Curtis Brown novel-writing course, Nadia has been published in Spread the Word's City of Stories anthology, Star Songs and Luna Station [...]

Sophie Deen is an entrepreneur, an award-winning author and a former lawyer, techie and school counsellor who believes wholeheartedly in the power of stories to inspire the next generation. Before writing the Agent Asha trilogy, Sophie worked with Code Club, Google, and the Department for Education to implement the computing curriculum in primary schools across [...]

Marisa Noelle writes tense and pacy middle grade & young adult novels in dystopian, science-fiction, fantasy, and horror, all with mental health representation. Her books include the multi-award-winning The Unraveling of Luna Forester, The Shadow Keepers, The Unadjusteds Trilogy (The Unadjusteds, The Rise of the Altereds, & The Reckoning), The Mermaid Chronicles – Secrets of [...]

Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. He has written eight books for children, including Mutant Zombies Cursed My School Trip which won the FCBG Children’s Book Award in 2020. Before dyeing his hair grey for fashion reasons, Matt presented on some of the UK’s most popular TV shows and he [...]

© Phil Sharp Chris MacDonald is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor, who attended a top UK Drama School whose alumnae include Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender. His debut play Eye of a Needle played at the Southwark Playhouse and as an actor he's worked for the BBC, the RSC and Amazon Studios among others. [...]