Abdullah, Kia
Kia Abdullah is the bestselling author of five novels. She has been longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and won the Adult Fiction Diverse Book Award (2022) and a JB Priestley Award for Writers of Promise (2020). She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian and the FT among others, and has […]
Seiffert, Rachel
Rachel Seiffert has published five novels, Once The Deed Is Done, A Boy in Winter, The Dark Room, Afterwards, and The Walk Home, and one collection of short stories, Field Study. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, and longlisted three times for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, most […]
Persaud, Ingrid
Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer, artist and former legal academic who lives in London. Her prize-winning debut novel Love After Love, (Faber & Faber 2020) won the Costa First Novel Award (2020), Author’s Club First Novel Award (2020) and the Indie Book Award for Fiction (2021). Her short story The Sweet Sop also won the BBC National Short […]
Bradman, Tony
Tony is an award-winning writer of children’s books. He has written poetry, picture books and stories for all ages, including historical fiction set in a wide range of periods – he was made a Fellow of the Historical Association in 2022. He has edited many anthologies, has been active in authors’ organisations – he was […]
Gunaratne, Guy
Guy is a British novelist and playwright, and winner ofthe Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, as well as a longlistee for the Booker, Goldsmith’s and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy served as Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and is the current editor of The Review by Writers Mosaic […]
Gbadamosi, Gabriel
Gabriel is an Irish and Nigerian poet and playwright. His London novel Vauxhall won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair. He was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths; a Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge; and Writer in Residence […]
Crooks, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Crooks is a writer of novels, short stories and radio dramas. Fire Rush, her novel, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Jhalak Prize, the Authors Club Best First Novel Award and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and selected as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, published […]
Evans, Martina
Martina Evans is an Irish poet, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork and has lived in London since 1988. The author of thirteen books of prose and poetry, Evans’s first novel, Midnight Feast, (Sinclair-Stevenson) won a Betty Trask Award in 1996. This was followed by The Glass Mountain (Sinclair-Stevenson 1997) and her third […]
Day, Elizabeth
Elizabeth is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her five novels include Scissors Paper Stone (which won a Betty Trask Award), The Party (a Richard & Judy Book Club pick) and the Sunday Times bestseller Magpie. She has also written four works of non-fiction, including How To Fail (which was born out of the chart-topping podcast […]
Dunant, Sarah
Sarah studied history at Newnham College, Cambridge from where she went on to become a writer, broadcaster, teacher and critic. She has written 12 novels, four of which have been shortlisted for awards, and edited two books of essays. She worked for many years for the BBC in radio and television including BBC 2’s arts […]
Gupta, Sunetra
Sunetra is the author of the novels Memories of Rain, The Glassblower’s Breath, Moonlight into Marzipan, A Sin of Color and, most recently, So Good in Black. Her novels have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Southern Arts Literature Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian […]
Hannah, Sophie
Sophie is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling writer of crime fiction, poetry, short stories, self-help books and musical theatre librettos. Her books are published in 49 languages and 51 countries and have sold millions of copies worldwide. At the request of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, she […]