Author type: Fiction

Tony Pollard is an academic and broadcaster. He is Professor of Conflict History and Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and has carried out pioneering archaeological investigations across the globe and as a forensic archaeologist has worked with police forces in the UK. Whether he’s writing academic papers or books for a wider audience his… Read more »

Ciarán McMenamin was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in 1975. A graduate of the RSAMD, he has worked for the past twenty years as an actor in film, television and theatre. His acclaimed first novel, Skintown (Doubleday, 2017), was a WHSmith Fresh talent pick, and his second novel The Sunken Road (Vintage, 2021) was longlisted… Read more »

Kevin Maher was born and brought up in Dublin, moving to London in 1994 to begin a career in journalism. He wrote for Guardian, the Observer and Time Out and was film editor of the Face until 2002, and before joining The Times where for the last seven years he has been a feature writer,… Read more »

Thomas Leveritt is half-American, half-British. He is a novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money (Vintage, 2008), was hailed as ‘dazzling’ by the Guardian and won both a Betty Trask Award for a first novel and a Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors. He is also an award… Read more »

Robert Lautner was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children.

Oliver is Associate Publisher at Hodder and was the long-time editor of both Stephen King and John Grisham. Caller Unknown is his first novel.