Alistair Morgan is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. His short stories have twice appeared in The Paris Review. In 2009 he won the George Plimpton Prize for Fiction for his stories Icebergs and Departure, which was also selected for the National Magazine Awards. His story Icebergs was short-listed for the 2009 Caine Prize… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
Damon Galgut
Damon is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born in Pretoria in 1963 and studied drama at the University of Cape Town, writing his first novel, A Sinless Season (Jonathan Ball, 1984), when he was seventeen. Small Circle of Beings (Lowry Publishers, 1988), a collection of short stories, was followed by the… Read more »
K.J. Whittaker
K J Whittaker is the Carnegie-nominated author of six YA novels published by Walker Books under the name Katy Moran. False Lights, set in England in 1817, two years after Napoleon has won the Battle of Waterloo, was published by Head of Zeus in 2017. ‘The quality of the story in itself is sufficient to… Read more »
Kirsty Wark
An experienced, award-winning television journalist, Kirsty’s debut novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle (2014), takes place against the deeply atmospheric background of Aran Island off the West coast of Scotland where the heroine Martha inherits a beautiful house by chance and thus discovers its tragic history. It was bought in a two book deal by… Read more »
Martin Walker
Martin Walker is the author of the hugely successful Bruno series of crime novels, following on a country policeman in France’s Perigord region who loves to cook but hates to make arrests. They have been translated into 16 languages with nearly 4 million global sales. The Bruno cookbook recently won the Gourmand International Award. Bruno’s… Read more »
Henry Sutton
Henry Sutton is the author of the highly acclaimed Goodwin trilogy: Time to Win (Corsair, 2017), Red Hot Front (Corsair, 2018), and Good Dark Night (Corsair, 2018), published under the pseudonym Harry Brett. The series was described by Ian Rankin as ‘The Godfather in Great Yarmouth’. Henry Sutton is also the co-author of The Sunday Times top… Read more »
Alex Reeve
Alex Reeve was born in Twickenham and now lives in Marlow, Buckinghamshire with his wife and two sons. His debut novel The House on Half Moon Street, the first book in a historical crime series, was published by Bloomsbury for their new Raven list in May 2018 and selected as a Richard and Judy paperback… Read more »
Penny Rudge
Penny Rudge’s blackly comic first novel Foolish Lessons in Life and Love, published by Little, Brown (2010), is set in contemporary London, where 23-year-old Taras Krohe is wedged between the two women in his life: Katya, his Russian girlfriend, who is struggling to fund her way through college, and Mami, his overbearing Bukovinian mother. Bumbling… Read more »
Meg Rosoff
Meg is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of Homerton College, Cambridge. She is a regular on BBC Radio and presented a half hour segment of Artsnight for BBC2 TV. In 2004 her first novel, How I Live Now, was published by Penguin to a blaze of universal acclaim. It sold in… Read more »
Iain Pears
Iain Pears is an art historian, novelist and journalist. He was born in Coventry and currently lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for various media outlets, such as the BBC and Reuters. He is the writer of the international bestseller, An Instance of the Fingerpost,… Read more »