At 80, Rosamunde decided to retire from writing. But with publication of Winter Solstice (St Martin’s Press, 2001), her final novel, she hit No 1 on the US and UK Bestseller Lists. It was a natural successor to Coming Home (Hodder, 1995) which, like The Shell Seekers (St Martin’s Press, 1987), sold many millions. As ever,… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
James Naughtie
For many years a political correspondent on The Scotsman and then The Guardian, Jim Naughtie became a household name first as presenter of Radio 4’s The World at One and then of The Today Programme. He is now a special correspondent for BBC News and presents Radio 4’s Bookclub, and has also chaired the Man… Read more »
Sarah K Marr
Sarah K. Marr wrote her atmospheric historical novel All The Perverse Angels (Unbound, 2018) after studying law, anthropology and theoretical physics at the Universities of Oxford, Manchester and London, respectively. She currently lives in London, where she spends too much time in art galleries and buys too many second-hand books. Her debut novel tells the… Read more »
Jennifer Nadel
Jennifer Nadel is a qualified barrister, author, speaker, campaigner and an award-winning journalist. She’s reported for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN from around the world. Her book on the Sarah Thornton case highlighted the way the law discriminates against women who’ve experienced domestic violence and was made into a BBC Film and Channel 4… Read more »
Katy Moran
Katy is a former editor at Scholastic and now lives in Shropshire with her husband and three sons. She is a Carnegie-nominated author of six YA novels published by Walker Books. Her brilliant first novel, Bloodline, was an Amazon New Voices title, and shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2009. Bloodline Rising and Spirit Hunter… Read more »
Tim Leach
Tim Leach is a novelist, specialising in historical fiction. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was published in 2013 by Atlantic and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize that year. He is also the author of The King and the Slave (Atlantic Book, 2014) and The Smile of the Wolf (Head of Zeus, 2018)…. Read more »
Simon Lelic
Simon Lelic is the author of the psychological suspense novel, The House (Penguin, 2017), a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice, as well as Rupture (Picador, 2010) which was the winner of a Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the John Creasy New Blood Dagger and Galaxy Book Awards. His The Child Who (Picador, 2012) was… Read more »
Liza Klaussmann
Liza worked as a journalist for The New York Times from 2001-2011. Her first novel, Tigers in Red Weather, sold in a two book deal to Picador in an eight publisher auction, and was pre-empted by Little, Brown in the US. Published in 2012, Tigers in Red Weather entered the Sunday Times Bestsellers list, won the British… Read more »
Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston is a screenwriter and novelist. Her non-fiction book Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found was published by S&S in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK (2010). It was serialised in The Sunday Times and praised by Salman Rushdie, Simon Schama, Andrew Harvey and Lynn Barber, among others. Her first… Read more »
Sarah Jasmon
Sarah Jasmon lives on the Leeds/Liverpool canal in Lancashire, which is also the setting for her first novel The Summer of Secrets (Black Swan, 2015) (‘An evocative and atmospheric coming-of-age story’ – Carys Bray). Her second novel, You Never Told Me, was published in March 2020, and follows Charlie as she traces her mother’s hidden past… Read more »