Anna Hope studied at Oxford University and RADA. She is the author of four novels. Her powerful first novel, Wake (2014), sold to Transworld in a seven-way auction and has now been translated into over 20 languages. It was called ‘a masterclass in historical fiction’ by the Observer and shortlisted for New Writer of the Year at the… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
Gill Hornby
Gill is a journalist whose debut novel, The Hive, sold to Little, Brown UK in a heated auction. US rights were pre-empted by Reagan Arthur Books. It’s about a group of women who meet at the school gates each day and – under the guise of the school’s charity committee – scheme, support, compete and… Read more »
Sally Gardner
Sally Gardner is a multi-award winning novelist, whose books have sold over 2 million copies in the UK and been translated into more than 25 languages. Sally earned a First Class Honours degree from Central St. Martin’s Art School and worked for many years as a theatre designer, working on some notable productions. After her… Read more »
Catherine Hall
Catherine’s first novel, Days of Grace, about an old woman looking back at her turbulent past, was bought by Portobello Books and published in the UK in February 2009 to great critical acclaim. It was selected as one of Waterstones’ New Voices for Spring 2009 and Catherine was chosen as one of Amazon’s rising stars… Read more »
Kat Gordon
Kat Gordon’s first novel The Artificial Anatomy of Parks, was published by Legend Press in 2015 and shortlisted for ‘Not the Booker.’ Her second novel The Hunters, set in Kenya between 1925 and 1937, is a sweeping coming-of-age about 15-year old Theo and his sister Maud who move to Kenya when their father becomes Director… Read more »
Will Eaves
Will Eaves was born in Bath in 1967 and educated at the University of Cambridge. His novels include The Oversight (Picador, 2001), shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and The Absent Therapist (CB Editions, 2014), shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. A collection of poems, Sound Houses, was published in 2011 by Carcanet Press. The… Read more »
T.A. Cotterell
T.A.Cotterell’s first novel, the psychological thriller What Alice Knew, was published in paperback by Transworld in May 2017. The e-book was released on December 1st 2016. A limited edition hardback was published in association with the bookseller Goldsboro Books, for whom it was ‘Book of the Month’ in April 2017. T.A.Cotterell read History of Art… Read more »
Humphrey Carpenter (Estate of)
Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005) was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children’s writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC before becoming a full-time author in 1975. He wrote biographies of Tolkien, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, Robert Runcie, Archbishop… Read more »
Liza Cody
Liza Cody is the award-winning author of many novels and short stories. Her Anna Lee detective series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction, sold in many languages and became a television series starring Imogen Stubbs. Of Backhand, shortlisted for the Edgar, Publishers Weekly wrote ‘with restrained prose, cracking dialogue and perfectly… Read more »
Lucy Cavendish
Lucy is a well-known journalist and writes regularly for The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph and The Independent. Her first novel Samantha Smythe’s Modern Family Journal was published by Michael Joseph in spring 2008 to excellent reviews. Her second novel in the same series, Lost and Found, was published in March 2009 and the third, Storm… Read more »