Will is a journalist and nature writer. His powerful family memoir The Wolf Pit was published by Chatto in April 2012. He was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award for his story, Two Bad Thumbs, written entirely in text messages and he has been shortlisted for the prize twice before. Will’s fiction debut,… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
Francesca Brill
Francesca is a screenwriter whose first novel The Harbour sold to Bloomsbury in the UK and to a number of other European territories. It’s a passionate love story set in Shanghai and Hong Kong before, during and after the Japanese invasion of 1941. Francesca was chosen as one of Amazon’s rising stars for 2012 and… Read more »
Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is a novelist, short-story writer and prize-winning author of literary and cultural history. She is the author, editor or co-editor of over twenty books. Her novels include The Shouting in the Dark (longlisted Sunday Times prize, 2015, winner Olive Schreiner Award for Prose, 2019), and Screens against the Sky (shortlisted David Higham Prize,… Read more »
Adam Brookes
Adam Brookes is an author whose writing draws on his years in China and his study of Chinese, as well as his years as a journalist and foreign correspondent. Adam was born in Canada, but grew up in the UK. He studied Chinese at SOAS, University of London. His first job in broadcast journalism was… Read more »
Rhidian Brook
Rhidian Brook is an award-winning writer of fiction. His first novel, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (Penguin, 2014), won several prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award. His third, The Aftermath (Penguin, 2014), was an international bestseller and has been translated into twenty-five languages; and made into a major motion picture. His latest novel – The… Read more »
Stephen Burke
Stephen is a novelist, scriptwriter and director. His first novel The Good Italian (2014) sold to Hodder & Stoughton in a two-book deal. Set in Eritrea in 1935 when it was an Italian colony, it tells the story of Enzo, a shy Italian man who is the harbour master in Massawa. His life is transformed… Read more »
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels and one collection of short stories. He was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Vintage, 1994) was an international bestseller and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. A Partisan’s Daughter (Vintage, 2008)… Read more »
Carlos Acosta
The greatest male ballet dancer of his generation, Carlos was the lead principal dancer at The Royal Ballet and now runs Acosta Danza in Cuba. He is an extraordinary writer. His memoir No Way Home tells the story of the eleventh child of a truck driver in the slums of Havana who was a delinquent… Read more »
Susan Beale
Susan Beale’s first novel, The Good Guy, sold at auction to John Murray and was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa First Novel Award. Set in New England in the years leading up to the sexual revolution, the book explores the human capacity for deception, particularly self-deception. Susan’s second novel, Misplaced Persons (John Murray, 2022) looks at Europe’s… Read more »
Stanley Kenani
Stanley Kenani is a Malawian writer, one of the winners of the SA PEN/HSBC Literary Award. He was short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2008 & 2012. In August 2011, Random House Struik in South Africa published his first book, For Honour, a collection of 11 short stories which present the nation of… Read more »