Christie Watson
Christie Watson is a professor of medical humanities at UEA, and worked as an NHS nurse for over twenty years. She has written six books, including her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel Award, and the memoir, The Language of Kindness, which was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Christie is a contributor to the Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and TEDx, and her work has been translated into twenty-three languages and adapted for theatre. Moral Injuries, her latest novel, is publishing March 14th (UK) and June (US).
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HEALING explores her diagnosis of and treatment for breast cancer, viewed in terms of her own work as an oncology nurse. Brown's sad realization is that modern health care is sorely lacking in compassion for patients, but she also shows how compassion could be restored.
Brown, a nurse, is also the author of the New York Times Bestseller THE SHIFT, and CRITICAL CARE, a memoir of her first year working as a nurse. After working clinically for ten years, Brown decided to dedicate herself to writing full-time, though she very much misses working at the bedside. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and -
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Dorothy Koomson
Hello, my name's Dorothy Koomson and I'll try to make this bit that's all about me as interesting as possible.
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I wrote my first novel called There's A Thin Line Between Love And Hate when I was 13. I used to write a chapter every night then pass it around to my fellow convent school pupils every morning, and they seemed to love it.
I grew up in London and then grew up again in Leeds when I went to university. I eventually returned to London to study for my masters degree and stayed put for the following years. I took up various temping jobs and eventually got my big break writing, editing and subbing for various women's magazines and national papers.
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Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Bérot, puéricultrice et auteur de livres jeunesse.
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En 1994, elle publie son premier roman, Jehanne. Dans Léo et Lola paru en 1996, elle aborde le thème de l'inceste. En 1999, avec Tout pour Titou, elle « écrit un roman d'une rare noirceur », selon Claude Mesplède. Notre père qui êtes odieux, publié en 2000, est un roman de la série du Poulpe qui se déroule dans les Pyrénées de son enfance. -
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Francesca Segal
Winner of the 2012 Costa Prize for First Fiction.
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Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
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Juan Tallón
Juan Tallón Salgado, nacido en Vilardevós (Ourense) en 1975, es un periodista y escritor gallego.
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Licenciado en Filosofía, trabaja en el campo del periodismo y la comunicación.
Fue corresponsal del periódico La Región y después jefe de prensa de la Secretaría General de Emigración hasta 2008. Trabajó en la Cadena SER, en la revista Jot Down, y en El Progreso.
Participante en diferentes publicaciones colectivas, obtuvo con su primera novela el VI Premio Nicomedes Pastor Díaz.
En 2013 publica «El váter de Onetti» en castellano, al no encontrar editores que quisieran publicarlo en gallego, idioma en el que estaba escrito originalmente.
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Holly Bourne
Holly started her writing career as a news journalist, where she was nominated for Best Print Journalist of the Year. She then spent six years working as an editor, a relationship advisor, and general ‘agony aunt’ for a youth charity – helping young people with their relationships and mental health.
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Inspired by what she saw, she started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling, award-winning ‘Spinster Club’ series which helps educate teenagers about feminism. When she turned thirty, Holly wrote her first adult novel, 'How Do You Like Me Now?', examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark.
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Emma Gannon
Emma Gannon is the Sunday Times bestselling author of eight books, including ‘A Year of Nothing‘ and ‘Olive’, her debut novel, which was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, ‘Table for One’, published in 2025 with HarperCollins. Emma also runs the popular Substack newsletter, ‘The Hyphen’, which has thousands of paid subscribers. She also hosts creativity retreats all over the world and was a judge for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
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T.M. Logan
Tim’s thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in translation in 22 other countries including Italy, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, South Korea, Romania and the Netherlands.
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His 2025 novel, THE DAUGHTER, opens as Lauren arrives to pick up her daughter from university at the end of her first term – only to find a stranger answering the door. Evie’s not there, has not been there for weeks, in fact she's vanished without trace. With her young son in tow, Lauren sets off on a desperate search into the dark heart of London to find Evie before she’s lost forever…
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Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a doctor, while her father is an engineer. She spoke Tatar at home and learned Russian only after she started going to daycare.
She studied at the Department of Foreign Languages in the Tatar State University of Humanities and Education. In 1999, she moved to Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow School of Film with a degree in screenwriting.
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Ronya Othmann
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Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie vielfach ausgezeichnet u.a. mit dem Aufenthaltsstipendium im Künstlerhaus Lukas 2015, den MDR-Literaturpreis 2015. 2017 gewann sie den Caroline-Schlegel-Förderpreis für Essay und den Open Mike für Lyrik, 2018 erhielt sie mit Beliban zu Stolberg und Eser Aktay zusammen das Grenzgängerstipendium für die Türkei der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung. 2019 erhielt sie den Publikumspreis beim Ingeborg-Bachmann -
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I’m Jessica Stanley, an Australian novelist living in London.
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I grew up in Melbourne, studied in Canberra, and worked in journalism, on the set of the TV show Neighbours, for the trade union movement, and in advertising.
Since moving to the UK in 2011, I’ve been working as a freelance copywriter while writing fiction. My Australian first novel A Great Hope was published in 2022.
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He was 23 when he first won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod which he went on to win three years in a row.
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies. It has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and will be a major new comedy drama for the BBC.
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His second book "Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas" was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies in its first few weeks.
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J.D. Remy
Dr. J.D. Remy has been a practicing emergency physician since 1995. Born in New York City, he and his sister were raised in the suburbs of New Jersey by their mother and stepfather. After graduating medical school in Washington DC, he completed an emergency medicine residency in Baltimore and has since worked full-time in several emergency departments througout the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. During his career he has served as medical director for local EMS agencies, president of his hospital’s medical staff, and has led five medical missions to Haiti from 2010 to 2015. In his spare time, he enjoys running and playing acoustic guitar.
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Monty Don
Montagu Denis Wyatt Don OBE VMH (born George Montagu Don) has been gardening on TV for over 25 years for ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, and since 2003 has been the lead presenter on BBC TV's Gardeners' World which from 2011 has been filmed in his own garden in Herefordshire - Longmeadow.
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He is a longstanding organic gardener and was President of the Soil Association from 2008 to 2017.
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Aoife Abbey
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Danielle Ofri
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Sophie Flynn
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Danya Kukafka
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Lesley Kelly
Lesley has worked in the public and voluntary sector for the past twenty years, dabbling in poetry and stand-up comedy along the way.
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She has won a number of writing competitions, including the Scotsman's Short Story award in 2008. 'A Fine House in Trinity' was long-listed for the McIlvanney Award for the best Scottish crime novel in 2016.
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Anna Kent
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At 26 years old, when working for MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), in a conflict zone she attended a birth in a tropical storm, by the light of a headtorch. Later, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 stateless Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, Anna soon learned that even at home, the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted.
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