Veronika Dapunt
Veronika Dapunt is a British-Austrian author. Her debut novel, Death and Other Occupational Hazards, was a runner-up for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize. She lives in London with an opinionated mini-schnauzer called Cosette.
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Andrew Hunter Murray
Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer from London. His first novel, The Last Day, is a high-concept thriller set in a world whose rotation has slowed to a halt. The Last Day will be published in the UK and USA in February 2020 by Penguin Random House.
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For ten years, Andrew has been one of the writers and researchers behind the BBC show QI. He is one of the co-hosts of QI’s spin-off podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish, which since 2014 has released 250 episodes, been downloaded 200 million times, and toured the world. It has also spawned three books (The Book of the Year, The Book of the Year 2018 and The Book of the Year 2019), and a BBC2 series, No Such Thing As The News.
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Kate Mascarenhas
Kate Mascarenhas is a writer.
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Born in 1980, she is of mixed heritage (white Irish father, brown British mother) and has family in Ireland and the Republic of Seychelles.
She studied English at Oxford and Applied Psychology at Derby. Her PhD, in literary studies and psychology, was completed at Worcester.
Since 2017 Kate has been a chartered psychologist. Previously she has been an advertising copywriter, bookbinder, and doll’s house maker. She lives in the English midlands with her partner.
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Terry Deary
A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.
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A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.
The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.
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Hannah King
Hannah King is a novelist from County Down. She studied for both her BA in English and MA in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast, graduating in 2017. Her debut novel She and I, a literary thriller about claustrophobic friendship and the danger of assumptions, was published by Bloomsbury Raven in 2022. TV rights have been optioned and Hannah is working on her second Northern Ireland-based novel.
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Hannah enjoys reading literary thrillers, contemporary fiction and any books that make you go right back to the start after finishing, wondering how on earth you missed THAT.
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Becky C. Brynolf
Becky C. Brynolf has worked in social media for a long time and has been a crime fiction fan for much longer. After ten years in London, she’s relocated to her childhood home of Scotland with her husband, baby, and mad Border Collie. Becky hopes to do justice to Scotland’s rich tradition of crime writers. I Found a Body is Becky’s first novel.
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Becky C. Brynolf
Becky C. Brynolf has worked in social media for a long time and has been a crime fiction fan for much longer. After ten years in London, she’s relocated to her childhood home of Scotland with her husband, baby, and mad Border Collie. Becky hopes to do justice to Scotland’s rich tradition of crime writers. I Found a Body is Becky’s first novel.
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Ray Celestin
Hello. I write novels and screenplays and very occasionally, short stories and comic-books.
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My new latest novel, Sunset Swing, was published in paperback in August. It’s the final instalment in the multi-award-winning ‘City Blues Quartet’ -- a series of novels plotting the intertwined history of Jazz and the Mob through six decades in the 20th century.
Sunset Swing won two daggers at this year’s CWA (Crime Writer Association) awards:
The Golden Dagger for best crime novel of the year
The Historical Dagger for best historical novel of the year
It’s also had a great response from reviewers:
The Times ‘Books of the Year’
The Financial Times ‘Books of the Year’
Five Star review in The Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Times ‘Historical Novel of the Month’
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Fiza Saeed McLynn
Fiza Saeed McLynn read History at Oxford University and had a brief career in finance before spending the next 12 years helping the bereaved as part of her work as a complementary therapist. She lives in London with her American husband, and two children. The Midnight Carousel is her debut novel.
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Lucy Roth
I also write as Lucy Nichol. When Sally Killed Harry is my debut thriller. I'm often told I'm far too angry, I count being blocked by Piers Morgan as an achievement, and I refuse to choose between Meghan and Kate just because they're both women. Ditto Courtney and Kat. My earlier books include The Twenty Seven Club, Parklife and No Worries if Not. I've also written previously for Sarah Millican's Standard Issue Magazine, and media titles including The I Paper, The Independent, Metro, NME and many more.
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Lucy Roth
I also write as Lucy Nichol. When Sally Killed Harry is my debut thriller. I'm often told I'm far too angry, I count being blocked by Piers Morgan as an achievement, and I refuse to choose between Meghan and Kate just because they're both women. Ditto Courtney and Kat. My earlier books include The Twenty Seven Club, Parklife and No Worries if Not. I've also written previously for Sarah Millican's Standard Issue Magazine, and media titles including The I Paper, The Independent, Metro, NME and many more.
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S.M. Govett
S. Govett graduated from Oxford University with a First in Law. She qualified as a solicitor in a top London law firm but soon grew disenchanted with the corporate world. She set up her own tutoring agency which gave her the idea for her first YA novel The Territory. The Territory won the TSBA in 2018 and the Gateshead Teen Book Award and the trilogy still frequently tops the most borrowed books lists in British school libraries. She has written other Young Adult novels, including the TSBA-shortlisted We Go On Forever and co-wrote the feature film - T.I.M. – a thriller which premiered on Netflix UK in August 2023, reaching number one in their most watched films list. She lives in London with her husband and three children.
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Catriona Stewart
Catriona Stewart lives in San Francisco and works in communications. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, The San Francisco Chronicle, Jewish Currents, Lilith Magazine and more. People Pleaser is her debut novel.
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Georgia Leighton
Georgia Leighton lives in London with her family. Her debut adult novel, SPELLBOUND, is a reimagining of the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty.
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Fiza Saeed McLynn
Fiza Saeed McLynn read History at Oxford University and had a brief career in finance before spending the next 12 years helping the bereaved as part of her work as a complementary therapist. She lives in London with her American husband, and two children. The Midnight Carousel is her debut novel.
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Emma Cowing
Emma Cowing is an author and journalist.
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She is a former Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards, and two-time Interviewer of the Year. She holds an Ochberg Fellowship in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School in New York, for her work covering the war in Afghanistan, and its aftermath.
Emma lives in Glasgow, Scotland with her husband Jonathan and their enormously fluffy cat, Moses.
Her first novel, The Show Woman, was published in May 2025. Her second novel, The Pleasure Palace, will be published in Summer 2026. -
Julie Mae Cohen
I love talking with readers - for 1:1s and Book Club visits, find me on Skolay: http://www.skolay.com/writers/julie-c...
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Julie Mae Cohen is the darker side of author Julie Cohen, a million-copy bestselling, award-winning author of book club fiction.
Her first thriller, BAD MEN, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, and was shortlisted for the RNA Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award.
She grew up in the USA and lives in the UK with her family and a terrier of dubious origin. Her Google search history is very weird. -
MacKenzie Common
MacKenzie Common is a Canadian author who was born in Newfoundland, spent most of her childhood in North Bay, Ontario and then at 21 moved to the UK where she lived for twelve years. She has a PhD in Law and worked as an expert on human rights issues in social media content moderation. MacKenzie loves swimming, travelling, paddleboarding, good chocolate, bad TV, Mexican food and comedy. As a child, she was frequently called morbid but she seems to have found a market for that. She currently lives in Alberta, Canada with her partner, two children, and one very spoiled pug.
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Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India and the upcoming Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the James Bond franchise. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay, won the CWA Historical Dagger. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. Vaseem is the current Chair of the UK Crime Writers Association.
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Holly Seddon
Holly Seddon is the international bestselling author of TRY NOT TO BREATHE, DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES, LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, THE HIT LIST, THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE and THE SHORT STRAW.
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After a childhood spent moving around the English countryside and obsessing over books and music, she later became a journalist and editor. She has lived in London and Amsterdam and now lives in Kent with her family. She has an MA in Creative Writing.
Alongside fellow author Gillian McAllister, Holly co-hosts the popular Honest Authors Podcast. You can find her on Twitter @hollyseddon, Instagram and Facebook @hollyseddonauthor. -
Gytha Lodge
Gytha Lodge is a multi-award-winning playwright, novelist and writer for video games and screen. She is also a single parent who blogs about the ridiculousness of bringing up a mega-nerd small boy.
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She has a profound addiction to tea, crosswords and awful puns. When not writing, she heads up a copywriting team at a global translation firm, where she generally tries to keep all the video-game writing to herself.
She studied English at Cambridge, where she became known quite quickly for her brand of twisty, dark yet entertaining drama. She later took the Creative Writing MA at UEA.
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Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards has been described by Richard Osman as ‘a true master of British crime writing.’ He has published twenty-three novels, which include the eight Lake District Mysteries, one of which was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Prize for best crime novel of the year and four books featuring Rachel Savernake, including the Dagger-nominated Gallows Court and Blackstone Fell, while Gallows Court and Sepulchre Street were shortlisted for the eDunnit award for best crime novel of the year. He is also the author of two multi-award-winning histories of crime fiction, The Life of Crime and The Golden Age of Murder. He has received three Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association and two Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and has also b
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Kate van der Borgh
By day, Kate van der Borgh is a freelance copywriter, and by night, she’s usually composing or playing music. She grew up in Lancashire and went on to study music at Cambridge, so there’s a reasonable amount of her in her narrator—including the fact that she was a pianist and reluctant bassoonist. She has, however, never had reason to suspect that her best friend has occult powers. Her short fiction has been published by The Fiction Desk, and she’s a graduate of Faber’s six-month Writing a Novel course. She is based in London.
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Catriona Stewart
Catriona Stewart lives in San Francisco and works in communications. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, The San Francisco Chronicle, Jewish Currents, Lilith Magazine and more. People Pleaser is her debut novel.
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Jon Colt
Jon Colt is a novelist based in Edinburgh, known for his debut book, What Happened Next.
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Writing has always been his passion, and he draws inspiration from the likes of Stephen King, James Herbert and Dan Brown.
When he's not writing, he can be found walking his charcoal labrador, Ringo, re-watching TV shows such as Breaking Bad, Mr Robot or What We Do in the Shadows, reading, or playing the guitar. -
John J. Delaney
Since 1999 John has written plots for forty murder mystery party games (boxed and downloadable) with considerable worldwide sales, mainly in the UK and USA. The games are all now available as downloadable games from www.playmurdermystery.com.
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John has written the book for three musicals (Directions, Dream Home and 68 The Musical ) and a pantomime. Directions had its world premiere at the Lichfield Garrick in 2015 and 68 the Musical had its world premiere in Leeds in 2023. He has also written the libretto for an opera called Tir na Nog composed by Oliver Davis and one of the arias from the piece, This Mortal Man, was included on Oliver’s album Solace, which reached number 1 on the Classical charts in the UK and number 18 on the USA Billboard -
Nydia Hetherington
Nydia's first memories are of the Isle of Man, where she lived as a small child. When her family relocated to Leeds, she grew up dreaming of fairies and of the sea (she still does). In her early twenties she moved to London to embark on an acting career, then to Paris, where she continued her theatre training before creating a theatre company and becoming a clown (red nose included). Returning to London almost a decade later, she worked in a shoe shop while studying for a creative writing degree at Birkbeck University. To keep the wolf from her door she's had many jobs, including working in shops and cafes and kitchens, sometimes in offices and most recently in an art gallery. These days she lives on the edge of London with her husband and
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Nina Bhadreshwar
Nina Bhadreshwar is a crime fiction writer and journalist who also self-publishes poetry and non-fiction.
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Georgia Leighton
Georgia Leighton lives in London with her family. Her debut adult novel, SPELLBOUND, is a reimagining of the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty.
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Alexander Raphael
Half-Mexican, half-Welsh and growing up in London, Alex Raphael was surrounded by different influences and interests. But it was always books that spoke to him most and had the greatest impact.
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He started writing when at college, where his love of reading evolved into a desire to write, in particular focusing on poetry and short stories. Studying English and American Literature at university meant he took a break from writing, as well as giving him the chance to see more of Mexico on his travels. He concentrated on his journalistic career while working on different writing projects, but his favourite genre of literature has always been short stories as they are what first inspired him to write.
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Niloufar Lamakan
Niloufar Lamakan is an Iranian-born author and artist. She moved to the UK as a child and has lived in Islington, London most of her life. She came to writing after careers in tech, design, art, and property. Her debut novel, Aged to Perfection, won the Commendation Award at the Comedy Women in Print Prize and was a finalist at the Page Turner Awards.
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She writes bold, spicy, romantic comedies that are unapologetically age-defiant. Her art also explores the connections between age, identity, and society’s perceptions of beauty. When she’s not painting or writing, you’ll find her on the dancefloor. -
Jennifer Taylor-Gray
Jennifer Taylor-Gray writes stories where fairytales are turned upside down, witches reclaim their voices, and women of all ages seize their power. Her debut novel, The Old Crones Club, is a tale of rebellion, found family, and dark secrets—perfect for anyone who ever wondered what might happen if the “wicked” witches told their side of the story.
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She grew up inspired by strong, spirited women—from Matilda to Jane Eyre—and may or may not have spent her childhood trying to move things with her mind.
When she’s not writing, Jennifer enjoys reading, swimming, and wandering into fun little adventures with her husband.
She’s on a quiet quest to sneak a dragon into every one of her books—even the ones set in modern-day London.
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