Author Of The Month

Previous Authors Of The Month

November 2024 - Glennis Virgo

Glennis Virgo spent her career in education, first teaching classics then as a primary school teacher and headteacher. She now spends time improving her Italian, visiting Italy (especially Bologna) an…

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October 2024 - Deborah Fowler

Deborah Fowler has published over 600 short stories and fifteen novels over the decades. She has also written a number of non-fiction books on subjects such as guides for small business and money mana…

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September 2024 - Anna and Jacqui Burns

Anna Burns Anna Burns is a psychiatrist and one half of a writing team with her mother Jacqui Burns. They write their novels while living over two hundred miles apart, emailing chapters back and forth…

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August 2024 - Antony Johnston

Antony Johnston’s career has spanned books, award-winning video games and graphic novels including collaborations with Anthony Horowitz and Alan Moore. He wrote the New York Times bestseller Daredev…

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Liz Webb

July 2024 - Liz Webb

Liz Webb originally trained as a classical dancer, then worked as a secretary, stationery shop manager, art class model, cocktail waitress, stand-up comic, voice-over artist, script editor and radio d…

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June 2024 - Jess Armstrong

Jess Armstrong's debut novel The Curse of Penryth Hall won the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur First Crime Novel Competition. She has a master's degree in American History but prefers writing ab…

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May 2024 - Mike Hollow

Mike Hollow was born in West Ham, on the eastern edge of London, and grew up in Romford, Essex. He studied Russian and French at the University of Cambridge and then worked for the BBC and later Tearf…

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Graham Barlett

March 2024 - Graham Bartlett

Graham Bartlett rose to become chief superintendent and the divisional commander of Brighton and Hove police. His first non-fiction book Death Comes Knocking was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller,…

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January 2024 - Antony Johnston

Antony Johnston’s career has spanned books, award-winning video games and graphic novels including collaborations with Anthony Horowitz and Alan Moore. He wrote the New York Times bestseller Daredev…

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November 2023 - Stephanie Austin

Stephanie Austin has enjoyed a varied career, working as an artist and an antiques trader, but also for the Devon Schools Library Service. When not writing she is actively involved in amateur theatre …

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October 2023 - Christina Koning

Christina Koning has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times, and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. From 2013 to 2015, she was…

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August 2023 - Halley Sutton

Halley Sutton is the author of The Lady Upstairs and The Hurricane Blonde. A writer and editor, she lives in Los Angeles, where she spends her time chasing down noir and Hollywood trivia. She holds…

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July 2023 - Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly was born in 1957 and is the son of a Scotland Yard detective. He went to university in Sheffield, later training as a journalist and worked on the Bedfordshire Times, Yorkshire Evening Press…

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June 2023 - Christina Koning

Christina Koning has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times, and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. From 2013 to 2015, she was…

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May 2023 - Antony Johnston

Antony Johnston’s career has spanned books, award-winning video games and graphic novels including collaborations with Anthony Horowitz and Alan Moore. He wrote the New York Times bestseller Daredev…

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April 2023 - Edward Marston

Edward Marston has written over 100 books, including some nonfiction. He is best known for his hugely successful Railway Detective series, the latest of which is The Circus Train Conspiracy. His other…

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March 2023 - Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series. Her stand-alone books include The Care and Management of Lies, The White Lady and her memoir, This Time N…

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Natalie Jenner

February 2023 - Natalie Jenner

Natalie Jenner's debut novel The Jane Austen Society was an instant international bestseller. Born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie has been a corporate lawyer, career coach and, most recently…

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January 2023 - Stephanie Austin

Stephanie Austin has enjoyed a varied career, working as an artist and an antiques trader, but also for the Devon Schools Library Service. When not writing she is actively involved in amateur theatre …

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November 2022 - Stuart Johnstone

Stuart Johnstone is a former police officer who, since turning his hand to writing, has been selected as an emerging writer by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, and published in an anthology …

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