Author Of The Month

Previous Authors Of The Month

March 2018 - Katherine Stansfield

Katherine Stansfield is a novelist and poet whose debut novel The Visitor won the Holyer an Gof Fiction Award. She grew up in the wilds of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and lived on the west coast of Wales …

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February 2018 - David Hingley

Originally from the Midlands, David Hingley worked in the Civil Service before leaving to fulfil his long-term ambition to write. Having spent three years in New York, David returned to the UK in 2016…

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January 2018 - L C Tyler

L C Tyler was born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Oxford and City Universities. He has won awards for his writing, including the CWA Short Story Dagger and the Last Laugh Award (twice). He is a pa…

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October 2017 - Emily Winslow

Emily Winslow is an American living in Cambridge, England. She trained as an actor and has a master's degree in museum studies. In addition to writing her Keene & Frohmann crime novels, Emily has …

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September 2017 - Jamie Ford

JAMIE FORD is the great grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name “Ford,” thus confusing c…

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Sarah Hawkswood

August 2017 - Sarah Hawkswood

Sarah Hawkswood describes herself as a ‘wordsmith’ who is only really happy when writing. She read Modern History at Oxford University and the takes her pen name from her six times great g…

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Anna Jacobs

July 2017 - Anna Jacobs

Anna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels i…

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June 2017 - 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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April 2017 - Rebecca Tope

Rebecca Tope is the author of three bestselling crime series, set in the stunning Cotswolds, Lake District and West Country. She lives on a smallholding in rural Herefordshire, where she enjoys the si…

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February 2017 - Georgia Hunter

When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. We Were the Lucky Ones was born of her quest to uncover her family’…

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January 2017 - Laurie R King

LAURIE R KING has has been writing crime fiction since 1987 and won many awards for her work in fiction including the prestigious John Creasey Dagger, the Edgar, the Nero and Macavity Awards. Her…

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