by Simon Appleby | Aug 21, 2026
Dr Gervase Phinn – author, poet, broadcaster, lecturer, educational guru, after-dinner speaker and ‘born raconteur’ (the Guardian) is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of Dales books for Penguin and his novels with Penguin and Hodder. Affectionately...
by Simon Appleby | Aug 21, 2026
Lex Faulkner is the Amazon bestselling author of the Andrew Sterling action-adventure series and the Ethan Frost archaeological thriller series. His novels have consistently ranked in the Top 10 Amazon Rankings for their individual categories, and they have been...
by Simon Appleby | Aug 21, 2026
Keith Moray was born St Andrews and studied medicine at the University of Dundee, then lived and worked in Wakefield in Yorkshire for 40 years, within arrow-shot of the ruins of a medieval castle, the base for a series of historical novels. He writes grisly,...
by Simon Appleby | Aug 21, 2026
Alex Kane is best known for writing gritty, gangland thrillers set in and around Glasgow. Alex is a full-time writer, but before her writing career began, she worked in early years, delivering the Montessori ethos to children under five. She is also a keen, abstract...
by Simon Appleby | Aug 21, 2026
Catherine Law is the author of several historical novels set in the first half of the 20th century, in and around the First and Second World Wars. Her stories are inspired by the tales our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers tell us, and the secrets they...
