Author Of The Month
Previous Authors Of The Month
November 2025 - 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…
October 2025 - 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…
September 2025 - 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…
August 2025 - Flora Johnston
Flora Johnston worked for over twenty years in museums and heritage interpretation, including at the National Museums of Scotland, which has greatly influenced the historical fiction she now writes. H…
July 2025 - Jim Eldridge
Jim Eldridge has had ninety-five books published, which have sold over three million copies. He is also a radio, TV and movie scriptwriter who has had 250 TV scripts broadcast in the UK and internatio…
June 2025 - 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 bac…
May 2025 - Kitty Baxter
Kitty Baxter was born in 1930 in Camberwell, London. After the war, Kitty went on to live a happy life in London and ran a café in Mayfair for over 35 years. She is very well known locally in London …
April 2025 - Menna van Praag
Menna van Praag was born in Cambridge and studied Modern History at Oxford University. She lives in Cambridge and sets her novels among the colleges, cafes and bookshops of the city. mennavanpraag.com…
March 2025 - Leonie Swann
Leonie Swann’s debut novel, Three Bags Full, was an instant hit, topping the bestseller charts in her native Germany for months. It has since been translated into 26 languages. She lives in Cambrid…
January 2025 - 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 …
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…
