Author Of The Month

Previous Authors Of The Month

August 2023 - Halley Sutton

Halley Sutton is the author ofย The Lady Upstairsย andย 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 Johnstonโ€™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 theย New York Timesย bestselling Maisie Dobbs series. Her stand-alone books includeย The Care and Management of Lies,ย The White Ladyย and her memoir,ย 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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October 2022 - Naomi Miller

Naomi Miller is professor of English at Smith College, Massachusetts. She is the author or editor of nine books in early modern studies and Imperfect Alchemist is her first novel.  Follow her: @N…

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September 2022 - Ruth Wilson

RUTH WILSON read her first Jane Austen novel in 1947 and in 2021 completedher PhD on reading and teaching Jane Austen. Previously, she taught Englishand worked on oral history projects including one w…

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August 2022 - Martin Edwards

MARTIN EDWARDS was born in Knutsford, Cheshire. He read law at Balliol College, Oxford and then trained as a solicitor. Married with two children, he is currently a partner at Weightmans LLP, a l…

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July 2022 - Suzette A. Hill

SUZETTE A. HILL was born in East Sussex, and spent much of her childhood playing spies and smugglers on Beachy Head and picnicking at the foot of the Long Man of Wilmington. She worked as a tea…

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June 2022 - 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 cafรฉ in Mayfair for over 35 years. She is very well known locally in London …

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Sarah Hawkswood

May 2022 - 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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Aline Templeton

April 2022 - Aline Templeton

ALINE TEMPLETON grew up in the fishing village of Anstruther, in the East Neuk of Fife. She has worked in education and broadcasting and was a Justice of the Peace for ten years. Married with two grow…

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March 2022 - Helen Batten

Helen is a best-sellingย non-fiction writer who lives in London and works as a psychotherapist. After reading history at Cambridge, Helen studied journalism at Cardiff and worked in television, produc…

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Anna Jacobs

February 2022 - 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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January 2022 - Barbara Mutch

Barbara was born and brought up in South Africa, the granddaughter of Irish immigrants. Before embarking on a writing career, she launched and managed a number of businesses both in South Africa and t…

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November 2021 - 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 2021 - Beryl Matthews

Beryl Matthews was born in London and grew up during WWII. She now lives near Farnham. After a career in the inspection office of an aircraft factory, Beryl started writing fiction. Her first novel wa…

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