Presenter and Book Doctor

Anne Corlett

Anne Corlett spent sixteen years as a criminal defence solicitor before becoming a full-time writer. She has written for various magazines, newspapers and anthologies, and as a short story writer, and has won or been shortlisted for several awards. She is the author of two novels, The Space Between the Stars (Pan Macmillan) and The Theatre of Glass and Shadows (Bonnier), with her third book scheduled for release in early 2026. She runs online and in-person writing workshops and classes and is currently tutoring on a program offering US university students a semester of specialist study in the UK.

Victoria Dowd

Victoria is the award-winning author of the bestselling Smart Woman’s Mystery series and has been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. Her novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s Book of the Year. Her historical crime novel, Death in the Aviary, is the first book in her new series, The Blood Chronicles.Victoriawas a criminal defence barrister for many years, writes the Adapting Agatha blog,and is head of the London Crime Writers’ Association.

Philippa East

Philippa grew up in Scotland and originally studied Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Thereafter she trained as a Clinical Psychologist and worked in NHS mental health services for over ten years. Her debut novel Little White Lies was longlisted for the Guardian's "Not-The-Booker" prize and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger for best crime debut of 2020. She has since published three further psychological thrillers: Safe and Sound, I'll Never Tell and A Guilty Secret, with combined sales of over 100,000. Philippa lives in the Lincolnshire countryside with her spouse and cat, and alongside her writing she continues to work as a psychologist and therapist. You can find her on Bluesky @philippaeast.bsky.social and Facebook @philippa_east_author, or follow her via her Amazon Author page.

Sally Hart

Sally writes psychological thrillers from a medical background (as a day job she works in cardiology in the NHS) and says that it is the why rather than the what of crime which is so fascinating. She won a pitch prize to secure publication of Out of her Mind,a gripping study of memory and obsession, and is currently working on the follow-up.

Daniel Ingram-Brown

Daniel is a Middle-Grade author, theatre maker and educator. He has a doctorate in creative writing & education and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of York. His books include Bea’s Witch and Rise of the Shadow Stealer and the series The Firebird Chronicles.

Christie J. Newport

Christie is the author of thrillers, The Raven’s Mark and The Ordinary Man. She won the inaugural Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour and the first of her new series of standalone historical thrillers is due to be published this year by Storm Publishing. Christie’s books have received high praise from best-selling authors, bloggers, reviewers and readers. Bestseller, Lisa Jewell said The Raven’s Mark was ‘the most assured crime debut I have ever read.’ Her knowledge of the way novels work is masterly.

Jaye Sarasin

Despite a sad lack of mathematical talent Jaye worked for the Royal Greenwich Observatory in her youth and thereby acquired her love of science fiction. This led to her eventually publishing two YA Sci-fi books on climate change, The Green Enclave and Keepers of the Sun with a third in the trilogy to come in 2026. A ‘gorgeously atmospheric’ cosy mystery is also due out soon.Jaye’s blogs on Writing Style appear on Bloomsbury’s Writers&Artists website and she reviews science fiction, YA fiction and crimefiction forReedsy. Jaye says she’sa passionate reader, writer and gardener and a compulsive filler-in of crosswords and codewords.https://www.jayesarasin.co.uk

Emma Tallon

Emma is a crime writer with 15 books published and under contract for more. She has been on several panels at a variety of festivals and run a couple of 'wine and crime' events online with other authors. When working with schools Emma talks about the writing process and recently held a table at a literary event for new writers in Milton Keynes, where she gave advice on a number of creative writing questions which ranged from the structure of the novel to the different paths to publication.

Christie Newport

Christie J. Newport is the author of thrillers, The Raven’s Mark and The Ordinary Man. She won the inaugural Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour and the first of her new series of standalone historical thrillers is due to be published this year by Storm Publishing. Christie’s books have received high praise from best-selling authors, bloggers, reviewers and readers. Bestseller, Lisa Jewell said The Raven’s Mark was ‘the most assured crime debut I have ever read.’

Roger Webster

Roger is a former history teacher with a passion for the Viking era. His first book, Sigurd and the Wyrm, a Viking fantasy aimed at 10-14 year-olds, is due to be published this summer, with his factual Astrid’s Viking Yule for 8-10 year-olds to follow. The first book in his Viking Raiders, Viking Traders series for YA/adults is coming later. He takes an active part in a number of on-line critiquing groups and specialises in whole book assessments. He describes his interests as ‘cricket, family, reading and writing, but not always in that order’, and he has been known to sample an occasional beer.

Laura Williams

Laura Williams is an agent at Greene & Heaton, joining in 2018 from Peters Fraser & Dunlop. She represents a list of authors across adult fiction, young adult and non-fiction, with a particular interest in literary fiction, thrillers and suspense, horror, love stories, and non-fiction books about mental health. She is actively looking for new authors across genresand enjoys editing and helping writers craft their projects into commercial successes from the early idea stage.