Our Authors
Judith Allnatt
Judith writes adult fiction and poetry. Her novel, A Mile of River, featured as a BBC Radio 5 Live Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature. The Poet’s Wife was shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award. Other titles include The Moon Field and The Silk Factory.
Mary Hoffman
Mary has written more than ninety books for children and teenagers and two other adult novels. She is best known for the picture book Amazing Grace , the Stravaganza series of fantasy novels and historical novels including The Falconer’s Knot and Troubadour.
Mary's website
Linda Newbery
Linda has published widely for readers of all ages, and was a Costa Book Award winner with her young adult novel Set in Stone. Other titles include Lob, The Shell House and Nevermore. She is an active campaigner on animal and environmental issues.
Linda's website
Sheena Wilkinson
One of Ireland's most acclaimed writers for young people, the multi-award-winning Sheena Wilkinson has published ten novels.
Her first adult novel, Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau, is a feminist feelgood exploration of friendship, loneliness, and the unexpected places where we find fulfilment. Sequel coming soon!
Dennis Hamley
Dennis's first novel, Pageants of Despair, was published in 1974. He read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and has a PhD from Leicester. After teaching, lecturing and acting as County English Advisor for Hertfordshire, he retired to write full-time. He has written widely for children and young adults; one of his best-known books, The War and Freddy, was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. His recent adult novel, The Second Person from Porlock, is a fantasy riff on the chaotic life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was published in 2021. Dennis joins us with a reissue of his highly-acclaimed novel Spirit of the Place. He lives in Oxford with his wife Kay, an artist.