I live on the Isle of Wight with my husband and chronically clumsy Labrador. I love going on rambling walks and paddling about in my kayak. I’ve been writing for about ten years and I mentor other writers. I am an avid reader and have recently gotten a hammock that I spend a lot ofContinue reading “Anna Britton”
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Alice Bell
My name is Alice Bell, aged 33 and ¾, and I started trying to write books when I was about 11. There followed 20 odd years of failure, during which I got a job writing about video games, got married, got divorced, moved several times and eventually ended up in Cork in Ireland, which isContinue reading “Alice Bell”
Kate Foster
Born in Kent, Kate moved to the Gold Coast in Australia a decade ago. She is now a mother to three sons, and adores dogs. A self-confessed expert at Mario Kart – especially Yoshi in the Turbo Blooper – Kate dreams of owning a retirement sanctuary for old dogs in the mountains. Now an internationallyContinue reading “Kate Foster”
Zohra Nabi
I’m twenty-four and live in a multi-generational household in south-west London. I was a law student who wrote stories for my own enjoyment, and always dreamed of being a writer, but never really saw it as something I could pursue. When the pandemic hit in my last year of university. I used money I hadContinue reading “Zohra Nabi”
Tom Mead
Tom Mead’s short fiction has appeared in publications ranging from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine to The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, and his debut locked-room mystery novel Death and the Conjuror (Mysterious Press, 2022; Head of Zeus, 2023) was an international bestseller, and named one of the best mysteries of 2022 by Publishers Weekly.Continue reading “Tom Mead”
Essie Fox
Hello, I’m Essie Fox, and it’s lovely to be here on the Books By Your Bedside blog. I was born in Herefordshire and left home at eighteen to study English Literature at Sheffield University. From there, I moved to London where I worked for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, and then the publishers Allen & UnwinContinue reading “Essie Fox”
Samantha Baines
Samantha Baines is an award-winning comedian, actress, broadcaster and a bestselling author of non-fiction, and children’s fiction. She is a deaf activist and wears hearing aids, and often creates deaf protagonists, such as in Harriet Versus the Galaxy, and The Night the Moon Went Out. In 2023, she published Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness,Continue reading “Samantha Baines”
Alecia Gabrielle
Alecia Gabrielle is an American poet and member of the Mississippi Poetry Society. Having written poetry since she was 12 years old, Alecia’s debut collection Afterglow Effect was released in 2020 – a second edition was published earlier this year. In 2023, she released Man-Made Motion Sickness. She has new projects in the works, andContinue reading “Alecia Gabrielle”
Gail Aldwin
Novelist, poet and scriptwriter, Gail Aldwin has been writing for over a decade. Her first two coming-of-age novels were shortlisted in the Dorchester Literary Festival Writing Prize 2020 and 2022. Gail was awarded a creative writing PhD in 2018 and still laughs whenever she’s called Doctor Gail. She has appeared at Bridport Literary Festival, StockholmContinue reading “Gail Aldwin”
Laura Noakes
Laura Noakes grew up in Bedfordshire in a home full of books. She loved books so much that she went to three universities after school, and graduated with a PhD in Legal History in 2021. Writing stories is her first love. She has Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, a disability that she shares with her main character,Continue reading “Laura Noakes”
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