Lifelong addiction to reading, books and kindle. Mainly thrillers and crime fiction, watching true crime documentaries. Married, mum and nan. Cat slave. Love eccentric people.
Official news page for the Agatha Christie Festival, taking place between 12 and 20 September 2026 #AgathaFestival
27-30 Nov 25. We bring Scottish writers, Scottish themes and Scottish connections to London. Https://StAndrewsBookFestival.org/
Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival, based in the LexIcon Library, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin and supported by the Arts Council, DLR Libraries & Dubray Books. 🔊 17-19 Oct 2025 www.murderone.ie
Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
The Local Festival for Local Authors
Affordable, accessible, and tremendous fun. Main festival Saturday 20th September, evening events 12th June & 18th Sept Leamington Spa Warwickshire www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com
The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
thoughtbubblefestival.com
We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
...a world of different...
hayfestival.org
‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
Join us 10-17 July 2026. Full line-up 1 April, Friends Priority Booking 7 April, General Booking 14 April. Sign up for our e-newsletter for programme alerts.
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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Stories Across Manly. A literary festival for readers, writers, and thinkers. March 19-22, 2026. Gayamagal & Garigal Land, Manly (Sydney). (Formerly on X).
www.manlywritersfestival.org.au
A book and writing festival curated by Brighton authors. Early bird tickets available now for a limited time. COMING 10 MAY 2025.
https://www.beyondthebookfestival.org/
An award-winning independent bookshop with branches in London (23-27 Cecil Court) and Brighton (22b Ship Street) The book collectors bookseller.
We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
I write stuff
He/Him
https://jamesoswald.co.uk
Avid reader of crime/thrillers & historical fiction, collect signed first editions. Book blogger and reviewer: amwbooksreviews@wordpress.com
The Stranger Beside Me; The Sinner; Truth Games; Betray Her; My Husband's Lies; Beneath the Skin Also writes as CE Rose: The Attic at Wilton Place; The Shadows of Rutherford House; The House on the Water's Edge;The House of Hidden Secrets
Author / scriptwriter / history geek / Rusty 80s Ford victim
Writes about locked-room murder, car chases, ghosts, and biscuits.
Halifax, Yorkshire
https://dannymarshall.co.uk
Author of THE HOUSE WITH NINE LOCKS (2025) and TWO STORM WOOD, A Times Book of the Year (2022), and other stuff. Pub: Harvill (Penguin Random Hs). Rep: Nicola Barr
#TheHousewithNineLocks #TwoStormWood
Web sites: philipgraybooks.com &
philipgrayauthor.com
Writer. Sometimes answers to Mason.
Crime-writing duo Highly commended Detective
Consultant BAFTA winning dramas inc #HappyValley
Voted #8 Best #Crime #Thriller Authors of all Time #WHSmith Advisors to authors, broadcasters, journalists & true crime doc. makers
#booksky
A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Sentient ape. Dreamer. Occasional author. Frequent reader. Full-time procrastinator. Here for book chat, positivity and kindness.
Community bookshop in central Scotland. Avid reader. And yes that’s my actual name!
📚ONE OF YOUR NUMBER
💉☣️💚👩⚖️🪑
Out 9 April 2026
Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Screenwriter, (A Handful of Dust, Letters to Juliet, My Little Pony: A new Generation) Film director (Jack and Sarah) Crime novelist, THE BOOKSELLER Jan 2025
'Writer & encourager of writers'
#TheComingFire #TheFrenchBookshopMurder
Agents: @ThebksAgency - @LBA_agency
Publishers: @MoonflowerBooks - @HodderBooks
Part of the Interview Room One team. www.interviewroomone.com: for crime fiction readers and authors. Marketer in Publishing, Lover of some books and movies. Occasionally posts something amusing (normally stolen).
📍Bristol
📚Press officer at Quercus books, Hachette
✨Love a great book
✨Book reader, negroni drinker. Client Relations Manager at Ingram Publisher Services. My own personal views, thoughts and observations, like them or not.✨
Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster.
Rep’d by Northbank Talent.
Trad Values, Indie Spirit. Family-run independent publisher of thrillers, crime, and suspense. Publishers: Adrian Hobart and Rebecca Collins.
Visit http://baytales.com
Bay Tales Live 2026 happening in Whitley Bay on 27/02/27 tickets available now!
Visit our website for the best tickets at the best price. £44.55 for the WHOLE DAY!
Writer, page and screen. #FromScratch #LittleFiresEverywhere #WhenTheySeeUs #Empire NY-Times bestselling author of six books.
https://linktr.ee/atticalocke
USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent
Writer & musician. 19th novel The Transcendent Tide out now. Tombstoning, The Ossians and Ghost Notes all published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
Crime writer among other strange things.
Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
Author. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DARK coming April 2026.
Writer, former trailer park operator
Author of Sorrow Spring, The Verdict and Someone You Know https://smarturl.it/SorrowSpring!share
Writer of the Robin Lyons crime series and psych suspense including Before We Met. Englishwoman in Brooklyn.
NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com
I write about bad things that will *probably* never happen to you...
Author of ten novels, bass player in the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Mystery Writer. Dreadful Drummer. Proudly responsible for the Lady Hardcastle series.
https://www.tekinsey.uk
I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Author | The Vulpine | The House of Fever | This Tale is Forbidden | Vita & the Birds | The Illustrated Child | The Unravelling | https://linktr.ee/PollyCrosby
The West End’s Murder Mystery Writer 🎭
CWA Dagger Award Shortlisted Author 🗡️
I write murder mysteries set in 1930s theatre-land 📖
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links.jamiewest.co.uk
OUT NOW: FOG & FURY. THE LAST ONE, the Good Morning America Book Club Pick for December. Coming soon: THE CRUEL DAWN. French Martini lover. Rep: Jill Marsal, @jillmarsal. Playing right now: FALLOUT 76. Find me also at www.rachelhowzell.com
Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Author of IN THE END, NOTHING; FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE; MASS HYSTERIA. Book reviewer, movie hoarder. He/Him. Reviewer at FanFiAddict.com.
Fuck AI. Fuck Trump.
Website: http://www.michaelpatrickhicks.com
Books: books2read.com/michaelpatrickhicks
Author of 1 bestseller One Little Mistake When I Find You The Night You Left Keep Her Quiet Invite Me In. New! The Babysitter 12.10.23 @CorvusBooks @oliagent
📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
Crime writer. Short-listed for CWA Dagger. Winner of People’s Book Prize & Gothic Fiction Prize
FIVE NIGHTS coming at you Feb 29th
Author. Journalist. Knackered mum. Espresso Martini fan (may be linked).
@CWIPprize finalist. Has Anyone Seen My Husband That? out now!
amzn.to/45bP5sZ
Author of The Wootton Windmill (cozy) Mysteries and the DI Rahman (police procedural) novels.
Author of the Magnus crime novels set in Iceland and thrillers mostly set in the 1930s.
https://linktr.ee/michaelridpath
I’m an author #TheDueDate is out now. I’m currently writing horror. I also teach Creative Writing and I am a Royal Literary fellow. 🤓✍️
#Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD author of thrillers, published by @BoldwoodBooks, @Bookouture, @HarperCollinsUK. Rep'd by @EmilyGlenister
Answers to "Stef" (he / him / his)
Million copy No.1 bestselling author ❤️ | 16 books in 23 countries 📚 | Partial to a French Martini 🍸
www.alexbrownauthor.com
Author, mum, feminist, reader of proofs. Agent: Jo Williamson Publisher: Boldwood Books
NO COUNTRY FOR GIRLS
'A breathless outback chase'
Winner Wilbur Smith #AdventureWritingPrize ‘23
Shortlisted #CWADaggers #NedKellyAwards ‘23
#TheakstonsCrime New Blood ‘22
🏳️🌈 she/her | Rep: Euan Thorneycroft, A.M. Heath
Escaping the madness of motherhood through writing crime novels. Author of the DI Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Noel series. ‘Rewind’ out now & all books available on KU. Run Murder in Merton - crime writing events in SW London.
Sunday Times bestselling author - The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls (Netflix), The Drift and The Gathering. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. Disturbingly cheery. Serenity Falls out Sept 10, 2026!
Writer of all things criminal. Recovering barrister. Carlsbad/Edinburgh/Arundel. Fan of long, late night chats and reading books that scare the bejesus out of me. Licorice is the way to my heart. Here for Luc & Ava info.
Retired detective turned crime writer.
Author of 6 police procedurals, 3 cosy crime mysteries and one non-fiction. NEW THRILLER OUT NOW! Twisted Lies.
Writer of dark stuff. THE KILLER IN ROOM FIVE, out May. Doubles as Louisa Scarr.
Thriller, suspense and mystery writer. Author of ONE WRONG TURN, THE HOUSE HUNT, THE INTERVIEW, SAFE HOUSE and THE GOOD THIEF'S GUIDE TO ... mysteries.
Author of The Bone Jar (shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2021) and The Drowning Place out 18 Oct 2023.
Published by Bookouture.
My books might make you cry.
Science fiction author. Futurist, geek, gamer.
Author of psychological thrillers GIRL, 11 and LAY YOUR BODY DOWN. Minnesota ➡️ Melbourne. Twin mom; send coffee. she/her
Writer. Fighter. Lover. Memoir We Can Be Heroes out now. Founder of Polari literary salon and The Polari Prize. paulburston.substack.com
Author, Fitness Pro, Cat slave
Writing books, reading books, eating quickly, cycling slowly, standing on hands. Sometimes all at once.
Books for grown ups and children too. Confusing array of names. Sunday Times Bestseller and whatnot.
https://estore.city.ac.uk/short-courses/continuing-education/writing/fiction/crime-and-thriller-writing
Author, mother of girls. Gimme snow, mountains, beaches and travel. Keep your raw tomatoes to yourself, you crazy kid.
Author | Officially funny | Owned by 🐕🐩 - Fela & Lola | WAHALA - green-lit BBC series | THIS MOTHERLESS LAND - a Read With Jenna pick | Rep'd @AriellaFeiner
Sunday Times, Irish Times, and Kindle bestselling author. Someone in the Attic, No One Saw A Thing, All Her Fault out now with Transworld. Agent: Diana Beaumont.
Writes books. Lives in Glenbeigh, co Kerry. Mostly. williamshaw.com
Author, screenwriter and PhD candidate.
www.brianmcgilloway.com
Author | Cat Fight coming May 🇬🇧 June 🇺🇸 2025 🐆
Journalist. Editor. Author. Crocheter.
https://linktr.ee/victoriagoldman
Crime writer - currently writing dark thrillers set in Iowa. THE FIELDS (shortlisted for ITW novel of the year, in development for TV), ORIGINAL SINS (NYT book of the week, Times thriller of the month). Also writes historical fiction as Robyn Young.
