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Brendan Foley is a writer, producer and director. He grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has written feature scripts for companies in UK, USA, Canada, South Africa and Thailand.
Karoline Leach
Karoline's first play THE MYSTERIOUS MR LOVE was produced by Bill Kenwright in 1997 at the Comedy Theatre in the West End, starring Paul Nicholas and Susan Penhaligon. Since then it has seen successful productions at many different venues in Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and Poland.

Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee grew up in London, was educated at Oxford, began her academic career as a lecturer in Williamsburg, Virginia and at Liverpool, and taught at the University of York from 1977, where she was Professor of English until her recent appointment to the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literatur

Ruth Rendell
Since her first novel FROM DOON WITH DEATH, published in 1964, Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A DEMON IN MY VIEW, and the Arts Council National Book Award, genre fiction, for LAKE OF DARKNESS in 1980.

Rennie Airth
Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and worked for a number of years as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. He is best known for his John Madden novels, the idea for which came to the author when he found, among some family papers, mementoes of an uncle who was killed in the First World War.

Douglas Dunn
In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year.

Jill Dawson
Jill Dawson is the author of ten novels, including The Language of Birds, The Crime Writer

Jenny Smith
Jenny Smith was born and raised in Glasgow, and has lived in Oxfordshire for almost twenty years.