Fiction

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers in the UK and is unique for working across so many genres. As a novelist, his Alex Rider books have sold over 16 million copies and he is the only modern writer to have been invited back to write two James Bond novels.

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages. Her recent book ‘Home Fire’ won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and long listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1982. She is the author of four previous books, most recently Songs of Blood and Sword and the highly acclaimed The Shadow of the Crescent Moon which was longlisted in 2014 for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of four books. Her most recent novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governorgeneral’s Literary Award for Fiction.

Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), an experience that inspired his first novel, A Spy by Nature. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including A Foreign Country, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year.

Dinah Jefferies

Dinah Jefferies is the author of several bestselling novels: The Separation, The Tea Planter’s Wife - a Sunday Times number one bestseller- set in Sri Lanka when it was known as Ceylon, The Silk Merchant’s Daughter, Before the Rains and The Sapphire Widow, also set in Sri Lanka but this time in Galle.