Authors
Alice Carrière is a graduate of Columbia University. Everything/Nothing/Someone is her first book. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and Amagansett, New York.
On behalf of Spiegel & Grau.
Justin lives with his husband Andrew and rescue greyhound Sally in the shadow of the Forth Bridge in Fife. Born in England, but being half Welsh and married to a Scot, he feels quite at home in a land of Celts.
When not writing, or assisting readers find the perfect books for their research at the National Library of Scotland (dream job for an author!), Justin continues his lifelong quest to bake the perfect scone. It’s an important endeavour, and one which he takes very seriously.
Visit Justin’s author website, where, amongst other things, you can see hilarious pictures of him being silly on his school visits, here.
Represented by Thérèse Coen.
Lucille Abendanon has always lived a life on the move. She grew up in Norfolk before emigrating to South Africa when she was twelve. She has three nationalities and over the past twenty years has called Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey and The Netherlands home. She holds an MA in International Studies, and recently returned to the UK to give her three boys a slice of the rural childhood she enjoyed. She is an alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative Writing YA and Children’s Fiction course, and has contributed to numerous anthologies about living abroad and raising multicultural kids on the move.
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C. K. Williams has lived in the United States, Canada, Australia and Paris and is a regular visitor to the UK, be it North or South. When not teaching creative writing at Bonn University, Williams loves to cook (and bake) as well as to research obscure British laws pertaining to all the possibilities of placing deadly mantraps on one’s property.
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Dandy Smith grew up in Kettering, Northamptonshire, and worked as a rights manager for a small publishing house in Bath before completing her MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University. She’s drawn to dark stories, especially those laced with wit and deception. In her writing, she likes to explore complex relationships and wilful women. Dandy loves aerial fitness, rainy days and all things chocolate orange, and now writes full-time.
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Fiona Sandiford graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Classical Studies and then became a journalist. She worked as a writer and editor on several magazines in both the UK and Australia before deciding to turn her hand to fiction. Her debut middle grade novel, The Great Dodo Comeback is now published with Usborne.
Christine Pillainayagam is a writer and retail strategist, who lives in Kent with her young family and a collection of records, CD’s and minidiscs (remember those?) that she refuses to be parted from; despite being aware what decade she lives in. A mild obsession with The Beatles and the desire to write a story that reflected her own experiences growing up as a first-generation immigrant, led her to put that love of music and words into a book, resulting in Ellie Pillai Is Brown, her debut young adult novel, which was published by Faber & Faber Children’s. The follow-up is entitled Ellie Pillai is (Almost) in Love, and the third and final novel in the series in 2024, Ellie Pillai is not Done Yet. Christine is also a singer and songwriter, and writes a blog: thelittlebrownbook.co.uk – a diary of style moments and mid-life epiphanies, firmly rooted in her experience as a brown woman.
Represented by Thérèse Coen.
Lizzie Page did an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, London and has a degree in Politics and International Studies from Warwick University. She has also worked in marketing, teaching, copy-writing, editing and freelance journalism. And a long, long time ago, she wrote four erotic novels that were published by Black Lace: the translations of which were very popular in Germany and the Netherlands, curiously enough.
Represented by Thérèse Coen.
Pam Lecky is an Irish historical crime and mystery author. Her debut novel, The Bowes Inheritance, was awarded the B.R.A.G Medallion; shortlisted for the Carousel Aware Prize 2016; and longlisted for the Historical Novel Society 2016 Indie Award. She has two popular series; The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries featuring a Victorian amateur sleuth, and the Sarah Gillespie WW2 series, published with Avon Books. Pam trained as a horticulturist and built a show garden at the Bloom Garden Festival in Dublin in 2008. When not writing, you can find her in her garden or walking the beach. She is a member of The Historical Novel Society, The Crime Writers’ Association and The Society of Authors.
Represented by Thérèse Coen.
M. A. Kuzniar is the bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood and Upon a Frosted Star. Before she became a full-time writer, she spent six years living in Spain, teaching English and travelling the world. She lives in Nottingham, where she spends her time reading, writing, playing board games, and dreaming of magic.
Represented by Thérèse Coen. Maria Kuzniar writes adult and young adult fantasy fiction as M.A. Kuzniar.