Margaret Kaine was born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, the famous industrial area which inspired the setting of her page-turning and heart-warming historical novels. ‘The Potteries Girls’ sagas are set across the 1950s-70s following the lives of working-class women and families in the Midlands, and each can be read as a stand-alone novel. Her debut novel won the Society of Authors’ Sagittarius Prize and RNA New Writer’s Award.
Eve Kelman is a fiction editor, lecturer, and writer. She lives in Bristol, UK, with her partner and two adorable dogs.
Alison Kervin is an award-winning writer, biographer, journalist and author of 14 books. She became the first female sports editor of a national newspaper when she took over the reins at the Mail on Sunday in 2013. She was awarded an OBE in 2017. She was COSMOPOLITAN’s ‘Woman of Achievement’ and has won ‘Feature Writer of the year’, ‘Interviewer of the Year’ and ‘Magazine Editor of the Year’. Alison runs Gold Medals Agency, and writes for The Sunday Times and The Spectator.
Erin Kaye was born in 1966 in Larne, Co Antrim to a Polish-American father and an Anglo-Irish mother. She pursued a successful career in finance before becoming a writer. Her previous bestselling novels include Mothers and Daughters (2003), Choices (2004), Second Chances (2005), Closer to Home (2006) and My Husband’s Lover (2008) – all published by Poolbeg Press. She lives in North Berwick on the east coast of Scotland with her husband Mervyn, two young sons and Murphy the dog.
David Kessler dropped out of school at the age of
15 and was self-educated from then on. After struggling for 25 years to become a published author, he courted controversy by co-writing Who Really Killed Rachel (about the Wimbledon Common murder) with Colin Stagg, the man who was falsely accused of the crime. The book is now out of print, but since then, the real murderer – who was named in the book – has been convicted of the crime.
