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.
Fiona Radcliffe is a British/Danish author and journalist whose debut novel was a contender for the coveted Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Fiona holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing, along with a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University and a PhD from Swansea University.
Fiona Radcliffe is a British/Danish author and journalist whose debut novel was a contender for the coveted Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Fiona holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing, along with a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University and a PhD from Swansea University.
Fiona Radcliffe is a British/Danish author and journalist whose debut novel was a contender for the coveted Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Fiona holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing, along with a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University and a PhD from Swansea University.
Fiona Radcliffe is a British/Danish author and journalist whose debut novel was a contender for the coveted Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Fiona holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing, along with a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University and a PhD from Swansea University.
Julia Jones is the pseudonym of Mary Hargreaves, an author of funny fiction set in the north of England. Her debut novel was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Debut Romantic Novel Award.
She has worked in hospitality, healthcare, project management, scientific publishing and – for one brief and regrettable summer – the over-50s club scene.
Splitting her time between Tuscany and Manchester (and the rest of the world when she can), she’s never sure where she’s going to end up next, but knows that writing, her husband and a general sense of adventure will be her constant companions.
Sam is an award winning screenwriter. She once declared she was a witch—though the two bus rides to the nearest occult shop made it more theoretical than practical. Sam graduated with a Law degree during the 2008 financial crash. Jobless, she escaped to Japan to find herself but instead found a haunted apartment and taught English in a Junior High School. On returning to the UK, she worked in corporate innovation but was made redundant when Covid struck. To make ends meet, she turned to gig writing for indie game developers and discovered a passion for screenwriting. Inspired by her experiences starting over and her complicated family relationships, she now pens female-led coming of age stories with a touch of horror and adventure.
