Our Authors

Oyinkan Braithwaite is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer. Her first novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer, was published in 2018 to wide acclaim. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, longlisted for The Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2020.

Claire Daverley has been writing stories ever since she was six years old. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Oxford, she began a career in publishing, writing about books by day but penning her own by night. Her debut novel, Talking at Night, was nominated in the Debut of the Year category at the Nibbies and shortlisted for the Nota Bene prize. People in Love is her second novel. She lives in Scotland with her husband and spaniel.

Leodora Darlington is a writer from London with Ghanaian heritage. She received a distinction for her Masters in Creative Writing from Brunel University, where she studied under authors like Benjamin Zepheniah and Will Self. A Bookseller Rising Star in 2021, Leodora is also an editor and has published a range of bestselling fiction. The Exes is her debut novel.

Niamh Hargan was born and raised in Derry and is now based principally in Edinburgh. Niamh's debut novel, Twelve Days in May, was published in April 2022 and her second, The Break-Up Clause, followed in June 2023. Her latest novel, Nothing Good Happens After 2AM, is published in January 2026. Alongside her writing, Niamh is a qualified lawyer on both sides of the Atlantic, and specialises in entertainment law.

Kanza Javed was born and raised in Pakistan. Her recent short story collection, What Remains After a Fire, was recently longlisted for the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 Reynolds Price Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted by the Santa Fe Writers Project. Her work has appeared in American Literary Review, Salamander, The Malahat Review, The Greensboro Review, Punch Magazine, Narrating Pakistan, and elsewhere.

After studying history at university, Sally Page moved to London to work in advertising. In her spare time she studied floristry at night school and eventually opened her own flower shop. Sally came to appreciate that flower shops offer a unique window into people’s stories. Sally’s debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has now sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into 29 languages.

Karen Swan is the Sunday Times top three bestselling author and her novels sell all over the world. She writes two books each year – one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Previous summer titles include The Spanish Promise, The Hidden Beach and The Secret Path and for winter, Christmas at Tiffany’s, The Christmas Secret and Together by Christmas. Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisting plots. Her historical series called The Wild Isle, is based upon the dramatic evacuation of the Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930.

A Londoner of Grenadian heritage, Pam Williams graduated from St Martin’s School of Art with a degree in Fashion, and spent the next two decades working in the industry. A Trace of Sun began as a memoir of her mother’s life, which she had started 30 years prior and transformed into a fictionalised story inspired by some of her family’s experiences as part of the so-called Windrush generation. Pam lives with her husband in London, together they have one son.

Rachel Wood is a Canadian writer from Toronto, now based in Edinburgh. After graduating with a master's in creative writing from The University of Edinburgh, she began her career as a copywriter, before founding the book subscription Rare Birds Book Club in 2017. She opened Rare Birds Book Shop in Edinburgh in 2021, named 'one of the coolest new bookshops' by the Sunday Times. Annie Knows Everything is her first novel.