Angharad Hampshire is a journalist and academic, who has worked as a radio producer for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service in London, honorary lecturer in journalism at the University of Hong Kong, and regular contributor to the South China Morning Post. She has a Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. Angharad lives with her family in York, where she works as a research fellow at York St John University on a project run by writing development agency for the North of England, New Writing North, and teaches on the Creative Writing MA. Her debut, The Mare was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2025. ‘An extraordinarily powerful debut’ The Times.

 

 

 

Victoria is the award-winning author of the Smart Woman’s Mystery series and has been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. Her novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s Book of the Year. Her novel Murder Most Cold won the Grand Puzzly award. Victoria was awarded the Gothic Fiction prize for her short fiction.

Her historical crime novel, Death in the Aviary, will be published in September 2025, and is the first book in her new series, The Blood Chronicles.

Victoria is also the author of Adapting Agatha, discussing various adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. She has appeared at many literary festivals such as Malice Domestic in Washington DC (the Agathas); the Jaipur Literary festival; Bodies in the Archive at the Gladstone Library; The International Agatha Christie Festival; and many more.

She is the Vice Chair of the CWA and head of the London Crime Writers’ Association. She was also a criminal defence barrister for many years on the London circuit appearing at the Old Bailey.

Joyce Milambiling’s published work includes articles, essays, and book chapters on multilingualism, language teaching, and social issues. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and an M.A.in Scandinavian from the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly before retiring from the University of Northern Iowa, she discovered some letters written in 1918 from an immigrant student to her English teacher. This was enough to make Joyce fall in love with archival research, and so she made the leap from linguistics to history.

Her book, Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House, delves into the history of a settlement house in New York City and chronicles the settlement house movement in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th century. That book is a springboard for her novel in progress that fills in gaps in the life of Ellen Gould, a volunteer teacher at Christodora House. This work tells a story that took place during an era in which industrialization, shifting class differences, and the influx of working women to urban centers were transforming society.

Joyce lives outside Greensboro, North Carolina.

 

 

 

Chloe’s short stories have been widely published, including in Best British Short Stories 2018. Her debut collection, Witches Sail in Eggshells, won the 2020 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection.