T A Belshaw is from Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the well-received, Amy Rowlings Golden Age mystery series, which includes Murder at the Mill and Death at the Lychgate and The Murder Awards. Murder on the Medway, the fourth mystery, was released on April 30th 2024.

Trevor is also the author of the Dual Timeline Family Saga, Unspoken. The four-book series includes, Unspoken, The Legacy The Reckoning and the 2023 fourth book in the series, Betrayal. His Christmas Novel, Hopes and Fears, set in 1940 features the same characters found in both the Unspoken and Amy Rowlings series.

His short stories have been published in various anthologies including 100 Stories for Haiti, 50 Stories for Pakistan, Another Haircut, Shambelurkling and Other Stories, Deck The Halls, 100 Stories for Queensland and The Cafe Lit anthology 2011, 2012 and 2013. He also has two pieces in Shambelurklers Return. 2014

His poem, My Mistake, was rated Highly Commended and published in an anthology of the best entries in the Farringdon Poetry Competition. Various articles have been published in magazines as diverse as Ireland’s Own, The Best of British and First Edition.

In 2021 Trevor signed a multi-book deal with Spellbound Books Ltd.

 

Prof. Nadine Akkerman is an archival detective, biographer, cryptographer, editor and spymistress. An acclaimed literary historian, she is the award-winning author of Invisible Agents. Her latest book is Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, which she co-wrote with Dr Pete Langman.

Nadine is also the author of Queen of Hearts, the authoritative biography of the sometime Queen of Bohemia Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James VI/I, and editor of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart (3 vols) – it has been said that the only person who has read more of Elizabeth’s letters than Nadine is Elizabeth herself. If historians take one thing from these works, it is that Elizabeth Stuart should never be called ‘The Winter Queen’ again.

A popular public speaker in the UK, Nadine has been a guest on Woman’s Hour, Histories of the Unexpected podcast and on the SkyArts series Treasures of the British Library (with Julia Donaldson) to name but a few.

Nadine is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she lives in a seventeenth-century canal house with her partner, novelist Pete Langman (when they’re not in the UK), and hopes to have a cat soon.

Clare Grant was an award-winning journalist when she began researching and writing her first novel. She is now a full-time author. Her debut historical crime thriller Winter of Shadows is set in York in the 1860s. It is the first in a series about Ada Fawkes, the country’s one and only crime scene photographer. The book is now under option for screen development.

She was inspired to create her heroine Ada Fawkes while working on a project exploring the historical role of women in policing.

“It struck me how extraordinary it was that until 1919 women could not legally become police officers and yet as I read I realised that women have actually been doing detective work for centuries. They were recruited by husbands, sweethearts and employers as sleuths but without proper recognition of their work – or a pay packet. Women would investigate, go undercover, shadow suspects in ways and places men were denied access. I knew then I wanted to write a series about such a woman.”

She has a masters in heritage interpretation from Newcastle University and lives in the North of England. www.claregrant.org.uk

 

 

Traumatised parliamentarian spy James Archer’s treacherous journey through the greed and corruption of the 1650s exposes the violent formation of a modern world of State power, commerce and class.

From witch trials, through female agents, to assassination plots, Archer’s personal search for redemption tells the story of the failed promise of the eleven year English Republic.

Corin Burnside grew up in a house full of books and has been scribbling stories for as long as she can remember. A passion for history, travel, and the natural environment colours her writing and provides inspiration for her story-telling.

She has recently returned to the UK to live in the beautiful Eden Valley, after spending ten years in the heart of the French Pyrenees with her husband and The Princess, a demanding Hungarian Vizsla who helps with plot holes in exchange for cheese.

LUCY ASHE is the author of CLARA & OLIVIA (Magpie, Oneworld publications, UK)/ THE DANCE OF THE DOLLS (Union Square & Co, US). CLARA & OLIVIA was longlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.

Her second novel, THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES, is out now in the UK and is coming to the US in September 2024.

Lucy trained at The Royal Ballet School for eight years, first as a Junior Associate and then at White Lodge. She has a Diploma in Dance Teaching with the British Ballet Organisation. She studied English Literature at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, while continuing to dance and perform. After graduation, she obtained a PGCE teaching qualification and became an English teacher.

Her poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary journals and she was shortlisted for the 2020 Impress Prize for New Writers. She reviews theatre, in particular ballet, writing for the website PlaysToSee.com.