STEPHEN FRY is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He is the bestselling author of four novels as well as three volumes of autobiography.

ABIR MUKHERJEE is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. Hunted, his first stand-alone thriller, won Best Crime & Thriller of the Year at the British Book Awards, as well as the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025.

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the bestselling YA series Alex Rider. His crime novels include Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders, which have all been televised, and the Daniel Hawthorne series in which he himself appears. His Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

G. T. KARBER is a mystery writer, puzzle designer and the creator of Murdle, the USA Today and number one Sunday Times bestselling murder-mystery puzzle-book series.

JANICE HALLETT is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Appeal, The Twyford Code, The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, The Christmas Appeal, The Examiner and The Killer Question.

JOE HILL is the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Full Throttle and King Sorrow. He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series Locke & Key, co-created with artist Gabriel Rodriguez.

KATE MOSSE is a number one international bestselling novelist, playwright and non-fiction writer, best known for her multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy and for her Gothic fiction, including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter.

S. A. COSBY is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author whose books include My Darkest Prayer, Blacktop Wasteland, Razorblade Tears and All the Sinners Bleed.

SARAH PERRY is the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, Melmoth and After Me Comes the Flood. Her most recent novel, Enlightenment, was nominated for the Booker Prize, and her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man was awarded the Nero Book Award for non-fiction.

STEVE CAVANAGH is the international bestselling author of the Eddie Flynn series and stand-alone novels including Kill For Me Kill For You. His work has been translated into forty languages and has sold millions of copies. Each one of his twelve published novels have either won or been nominated for major awards.

VASEEM KHAN is the author of several award-winning crime series: the Baby Ganesh Agency series set in modern Mumbai; the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay; and the Q Mysteries featuring Q from the James Bond franchise, beginning with Quantum of Menace.