Nina Bell

Nina Bell's latest novel is The Empty Nesters. Nina has written for most national newspapers and magazines and has also written a number of radio plays broadcast on Radio 4. She is the author of three previous novels, The Inheritance, Sisters-in-Law and Lovers and Liars.

Anne Berry

Anne Berry was winner of Amazon's 'Rising Stars' competition for her début novel, The Hungry Ghosts. This book was shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers' Prize and The Desmond Elliott Prize. Her new novel, The Water Children, is about four lives and four defining moments which will bring them together.

Suzannah Dunn

Suzannah Dunn's The Confessions of Katherine Howard is one of this year's WHSmith Richard & Judy Summer Book Club reads and has been hailed as her best and most compelling book yet. Suzannah is the author of nine novels, including the bestselling The Sixth Wife.

Rebecca Frayn

Rebecca Frayn is a critically acclaimed film maker and her first novel, One Life, was published in 2006. Her second book, Deceptions, is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who mysteriously fails to come home from school one day. Three years later a phone call brings shocking news...

Jason Goodwin

Mark Mills

Mark Mills has written four novels, the latest being House of the Hanged, which was published in July. It is a riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder set on the French Riviera in the 1930s. His first novel, The Whaleboat House, won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Award for Best Novel by a début author.

S.J. Parris

S.J. Parris is the highly acclaimed author of Heresy, the first in a series of historical thrillers featuring Giordano Bruno, philosopher, scientist and heretic. The second, Prophecy, was published in March. S.J. Parris is the pseudonym of Stephanie Merritt, who has worked as a critic and feature writer for a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as radio and television.

Imogen Robertson

Imogen Robertson won The Daily Telegraph's 'first thousand words of a novel' competition in 2007, with her first novel Instruments of Darkness. She is also a TV, film and radio director. Imogen vividly brings to life the eighteenth century in her detective novels featuring curmudgeonly anatomist Gabriel Crowther and forthright gentlewoman Harriet Westerman. The third in the series is Island of Bones.

Natasha Solomons

Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola is a WHSmith Richard & Judy Summer Book Club read. Her début, Mr Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman, was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards.

Elizabeth Speller

Elizabeth Speller is the author of The Return of Captain John Emmett, her début novel and a 2011 WHSmith Richard & Judy Summer Book Club read. Elizabeth studied Classics at university and she is a prize-winning poet and journalist. Her second novel is The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton.