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Samaraweera is a London-based novelist. Vicky Had One Eye Open was published in 2008 by Burning House and was shortlisted for World Book Day’s ‘Spread the Word’ prize.

Nils Schou is a well loved Danish playwright, novelist and screenwriter, whose young adult series Fucking Forelsket is wildly popular. His first novel, Salinger's Letters, was translated and published by Sandstone Press.

Adam Sharp is an English writer, originally from Manchester but currently living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He's also lived in London, Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, the Channel Islands, the Canary Islands, Mexico, and Nashville (he's not very good at staying still). Adam has had over 30 jobs (he's not a very loyal employee either). Some of the things he's been paid to do are as follows: catching footballs, teaching sport in kindergartens, changing nappies, washing dishes, reviewing music, serving sandwiches in casinos, juggling bottles, and walking on stilts. He is the author of The Correct Order of Biscuits and The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead.

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Lois Shearing is a freelance journalist and author. They are the author of Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life (2021) and the co-editor of It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks: An Anthology of Bisexual Voices (2024). Their writing on sex, sexuality, gender, relationship, digital culture and politics has appeared in Cosmopolitan, the Independent, Mashable, the Metro and Gay Times, among others. Their trade book 'Pink-pilled' was released in 2025.

Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a prolific Belgian-French author renowned for his Inspector Maigret series and numerous other novels.

Singer is a world-renowned molecular biologist and pioneering researcher of genetic code. In 1992 she was awarded the National Medal of Science, and was the first woman to win the Vannevar Bush Award in 1999. Singer is President Emerita of the Carnegie Institute in DC. In public Singer is a vocal science advocate, and widely respected voice in the philosophy of science discourse. Her book Blossoms, on flowers will soon be published with OUP.

Smith is the author of Treblinka Survivor | The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling, which was published by The History Press in 2010.

Somtow is renowned Thai-American musician and fantasy writer. He has written popular novels across Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy genres. Based in Thailand, he currently heads up a cultural centre in Bangkok.

Steinberg is a counter-terrorism expert, formerly working for the German government. His latest volume on Islamic terrorism in Germany is published by Columbia University Press and is titled German Jihad.

Dr Subacchi is research director on International Economics at Chatham House and also writes for the Bloomberg blog. Her book, The People's Money, is out on Columbia University Press.

Professor Summers works for the faculty of Physics and Astronomy at George Mason University. He is an award winning planetary scientist and worked on various space programmes with NASA. Along with James Trefil, Summers co-authored 'Exoplanets', published by Smithsonian Books in Spring 2017. Exoplanets divulges the freshest finds from our final frontier.

Former teacher based in Ayrshire, Talboys is the author of the Shadow of Storm series published by Harper Collins. He is also the author of 8 works of non-fiction, on museum education, drama and spirituality.

James Trefil is an American physicist and author of nearly fifty books. He is Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia and Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University. His latest volume, Imagined Life (Smithsonian, 2019), co-authored with Michael Summers, is a speculative journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals.

Jules Verne was a French novelist, poet and playwright.

Viola is an acclaimed poet of global provenance, having lived on both sides of the Atlantic and the Equator. Her first novel Jukebox is published by Fahrenheit Press and looks to put London's Clarkenwell on the map of crime fiction. The legendary Benjamin Zephaniah described her as having 'a beautiful, twisted imagination'.