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Val McDermid (born 4 June 1955 in Kirkcaldy, Fife) is a Scottish crime writer whose five series include the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novels, adapted for television as “Wire in the Blood”, and the Karen Pirie cold case novels, adapted by ITV. According to her official biography she has sold more than 19 million … Read more
Sir Terry Pratchett (1948 to 2015) was an English author and satirist, best known for the 41 comic fantasy novels of the “Discworld” series, published between 1983 and 2015, and for “Good Omens” (1990), which he wrote with Neil Gaiman. His books have sold more than 100 million copies in 43 languages. Born in Beaconsfield, … Read more
Terry Deary is a British author best known for “Horrible Histories”, the children’s history series he began in 1993 with the illustrator Martin Brown. Born in Sunderland in 1946, he says on his own website that he has written 362 books, which have sold more than 38 million copies in 45 languages. Deary’s father was … Read more
Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, on 24 December 1973, best known for the Twilight vampire romance series. The books have sold over 160 million copies and were adapted into five films. She has also written two novels for adults, “The Host” and “The Chemist”. The second of six children, Meyer … Read more
Shari Lapena is a Canadian author of domestic suspense novels, best known for her 2016 thriller “The Couple Next Door”, which sold four million copies worldwide. A former lawyer and English teacher, she has published ten thrillers and two earlier comic novels. Lapena was born in 1960 and worked as a lawyer and then as … Read more
Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist, born in Castlebar, County Mayo, on 20 February 1991. She is the author of four novels: “Conversations with Friends” (2017), “Normal People” (2018), “Beautiful World, Where Are You” (2021) and “Intermezzo” (2024). The first two were adapted for television by BBC Three and Hulu. Rooney studied English at Trinity … Read more
Robin Hobb is the pen name of the American fantasy writer Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, born in Berkeley, California, in 1952. She is best known for the 16 novels of the “Realm of the Elderlings”, which began with “Assassin’s Apprentice” in 1995, and she also writes as Megan Lindholm. She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, … Read more
Robert Galbraith is the pen name under which J.K. Rowling writes the Cormoran Strike novels, a series of London detective stories that began with “The Cuckoo’s Calling” in 2013. Eight books have been published so far in a planned series of ten, and they have been adapted for BBC One as “Strike”, with Tom Burke … Read more
Riley Sager is the pen name of Todd Ritter, an American thriller writer from Pennsylvania whose novels include “Final Girls”, “Lock Every Door”, “Home Before Dark” and “The Only One Left”. He has published ten novels under the name since 2017, all of them standalone stories. Before writing fiction full time, Ritter worked as a … Read more
Philip Pullman is an English novelist best known for “His Dark Materials”, the fantasy trilogy that began with “Northern Lights” in 1995, and for its companion trilogy “The Book of Dust”, completed with “The Rose Field” in October 2025. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. Pullman was born … Read more
