Hannah Murray will start by looking at the bestseller lists on Amazon.co.uk and The Sunday Times, the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and seeing what new entries there are.

R.L. Maizes's debut novel 'Other People's Pets' won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of 2020. Her new book 'A Complete Fiction' examines the very serious questions of who has the right to tell a story, and has cancel-culture gone too far in our social media drenched world? 

Marya Burgess's BBC career spanned almost 40 years, reporting for Woman's Hour, and finally curating The Listening Project in partnership with the British Library. Over the years Marya has attempted to tell her mother's remarkable story, but it was only after moving to rural Scotland that 'Finding Ida' began to take shape. It's a moving family saga about a Polish family caught between shifting frontlines of WWII

Maggie Ritchie is a journalist living in Scotland. Her novel 'Looking for Evelyn' was shortlisted for the Wilber Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel 2018. Her debut novel 'Paris Kiss' won the Curtis Brown Prize in 2015. 'White Raven' is inspired by the role Scottish women played in the Cold War during the 1950s - especially the story of real-life Glasgow girl and wartime codebreaker Moira Beaty.

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Hayley Graham is a psychotherapist who works with children, adolescents and adults. She herself is a late-diagnosed Autistic. She is also the founder of a thriving children's mental health charity. Her second novel 'Other Wise Hearts' is a hidden tale of strength and the magic of embracing who you truly are. It's a series of gripping and heartfelt stories that debunk common myths about autism, while exploring the rich, complex and often misunderstood realities of autistic lives - especially women and girls. 

Anna Nolan is a humorist with a penchant for irreverent satire and parody. Her novel 'Fun, Frolics and Fandangos with Satire' looks at modern bureaucracy, office culture and digital obsession. 

Elle Marr is the No.1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of various novels including Your Dark Secrets. Her latest 'The Lie She Wears' turns the tables on the classic male series killer narrative. This psychological thriller, set in the art world, is filled with shocking family secrets and twists at every turn. 

Urmilla Seshagiri is professor of English at the University of Tennessee. Her latest book that she has edited is 'The Life of Violet; Three Early Stories, by Virginia Woolf' In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five year old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess names Violet. Urmilla discovered these stories in 2022...