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Joanna Trollope is the author of twenty highly acclaimed contemporary bestselling novels, including The Other Family, Daughters-in-Law and The Soldier’s Wife. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters, and ten historical novels published under the pseudonym, Caroline Harvey.

Joanna was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List and was the Chair of Judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012

Rachel Trezise was born in the Rhondda Valley. She studied at Glamorgan and Limerick Universities. Her first novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl was a winner of the Orange Futures Prize. Her collection of short fiction Fresh Apples won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her rock travelogue Dial M for Merthyr was published in 2007. Her work has been translated into several languages and her drama has been performed on stage. Her first radio play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.

Glenn Taylor is the author of the novels A Hanging at Cinder Bottom, The Marrowbone Marble Company and The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, GQ, and Electric Literature, among others. Glenn was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, and he now lives with his wife and three sons in Morgantown, where he teaches in the MFA Program at West Virginia University.

Jon Teckman was born in Northampton in 1963. He served as an advisor on film policy to both Conservative and Labour governments before becoming Chief Executive of the British Film Institute in 1999. He now lives in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire with his wife Anne and sons Joseph and Matthew. Ordinary Joe is his first novel.