I am a visual artist and poet, founder of Magdalen Road Studios, with 10 public sculptures in the Oxford area and many public participation artworks as part of Oxford’s twin city links. I am interested in what makes us human and our relationship to our environment. I have published 4 books related to my work which are for sale at table S41.

Maud Gillett is an independent author with a fascination for the unexplained.

Her debut novel, Pre-owned, published in early 2025, is a suspense romance with paranormal overtones, set in West Oxfordshire and Dartmouth. The author has also translated Pre-owned into Spanish, published in late 2025, as LA PRE-AMADA.

Maud’s stories have a strong sense of location, featuring some of her personal favourite places. Now happily based in West Oxfordshire, Maud hails originally from Lancashire with its satanic mills, hills and fells.

You’re invited to be one of the first to pick up Maud’s latest novel, SIT IN IT IF YOU DARE, a supernatural, psychological thriller, due for release in mid-November 2026.

You won’t get a hard sell from this author, but she would be delighted to meet you and chat about her writing, and the types of books you love to read.

Find Maud in the Writing Community on BlueSky.

The Nasio Trust is a charity working in Kenya to support vulnerable children, families and communities through three key areas: Healthcare, Education and Sustainable Livelihoods. In 2026, the charity celebrated its 25th anniversary and opened a Library and Resource Centre in Kenya, twinned with Kennington, Oxford. The library offers children a welcoming space to read, learn and discover new possibilities, while helping families access books they might otherwise be unable to afford.

Two books linked to and supporting The Nasio Trust are Green Power: The Spirulina Cook Book, co-authored by Helen Peacocke and Sylvia Vetta, and Not So Black and White, co-authored by Sylvia Vetta and Nasio founder Nancy Hunt.

Vanya Bagaev (Vanechka) is a Russian-British writer and translator, and founder of the samizdat press nova·nevédoma (nova-nevedoma.com). His most recent novels are Tulubaikaporia (2026), about a vanishing Russian village and the people trying to escape it or return to it, and Deleted Scenes from the Bestselling Utopian Novel (2024), a dystopian satire and psychological horror about a fictional reflection of contemporary Russia. Vanya’s work has been shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Short Fiction and has appeared in the Republic of Letters, Apocrypha, SUM FLUX and Soaring Twenties, among other places.

Sarah Lustig is the author of the Westminster Mysteries series, which follow the adventures of Theo Duncan, the Prime Minister’s son, as he tries to solve mysteries that have baffled Parliament.

The first book in the series, Mystery in the Palace of Westminster, was awarded Highly Commended in the Selfies Children’s Book Award 2023 and it is a Wishing Shelf Book Awards finalist. The second book in the series, Body in the Thames, was also shortlisted for the Selfies Book Awards, 2025. The series finale, Murder at Speaker’s House, published in September 2026.

Sarah been a book editor for over 15 years and lives in Buckinghamshire, where she spends her time reading, writing and pottering on her balcony garden.

Chris publishes his fiction under the nom de plume Chris Foster Tolley, reserving Chris Walklett for his work on using music in education, particularly English Language Teaching.

Although Chris has been writing across various genres for years, Trip ’89 marks his debut novel. Born out of extra time brought on by lockdown, the idea began with a desire to explore a pivotal historical era and soak the narrative in the spirit of the times. Blending rigorous research with personal memories of the eighties – and particularly 1989, a landmark year by any standard – the narrative evolved over six years into Trip ’89: vibrant, rich in memorable characters, humour, and historical insight. What emerged has been described as possibly the world’s first ‘multimedia novel’, complemented as it is by explanatory notes, socio-culturally focused book club questions, and two curated playlists.

Alongside his fiction, Chris is widely recognized as a prominent figure in ELT, specializing in the use of music and songs in the classroom. Under his Teaching Tracks umbrella, he published the widely acclaimed, ‘timeless’ Top Ten series, dedicated to harnessing the power of songs, song lyrics, and music in language learning and education.

Through Tracks Publications, Chris unites his creative and educational work under a single vision: exploring how music, history and culture shape our lives. He will be exhibiting both his brand-new novel Trip ’89 as well as a selection of Teaching Tracks materials.