E. Beckett is a Hungarian-born fantasy author, artist, and independent publisher based in Hertfordshire, UK.

Her epic fantasy series, ‘The Moonlight Saga’, begins with ‘Moonlight’ and continues in ‘Moonsickle’, taking readers into a world of elves, humans, ancient magic, divided loyalties, and secrets that threaten to change everything. At its heart is a half-elf caught between two worlds, searching for belonging in a place where neither side truly accepts him.

Alongside writing, Beckett works as a developmental editor, mentors emerging writers, and creates original fantasy artwork, character portraits, and illustrations. She is also the founder of Eywind Books and the creator of Eywind Pages, a literary and arts magazine celebrating creative voices.

Visit her stand to discover ‘The Moonlight Saga’, meet the author, and explore her original artwork and fantasy-inspired creations.

Peter Tickler is an established writer of crime fiction, mostly set in and around Oxford. He has been much praised for the authenticity of his Oxford (‘a wonderful gift of creating geographically factual settings for his fictional characters’ – Oxford Times) as well as the pace of his stories (‘deliciously thrilling and wildly unpredictable’ – Oxford Today).

He studied classics at Keble College, and later settled with his wife and family in South Oxford. He worked in the IT dept of the Potato Marking Board in Between Towns Road, and from the computer room he looked down into the carpark of the Cowley police station. So it was inevitable that his irascible protagonist DI Susan Holden was based there. He loves setting his crimes in places he knows, and describes himself as ‘town, not gown’.

His latest (and 10th) crime story is Death in the Sea Pool, set in Bude where he has spent many off-season holidays. He insists that ‘sometimes I need a change of scene!’.

He is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, and gives talks at festivals, libraries, U3As, Women’s Institutes and even at one of His Majesty’s Prisons. (They let him out eventually!).

His great-grandfather founded Tickler’s Jam Company, which supplied jam to the British troops and became a household name in the First World War. This was the inspiration for his novel The Tickler’s Jam Murders.

Peter Lovesey (winner of 3 CWA daggers) emailed him: “I was bamboozled by the solution to the puzzle. Bravo.”

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.

Josie Jaffrey (she/her) writes about lost worlds, dystopian societies and morally-ambiguous monsters (vampires are her favourite). Her queer vampire detective novel May Day won the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award 2021. She is the founding editor of fantasy magazine Indie Bites and writer of the urban fantasy podcast Jack Valentine, Vampire Detective.

kOrky Paul was born in Harare Zimbabwe where he enjoyed a wild and privileged childhood in the veldt.

He studied Fine Arts at Durban Art School, and Film Animation at CalArts, California. Known for illustrating Winnie and Wilbur series, by Valerie Thomas, published in 44 languages with sales of 10 million.

kOrky regularly visits schools promoting his passion for drawing.

kOrky works in Oxford, lives in Greece.

I was born in Nottinghamshire in 1959. I studied medicine, then went into software development, where I have stayed ever since, watching one innovation after another promise to change everything. A good number did. Work took me abroad, including fourteen years in southern Italy, before I came home to England.

I have written stories since school, but for most of my life they had to wait their turn. With retirement in sight, they no longer do. What I write comes out of a working life spent building things meant to improve how we live. I tend to see the potential for good in what we create. I hope I’m right.

That hope sits at the heart of PS (Post Singularity). Celia Jones leaves Merthyr for a Cambridge AI lab, where she quietly builds a machine of her own and calls it Echo. Running from 2013 to 2036, it is my attempt at a Nineteen Eighty-Four for the age we are walking into.

Authored by Others is set in Oxford. Novelist Chloe Summers is fifty-two when her publisher starts opening doors for her: Geneva, Paris, a masquerade in Mayfair. Every choice is hers. By the time she sees how the arrangement works, the question is no longer who did it, but how much of it she chose. It is the first of a trilogy.

Both novels are out in hardback, paperback and on Kindle, alongside several short-story collections, among them Parallel Tracks and The Other Versions of Us. Find them all at ajblackwell.co.uk