J. C. O’Neill is an independent author of modern Gothic fantasy and historical romantic thrillers. She only began writing to amuse a relative following their cancer diagnosis, but a few chapters turned into two series of books. She has degrees in law and medicine and had the privilege of working for the National Health Service for thirty-two years. She lives, works and writes in Sheffield, but was born in Cumbria, so is a true Northerner. She has three kids, one dog, a Mr O’Neill and a fondness for McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives. She didn’t mean to write a modern Gothic fantasy trilogy; it wrote her.

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Noah has one week to save the world – but he really doesn’t want to. This mischievous tale is full of fun for book lovers, but also resonates with every reluctant reader – not least because it’s based on the true-life journey of one non-verbal literacy loather whose life was changed through storytelling…

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Pamela Roberts is an award-winning creative producer, historian, author and founder of Black Oxford Untold Stories, a cultural platform dedicated to uncovering, documenting and bringing to wider public attention the histories and contributions of Black scholars at the University of Oxford.

Pamela is also the author of Black Oxford – The Untold Stories of oxford University’s Black Scholars and The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual: James Arthur Harley.

She is an alumnus of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society.

UKRAINE is alive and kicking despite the massive attacks on her integrity. The past 4 years 9 months have stimulated enormous resilience expressed through craftsmanship of of many kinds. Especially on the part of their women, forced to dig deep.into their personal and communal resources. New networks have been created with skill and imagination, and a wave of innovative writing provoked to counter propaganda and misinformation.

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After 40 years (and counting!) of writing scientific papers, books and patents where almost every sentence needs to be justified with a reference, I suppose I longed for being able to write something which did not have any boundaries. Having recently become a part-time consultant scientist and with all four children having now left our house, there is some time for me to let my mind wander through those things that do not need to be proved; do not have to be true. But the scientist in me hasn’t allowed me to stray that far from the truth or reality and that’s pretty much how I ended up writing ‘A Painkiller to Die For’ (2025). This was my second published novel after ‘A Practical Arrangement’ which came out towards the end of 2023 under the nom de plume of Verity Trevethan.

My third novel, ‘The Disappearance of Sarah Griffiths,’ has a publication date of 28th November and also has a smattering of science running through the plot. My editor has labelled this book as ‘Gone Girl meets Breaking Bad’ and I think I can see where she is coming from. It is a dark, domestic noir based around a young married couple whose comfortable existence is crumbling around them. The life changing events lead to the wife’s disappearance and a criminal investigation looking into the death of a small-time drug dealer. The novel asks questions to just how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love and the lives we’ve built and what we become when they start to fall apart.

Quince Press is the imprint of book artist Lizzie Jardine Godwin. I make one-off books, limited editions and 3D structures. Each piece begins with my own poems and short stories and is developed by experimentation with book structures, surface textures and watercolour. My work is informed by the natural world, memory and sense of place.

Work held in public and private collections.