Matt Wakefield is a British television writer and novelist. Between 2012 and 2024, he was one of the core writers on the BBC drama Doctors, contributing 70 episodes. Coming Attractions, published in April 2026, is his debut novel, inspired in part by his childhood experiences of making short films on Super 8.

Set in the mid-1980s, the novel follows thirteen-year-old Will Sheridan, who builds a cinema in his bedroom using a Super 8 projector and abridged Hollywood reels. When his father gives him a camera, Will sets out to make a three-minute vampire movie, only to discover that life is far harder to direct than a film.

Witty, bittersweet and sharply observed, Coming Attractions is a coming-of-age story about first love, friendship, family and the consolations of cinema – and about the painful gap between the reassuring worlds we create for ourselves and the complexities of real life.

The novel has received an enthusiastic response from early readers, earning five-star Amazon reviews that praise its humour, emotional depth and evocative portrayal of growing up in the 1980s.

Mario Coelho is a multiple award wining children’s book illustrator based in Oxford with several mainstream picture book publications including with the prestigious Oxford University Press and several independent publications with the very well known and acclaimed children’s poet John foster.

Very recently I have worked alongside the great illustrator Korky Paul in a publishing project with Epic Tales where we both illustrated several titles and most recently shortlisted for the ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined.

Invergarven Press is the imprint of Ayrshire-based literary translator, performance poet, publisher and bard Jim MacCool. Jim will be promoting his fresh rendition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Parliament of Fowls’. Jim has an extensive selection of illustrated verse. His latest collection, ‘Soundings’, will be available, and can be signed by Jim himself.

My interest in the Mind-Body problem was inspired by reading Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained”. He proposes that qualitative experiences, such as a feeling of pain, do not exist. Although it /seems/ that we have this phenomenology, we do not actually do so. He also denies that we have conscious agency. I find these claims absurd, but his book made me realise that any explanation of mind in terms of physics must be extremely difficult.

I wrote a draft manuscript on /panpsychism/, which is the position that mind exists – in extremely primitive form – everywhere in the universe. I completed an MA degree at the University of Reading, writing my thesis on the Mind-Body problem, and used it to improve my manuscript, which was published as ‘Panpsychism’, 2011.

In my 2022 book, ‘Mind, Quantum, and Free Will’, my ideas are closely bound to contemporary physics. This gives my ideas credibility. Part II discusses science. Particular attention is paid to quantum theory, where I go back to the original papers of Einstein, Schrödinger, Bohr, and others, where they debate entanglement. I argue that Einstein made many significant contributions to this theory.

Over the years I’ve given talks and other presentations at international conferences. Please visit my table, N34, if you would like to discuss science, philosophy, or the Mind-Body problem, from any point of view. Your ideas and insights are most welcome.

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