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.

Luigi Kohli is an award-winning author, born in London in 1965 to an Italian mother and Indian father. He grew up in a household full of stories, with his grandparents having lived as adults through two of the world’s most turbulent events: WWII and the partition of India. A lover of books and the movie epics of the 50’s and 60’s, he was struck by one story in particular. Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ (written by Lew Wallace).

During a successful period of running his own company, in 1991 he met his future wife, Hilda. It was a time of turmoil in Lebanon, a land that was to become a source of inspiration for his ambition as yet unfulfilled – to take on the challenge of continuing where Lew Wallace closed his story.

During the next 27 years he and Hilda had two children, a daughter and a son, and he focussed on a career in marketing. However, in 2022 he finally left the corporate world to turn his attention to his dream, his debut novel a historical fiction he had wanted to write since his teens. A story that is ALETHEIA.

Aletheia blends prophecy, betrayal, love and a thirst for power at the height of Imperial Rome into a tale of destiny. As hidden forces shape the fate of a rising empire, unlikely heroes emerge — bound by one man’s vision. No matter the vengeance or the course of personal ambition, there is no escaping the truth. A truth that will shape the history of the known world.

Strange Region is a publisher of experimental writing by artists, novelists and poets.

​They endeavour to use publishing as a collaborative tool to celebrate writing as performance, as architecture, as a mechanical component of creative practice and as a space to enjoy the perilous corners of the human experience.

​They were established in 2022 and are based in Bristol, UK.

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.

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.

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