Tom Lloyd was born in 1979 in Berkshire. After a degree in International Relations he went straight into publishing where he still works. He never received the memo about suitable jobs for writers and consequently has never been a kitchen-hand, hospital porter, pigeon hunter, or secret agent. He lives in Oxford, isn’t one of those authors who gives a damn about the history of the font used in his books and only believes in forms of exercise that allow him to hit something.

Visit him online at http://www.tomlloyd.co.uk.

Discover how tennis has influenced our world in all sorts of weird and unexpected ways; From the fall of Kings to the birth of Democracy to inventing Banking; From inventing the Stock Market to Causing The 2008 World Financial Crisis; Find out how Tennis created The Secret Service, MI5 and James Bond; How it invented the Smart Phone; Even how it helped win the Second World War.

Also in the book – the never revealed before, 500 year old secret, as to why tennis is scored at 15 points at a time.

But this is no history lesson. This is raw entertainment.

Christian Howgill has written for many TV shows like: BBC’s Jasper Carrott for the Carrott Confidential show, which was twice nominated for a Palm d’Or in Cannes; He also wrote for Rory Bremner’s And Now Something Else; and Clive Anderson Talks Back on Channel 4.
For radio he has written for various shows like Weekending, The News Huddlines, and Two Cheers for BBC Radio 4.

He was a regular satirists on the Sideswipes column on Punch Magazine, and was a named columnist on Excel Magazine, Edge Magazine, FORE! Magazine, and Today’s Golfer. He has worked in the tennis world for almost 25 years including as the Editor of The Queen’s Club Magazine where he sourced many of the stories you will hear tonight.

“Jackie Holderness is the current Chair of the Oxford Children’s Book group, which has, for over 30 years, been bringing children, parents, books, illustrators and authors together. Jackie has authored a wide range of educational books and materials and has written an award-winning picture book, about the Anglo-Saxon Saint Frideswide: “The Princess who hid in a tree” (illustrated by Alan Marks and published by the Bodleian Library).

Books written and/or illustrated by fellow members of the OCBG may be available. Come and meet us and find out what the OCBG can offer your family or your local school….Learn more about the national Federation of Children’s Book Groups, of which we are just one branch.”

Lucius Valiant is the author of The Thornhill Vampire Chronicles, a series combining Gothic horror, urban fantasy, and a dash of dark romance.

His latest release, Fanged Panic: A Thornhill Vampire Novella (September 2026), takes readers back to Highgate Cemetery in 1969, where something is stirring among the graves…

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.

My name is Matt Frame, founder of the Rural Rampage genre of fiction and Youtube channel, where my first book under this all new genre, The Fete of Douglas Blouse, is available in video chapter form. I am pleased to say that I will have physical paperback copies of this book for sale at the Oxford Indie Book Fair and am very much looking forward to welcoming you all to join the rampage!