Three highly praised novels, inspired by real events and real people, were followed by Sylvia’s memoir which involves the emotional chemistry of food. Crime fiction is a new venture for her so she has rooted her latest book Current of Death in an area she knows intimately.

For twenty-five years, Sylvia Vetta has written the life stories of others – 120 Oxford Castaways for The Oxford Times were turned into three books. Sylvia has a passion for telling inspirational but forgotten stories. She wants you to know about the courageous Stars artists (Beijing1979) and Asoka who was responsible for the religion we know as Buddhism but was forgotten for 1000 years. 

Father and daughter have written plays, film scripts, and books together, including memoirs documenting Ray Foulk’s life as creator of the original Isle of Wight Rock Festivals: Stealing Dylan from Woodstock and The Last Great Event. They have recently published their long-awaited novel, Picasso’s Revenge, and Caroline has published her illustrated collection of humorous canine poetry.

Oxfordfolio is a high-quality self-publishing provider, taking you and your unique story from manuscript to physical book. We are experts in full-colour integrated books with over 40 years of editorial, typesetting and graphic design experience. We work primarily in illustrated non-fiction (memoirs, histories, travel, biographies) but have also launched Anglepoise Books for quality fiction. We aim is to provide a flexible service tailored to your specific requirements as we take you through the whole publishing process  We work with personally selected artists and illustrators, copy-editors, proof-readers and indexers, graphic designers, typesetters, and UK printers to produce the best bespoke book for your budget.
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Nichola McDonald is a storyteller who weaves the twists and turns of everyday social dynamics—family, friendships, workplace struggles and business rivalries—into compelling narratives that entertain while offering valuable life lessons. Writing across Adult Drama and Children’s Graphic Novels, her work captivates readers with relatable conflicts and thought-provoking themes. Her creative journey began in secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago, where she became a freelance writer and illustrator for the Trinidad Guardian newspaper’s Sunday children’s supplement. In 2015, she self-published her debut novel, The Ruby of the Runway, on Amazon. A dedicated paralegal, Nichola is passionate about crafting stories that not only engage but also inspire, leaving readers enriched with every page.

About a couple of the Authors: Simon and Margaret contribute to the 3rd edition Côte Tales, Oxford. by the Walton Street Writers. Available at the Book Fair for £8.00.

SIMON HOWARD has been a screenwriter, director, lecturer, journalist and writer of all sorts. He taught film and drama at Prague Film School and the universities of Westminster and Roehampton. He still does drama sessions with kids visiting from Ukraine. For several years he worked as a writer and script editor for Just Betzer, producer of Babette’s Feast. His latest film project is as a writer on the Indian documentary Risk Takers about people living dangerous lives in Mumbai. He has been a special adviser to the National Army Museum. His novels Cupid’s Hypodermic, Rough Cut and World’s End are on Kindle. So are his poetry collections Children of Manu, Living Inside Strangers, Poems for Translation and The Accidental Post-Modernist. He splits his time between Oxford, India and a few other places – especially Tuscany.

M.S. CLARY has practised social work in London, Oxford and Miami. Has won prizes for short stories and published two novels, A Spell in France and Three Albert Terrace. Has worked in fashion, and enjoys fiction, art and film noir.

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Dennis Hamley has been writing for an unconscionably long time. His first book was published in 1962. He has written nearly eighty books, mainly for teachers and young adults, including The War and Freddy, shortlisted for the Smarties (now Nestlé) Prize, Hare’s Choice and the sequence of medieval murder mysteries, The Long Journey of Joslin de Lay.

He now publishes independently under his own imprint, Joslin Books’ though his latest novel, The Second Person from Porlock, a fantasy/riff on the chaotic life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was published by Fairlight Books in 2021. His latest book under the Joslin Books imprint is Out of the Mouths of Babes, first published in 1997 by Scholastic Press. This is a ‘Crossover’ novel, suitable for both adults  and teenagers.

Dennis became dissatisfied with the original ending: it left his characters frozen in time in 1997 with nothing solved  But the final situation would have had big consequences and these had to be followed through. Thus he wrote a new section, ‘Finality’, in an attempt to give a proper sense of an ending. He can only hope he has got it right.

Dennis was born in 1935. He read English at Cambridge and has a PhD from Leicester.

J L Grange is an author of paranormal romance. Heir of Night is the first novel in a new trilogy. She has been writing for seventeen years and self-published her first novel in 2018. She’s a lover of all things fantasy/paranormal/horror and dark romance. Her fascination with the paranormal started at an early age from watching horror films with her dad and progressed into her writing her own short stories and then full blown novels. 

Other titles by J L Grange are Mayan Blood and The Amulet of Sekhmet, both part of the Lazarus Scholars series. 

Originally from West Yorkshire, she now lives in Manchester with her husband, two daughters and their pug named Barbarella. 

Roxy Eloise always dreamed of becoming an author, but writing a full book felt impossible—until a birthday gift, You Are a Badass, gave her the confidence to try. At twenty-eight, she finished her first manuscript and secured a traditional publishing deal through PitMad.

Her debut, The Guidal: Discovering Puracordis, is a dystopian YA fantasy set in a near-future UK where time determines worth. It follows a sixteen-year-old girl raised in a strict institute, grappling with oppression, mystery, and a secret that threatens everything. Inspired by a dream, the series blends rebellion, identity, and forbidden magic.

Originally a trilogy, The Guidal series has expanded to four books, concluding in 2025. Roxy writes for readers who love flawed yet determined heroines, corporate secrets, and worlds where strength means survival.

The Oxford Independent Authors are a mutually supportive group of writers who meet to share expertise, preserve independence and join together at collaborative events. The focus of this group is on marketing, promoting, selling and raising the profile of writers; it is not a creative writing group.

We meet once a month on Saturday afternoons at Headington Library in Bury Knowle Park, starting at 1.30 pm.

If you are an independent author or working towards becoming one and would like more information please send me a message on Facebook/Instagram – @colinwadeauthor, or on WhatsApp.

Antonio Biggio (Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, 1970) is an international bestselling author, best known for his acclaimed thriller trilogy dedicated to Iron Maiden—a gripping blend of music, espionage, and adventure that has captivated readers in over 35 countries.

His passion for writing emerged early: at just five years old, he composed his first poems, and in 1991, he published the poetry collection Amore Teatro Malinconia. Meanwhile, theatre became his second great love. He made his stage debut at the age of nine and, in 1992, earned a Diploma in Acting and Directing from Starline (Cinecittà, Rome). Over the next thirty years, he built a career as an actor, director, and theatre instructor, founding three theatre companies—including the Compagnia Stabile del Teatro R&G Govi in Genoa where he served also as Production Director —and teaching performing arts in academies and schools.

In 2021, he made his fiction debut with Eddie Must Die, a thriller that quickly climbed the Amazon Bestseller charts and was later translated into English and Spanish. The success continued with Eddie’s Grave (2022) and culminated in 2024 with The Three Eddies’ Enigma, the final installment of a trilogy that has earned praise from both critics and readers worldwide.

Beyond fiction, Antonio curated the Italian translation of Loopyworld – The Iron Maiden Years by Steve Loopy Newhouse, published by Tsunami Edizioni in 2022.

Since 2013, he has lived in the United Kingdom with his family, continuing to nurture his passions: writing, theatre, football, cooking… and, of course, Heavy Metal and Iron Maiden.

Great storytelling doesn’t just entertain, it energises. 

We are a small, independent and award-winning traditional publisher. We’re London-based and the majority of our books are about Britain. But our memoirs and travelogues take you around the world. So do many of our thrillers. 

We publish page-turners about politics. We grapple and engage, move and disturb, inform and entertain. 

Elaina is an author, illustrator, former primary school teacher, and mum of three who has never lost her inner child. Based in Newcastle, Elaina uses her extensive experience working with children and her sense of fun to create stories that capture young children’s imagination and take them on an adventure. Elaina visits libraries for book readings and craft events, schools for author days, which include lessons in character description and scene setting, and events in collaboration with Grasmere Gingerbread. Imogen the Dinosaur Whisperer, due to be released in 2024, is inspired by her middle daughter and was shortlisted for the BBC Ignite Programme in 2021.

I write since I was 12. First, diaries, then blogs, at 16, 17.

Academically – and existentially -, my interest concerns understanding people, thoughts, emotions and behaviour, and learning how we can be better people.

My first book, Ad Kalendas Graecas, is a compilation of disparate narratives, where the raw emotions of restlessness, heartbreak and the fall that they entail prevail. The texts, although separated from each other, are intertwined by passion, hope and the constant search for salvation, which always defeat cynicism, cruelty or carelessness. In a bilingual journey over a decade, the decade of early maturity, but without the experience of years, we read emotions made into literature. The letters save their author and hope to help save anyone who finds themselves in these fragments.

Published in February 2024 with Editorial Círculo Rojo, Ad Kalendas Graecas brings together in Spanish and English some of the texts written for years in the Ad Kalendas Graecas blog.

Dice Comics is a collective that offers you a brand name to self-publisher your work under. We can also offer a free ISBN (if available) should you choose to self-publish your completed work under the Dice Comics imprint. We hope to be soon open to submissions and publishing entertainment titles aimed at all ages.
Mario Coelho is an Oxford-based children’s books illustrator with work published by several publishers like Oxford University Press and Pegasus Publishers. Mario Coelho has also done various books with the well-known children’s poet and writer John Foster.

Memoona Ahmed is a British-Pakistani poet and mental health researcher based in Oxford. Her creative work focuses on her multifaceted experience with adversity and mental illness.

Memoona has been writing since childhood, but in 2019 started sharing her work in public. She won University College Oxford’s ‘Univ’s Next Novelist’ competition as an undergraduate student in 2019, and her poetry has been featured in the Word Association’s 2020 anthology ‘Words to Live By’ (Bite Poetry Press). She has headlined at Oxford Poetry Library and spoken word night ‘Speak Your Mind’, alongside performing at Cheltenham Literature Festival and more. Her debut poetry collection, once-joined pieces, was released in 2023 with Bite Poetry Press.

She is incredibly passionate about mental health awareness and hopes to become a clinical psychologist. Most recently, she facilitated a panel event for young people to share the importance of writing for wellbeing. She hopes to change lives through her emotive work.

Tony Dwyer was in born in 1971 in Bristol, in the West of England, and spent his childhood immersed in folklore, mythology, the stories of Diana Wynne Jones and Edith Nesbit and various teatime children’s drama and science fiction television series of the 1970s and 1980s, imagining and writing stories of his own. Now, many years later, he lives in Oxfordshire with his husband Stewart and cat Boris, and is still writing. His stories are modern-day fantasies written for both children and adults to enjoy, grounded in English folklore.

Selfishgenie Publishing is a boutique publishing house dedicated to providing a service for unknown, or relatively unknown, authors and allowing them to become better known. At the same time, we want readers to discover new works by new authors while enjoying their reading experience.

Our philosophy is that readers can’t know if an author is worth reading until they have read one of their books, therefore those books need to be available for them to read.

As a small publishing house, we can’t take on every author who wants to be published, but we can take a few risks. We can give a few unknown authors the break they deserve, while at the same time offering readers the chance to discover the next big name in publishing before their books become expensive to buy.

This year, our author Robert Cubitt will be exhibiting at November’s Oxford Indie Book Fair. he is a multi-genre author of both fiction and non-fiction, so we are sure he will have something to suit your reading tastes.