Diane Atkinson

Diane Atkinson was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a PhD on the politics of women’s sweated labour. At the Museum of London she worked as a lecturer and curator specialising in women’s history. She has an MA from the University of East Anglia in Life-writing. She is the author of Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality and Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, which was published in 2003.

Tom Bale

Tom Bale has worked as a retail assistant, claims negotiator, office manager, business analyst, freelance consultant and househusband. He now writes full-time and lives with his family in Brighton.

For more information, visit his website at www.tombale.net

Brett Battles

Brett Battles lives in Los Angeles and is the author of two acclaimed novels in the Jonathan Quinn series: The Cleaner, which was nominated for a Barry Award for Best Thriller and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel and The Deceived. The third book, The Unwanted, will be published in July 2009 and Brett is currently working on the fourth title in the series. His website is www.brettbattles.com

Robin Bayley

Tony Black

Tony Black is an award-winning journalist who lives in Edinburgh. He has written for most of the national newspapers in the UK and is the author of the Gus Dury novels.

For more information please visit www.tonyblack.net