Literature Festival at Sea.

Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of I Let You Go which, as well as her second and third novels, I See You and Let Me Lie, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

Jamie's bestseller Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech, was published in 2018. This work received the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2019, and several other prizes.

Yvonne is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her novel Remembered was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and her writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies.

Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. His series of novels featuring DI Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of the Year Award.

Greg is a ‘writer and encourager of writers’. He has worked for many years as editor, dramaturge and script consultant in theatre, film and novels.

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors. He has received numerous awards for his writing and holds honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and North America.

Alex Clark is a journalist and broadcaster, often seen in the pages of the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement, and heard on BBC R4 programmes such as Front Row and Open Book.

Pam Ayres has been a writer, broadcaster, and entertainer for over 40 years, and is one of the few authors who has had books in the Sunday Times bestseller charts in almost every decade since the 1970s.

Sharmaine is the Publisher of Dialogue Books, the UK’s only inclusive imprint. She was the recipient of the Future Book Publishing Person of the Year 2018/19 and is inspired by innovative storytelling.

Jane Smiley is the author of many novels including Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres, and Golden Age, the concluding volume of 'The Last Hundred Years' trilogy.

Kate Mosse is a number one international bestselling novelist, playwright and non-fiction writer. She is the author of six novels and short story collections including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy.

Alan’s childhood memoir, This Boy, was published by Bantam Press on 9th May 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award.

Rachel Parris is a Bafta Award-nominated comedian, musician and improviser. She recently gained global attention for her satirical segments on BBC2's The Mash Report, garnering over 55 million views to date.

Simon Armitage is the UK Poet Laureate. His numerous accolades include an Ivor Novello Award for songwriting in the BAFTA-winning film Feltham Sings and the 2018 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Antony Beevor’s books include Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson, Wolfson and Hawthornden Prizes), Ardennes 1944 (shortlist Prix Médicis), and now Arnhem, another international Number 1 Bestseller.

Daniel Finkelstein, OBE, is the Associate Editor, a Columnist and Leader Writer for The Times. He also sits in the House of Lords as Lord Finkelstein.

Artemis Cooper's books include Cairo in the War, 1939-1945; Writing at the Kitchen Table, the Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David; Patrick Leigh Fermor, an Adventure; and Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949, which she wrote with her husband Antony Beevor.

Marcus Brigstocke is a multi-award-winning comedian, actor, writer, playwright, director and satirist. His TV credits include ‘Have I Got News For You’ ‘QI’ ‘Live At The Apollo’ and ‘Question Time’.

Luigi is an editor and literary agent with a wealth of experience, having previously worked on the Enid Blyton estate, Harlequin Mills & Book, Penguin Books and Sheil Land Associates. Among his many clients he has represented Sir Terry Wogan, James May and Fern Britton.

Julia Wheeler is an experienced journalist and interviewer who worked for the BBC for more than 15 years, including as Gulf Correspondent. She continues to work as a freelance journalist.