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Eminent Hollywood script doctor, and former actor, Norman's first horror novels will come out from JournalStone next year.

Robert is a journalist specialising in football in Eastern Europe. His book 'Blood and Circuses' (Biteback, 2020), focuses on the fringes of the former communist world, and investigates how the game has helped heal social fractures in these regions.

O'Brien is internationally recognised for his contributions in human and comparative genetics. For 25 years he was Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. O'Brien has authored and co-authored over 750 scientific articles and edited 14 science volumes. His popular science book, Tears of the Cheetah, is published by St. Martin's Press.

Emy Onuora is a Liverpool based writer and lecturer on issues of race, ethnicity and sport. 'Pitch Black', his history of black footballers in Britain, was a lead title for Biteback Publishing.

Christopher Othen is an English writer based in Eastern Europe. His career has spanned law, journalism, and teaching. He writes about mercenaries, war crimes, political extremists, and once drank with a man who knew Bin Laden. Othen's books include ‘Franco's International Brigades’ (2013), ‘Katanga 1960-63: Mercenaries, Spies, and the African Nation that Waged War on the World’ (2015), ‘Lost Lions of Judah: Haile Selassie’s Mongrel Foreign Legion’ (2017), and ‘Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Created Mayhem, Murder, and the Trump Presidency’ (2018), 'The King of Nazi Paris' (2020), 'The Men from Miami' (2022), 'The Polish Mafia' (2024).

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby is a scholar of late antiquity and the early middle ages based at the University of Oslo. He has written about the political significance of camels, the cities of dog-headed people and apocalyptic diplomacy. The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne is his first book. His second book is published by Hodder Press.

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Pantucci is a counter-terrorism expert, formerly with CSIS, IISS, and currently in Shanghai. He is a regular media pundit on matters of terrorism. His work on the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London is published by Hurst/Columbia University Press.

Carmine M. Pariante is Professor of Biological Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, and Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. 

He investigates the role of stress and inflammation in the pathogenesis of mental disorders and in the response to psychotropic drugs, both in clinical samples and experimental settings. 

He is working on his debut trade proposal.

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Ashleigh Bell Pedersen’s fiction has been featured in New Stories from the South, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Design Observer, The Silent History, and A Strange Object. Her story “Small and Heavy World” was a finalist for both Best American Short Stories and a Pushcart Prize, and her story Crocodile won The Masters Review 2020 Flash Fiction Contest. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was the recipient of a teaching fellowship and Turow-Kinder Award. Her debut novel is The Crocodile Bride (Hub City Press, 2022).

Pascale Petit's eighth poetry collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and for Wales Book of the Year. A poem from the book, 'Indian Paradise Flycatcher', won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017) won the inaugural Laurel Prize in 2020, the 2018 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize, was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her sixth collection, Fauverie, was her fourth to be shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and a portfolio of poems from it won the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize. T. S. Eliot shortlisted What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010), was also shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Salt published her debut novel, ‘My Hummingbird Father’, in 2024. Her ninth poetry collection, Beast, was published by Bloodaxe in 2025 and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

John Plender is former deputy editor and currently columnist at the Financial Times. His book Going off the Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy is published by Wiley.

Dr. Plesch is Senior Associate Professor at SOAS. He founded the British American Security Information Council in Washington and worked with RUSI, BBC, and CNN international. His op-eds have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post and the Guardian. Dr Plesch is the author of 'America, Hitler, and the UN', and 'The Beauty Queens’ Guide to World Peace' and co-editor of 'Wartime Origins and Future of the United Nations'.

James Pope-Hennessy CVO is one of 20th Century Britain's greatest biographers, writing on Anthony Trollope, Queen Mary, and Monckton Milnes. He was also an accomplished travel writer, particularly famous is his book Aspects of Provence

Leslie Primo is an independent art historian specializing in early to late medieval and Renaissance art. He has presented several art history programs for the BBC and regularly lectures at the National Portrait Gallery, Imperial College London, The Arts Society, and other leading institutions. Primo’s commitment to interrogating the historical canon and championing inclusive narratives continues through this book, his first with Thames & Hudson.

Samir Puri began his career as a lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, and guest lectured at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. He retains a visiting post at King’s and between 2020  and 2022 was Senior Fellow at IISS-Asia in Singapore. In 2023, he became an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His first two volumes were published by Routledge and his ground-breaking work, The Great Imperial Hangover, focuses on the legacy of empires (Atlantic Book, 2020). His recent works include 'Russia's Road to War with Ukraine' (Biteback, 2022) and 'Westlessness' (Hodder & Stoughton, 2024).