The Jo Fletcher Books Anthology

Originally qualified as a doctor, Frank Ryan is now one of the pioneers of the role of viruses in evolution. He was recently made Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffiled, with the express purpose of developing his evolutionary concepts and helping to translate evolutionary science into medicine. He is the author of four general books, including a New York Times NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR (Tuberculosis).

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth Hunters, Snowblind, Ararat, and Strangewood. With Mike Mignola, he cocreated the comic book series Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He lives in Bradford, Massachusetts. 

Jamaican-born Stephanie Saulter writes speculative fiction. She left Jamaica to study at MIT in the USA and spent fifteen years in America before moving to the UK in 2003. She's worked as a corporate executive, a public policy wonk and a management consultant, amongst other things, and in 2010 she launched the Scriptopus interactive website for writing short fiction. Her highly acclaimed ®Evolution trilogy, GEMSIGNS, BINARY and REGENERATION, are set in a near future that's been fundamentally altered by neurological pandemic, genetic manipulation and social media. Stephanie blogs unpredictably at stephaniesaulter.com and tweets slightly more reliably as @scriptopus. She lives in London.

Aidan Harte studied sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art; it was while he was in Italy that he was inspired to write The Wave Trilogy: Irenicon, shortlisted for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award, and its sequels The Warring States and Spira Mirabilis. His interest in folklore and mythology also informs his sculpture; he recently won a commission from County Clare in Ireland for his 'Púca of Ennistymon', based on the character from Gaelic folklore, which has won him a lot of fans, including actor Chris O'Dowd and comedian Dara O'Briain.
Aidan can be found on Instagram at aidanhartesculptor and Twitter @HarteAidan; his website is www.aidanharte.com

Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) was an award-winning fiction writer and author of numerous books on the Tarot. She was considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. She was a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia, and taught at the famed Omega Institute for fifteen years.

John Matthews is a world-renowned authority on the Celtic wisdom tradition and the Arthurian legends. He is the author of numerous books, including The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom. 

Caitlín and John Matthews are the co-authors of the Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom and Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Legend. Caitlín is acknowledged as a world authority on Celtic wisdom and the ancestral traditions of Britain, while John has produced nearly 100 books on Arthurian legend. They live in Oxford.