Nicholas Allen's picture books for children have won awards and been translated into twenty languages. He is also the author of Hilltop Hospital, a book that has been adapted into a BAFTA-winning television series for CITV. His books have been adapted into Westend musicals, including The Queen's Knickers, The Giant's Loo Roll, and Father Christmas Needs A Wee. Nicholas has been the Chairman of the Society of Authors' Children’s Group and is currently the Patron of the Isle of Wight Children's Literary Festival. He has made many appearances on television and radio. He is also the author of The Complete Guide To Gatecrashing and one novel The First Time.

A Former BBC journalist and producer Mark Eccleston began writing his best-selling cosy crime novels during the first Covid lockdown. Writing as M.H.Eccleston, his unlikely sleuth, art conservator Astrid Swift, uncovers the dark undercurrents of comfortable middle class England, the second in the series 'Death On The Isle' was set on the Isle Of Wight during Cowes Week and was the winner of the first ever Book Awards.

Lucinda Hawksley is an author, art historian, public speaker & broadcaster specialising in literature, art, history and social history from the 19th and early 20th centuries. An award-winning travel writer with a love of the environment, she is also a volunteer speaker for the Whales & Dolphins Conservation Society. As a great great great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens, she has written several books exploring her family history and for the last decade has been a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London as well as Patron of the Norwegian Pickwick Club!

Anne McNeil: With nearly forty years’ experience working in Children’s Publishing – for the last thirty as a Publishing Director at two of the UK’s most prestigious imprints,  Hodder Children’s Books, part of  Hachette, and Bodley Head Children's Books, she is now a freelance editor and agent whose clients include some of the biggest names in Children's books, including Korky Paul, Cressida Cowell, David Almond, Kes Gray and Eoin Colfer. (photo attached)

Alan Titchmarsh: Non Fiction

Hunter Davies: Fiction

Anne McNeil: Children

Hunter Davies OBE-
Journalist and author, with columns in the Sunday Times and elsewhere for oh, many decades. So far he has published over 100 books. Perhaps his best known is the only authorised biography of the Beatles. He has a home in Ryde.

Alan Titchmarsh MBE - Gardener, novelist, poet, TV and radio  presenter, one of  the nation’s   best loved   figures. He  has  a house at Cowes and in 2008 was High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight. Author of over 70 books.

Alan Titchmarsh MBE - Gardener, novelist, poet, TV and radio  presenter, one of  the nation’s   best loved   figures. He  has  a house at Cowes and in 2008 was High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight. Author of over 70 books.

Georgina Moore-
Publicist Georgina works with some of the biggest names in literature. Georgina grew up in London and lives on a houseboat on the River Thames with her partner, two children and Bomber, the Border Terrier. The Garnett Girls is her first novel and is set on the Isle of Wight, where Georgina and her family have a holiday houseboat called Sturdy. 

Hunter Davies OBE-
Journalist and author, with columns in the Sunday Times and elsewhere for oh, many decades. So far he has published over 100 books. Perhaps his best known is the only authorised biography of the Beatles. He has a home in Ryde.