The Conversation with Nadine Matheson

Send us a text Nadine Matheson is in conversation with Femi Kayode who trained as a clinical psychologist in Nigeria, before starting a career in advertising. He has created and written several primetime TV shows. He completed an MA in Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia, where his novel Lightseekers won the Little, Brown / UEA Crime Fiction Award. Lightseekers is the beginning of a ser...

Send us a text Born in Bristol and raised in Lagos, Nikki May is Anglo-Nigerian. At twenty, she dropped out of medical school, moved to London, and began a career in advertising, going on to run a successful agency. Her best-selling and award winning debut novel Wahala was inspired by a long lunch with friends and is soon to be a major BBC TV series. Wahala Three friends. Three 'perfect'...

Send us a text Miranda Dickinson is a six-times Sunday Times Bestsellers list has sold a million copies of her novels. Miranda Dickinson writes romantic comedy but also crime thrillers under a pseudonym, MJ White. Her first novel, Fairytale of New York , is being rereleased in paperback and is available to pre-order now.  Her latest MJ White novel, Leave No Trace , is out now. Leave No Trace Ewan...

Send us a text Derek Thompson grew up in London and started writing fiction in his teens. After spending a year in the US, he returned to London and subsequently moved to the West Country. He wrote a commissioned piece for The Guardian in 2008 and entered the world of freelance writing in 2009. His short fiction has featured in both British and American anthologies, and can be found online. He has...

Send us a text Stephen Edger is the Amazon bestselling author of psychological and crime thrillers, including Snatched , and Little Girl Gone . Born in the north-east of England, he now lives in Southampton where most of his stories are set, allowing him to use his insider knowledge to deliver realistic and unsettling suspense on every page.  Stephen also writes under the name M.A. Hunter. His lat...

Send us a text Kia Abdullah is a Times bestselling author and travel writer. Her debut novel  Take It Back , was published in 2019 and was a Guardian and Telegraph thriller of the year. Her second novel, Truth Be Told , was published in 2020 and her third novel, Next of Kin   was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and won the Adult Fiction Diverse Book Award 2022. Her latest novel, Those Peo...

Send us a text Abisola Aboh   founded Full Bloom Beauty in June 2020 during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic and has since been providing natural products for afro hair textures. The haircare brand maintains that it uses only 100% natural and plant-based vegan ingredients to formulate cruelty-free products free of parabens, silicones, sulphate, and other harmful chemicals.  Known by her custome...

Send us a text Trevor Wood has lived in Newcastle for 30 years and considers himself an adopted Geordie, though he still can’t speak the language. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for 16 years joining, presciently, as a Writer. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction)...

Send us a text   Louise Hare is a London-based writer and has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Originally from Warrington, the capital is the inspiration for much of her work, including This Lovely City , which began life after a trip into the deep level shelter below Clapham Common. This Lovely City was featured on the inaugural BBC TWO TV book club show, Between the...

Send us a text Nikki Smith studied English Literature at the University of Birmingham University, before pursuing a career in finance where she worked for various companies including BDO and Morgan Stanley. Following a ‘now or never’ moment, she applied for a Curtis Brown creative writing course where she started writing her debut novel All in her Head  which was pre-empted by Orion in a two book...

Send us a text Tabrizia Jones is a librarian at the New York Public Library and is also a blogger at 'Cup of Tea with that book please'. In todays episode we talk about Manga, anime and comic books and how they're the best forms of storytelling, the pros and cons of booktok and the banning of books.  Follow Tabrizia Jones here New York Public Library   Support the show "Enjoyin...

Send us a text Victoria Dowd is the  author of the bestselling Smart Woman’s mystery series which won 'The People’s Book Prize 2021' for fiction. Victoria studied law at Cambridge University and practiced for many years as a criminal law barrister. A Book of Murder Nineteen guests with secrets to hide. One exclusive party on a private island. An invitation to die for? Ursula Smart and he...

Send us a text William Shaw writes the DS Alexandra Cupidi books, set in Dungeness. The Trawlerman is the fourth in the series. The next, The Wild Swimmers , will be published in 2024. Writing as G. W. Shaw, he also writes gripping adventure thrillers. His latest,  The Conspirators , will be published by riverrun in July 2023. The Conspirators Jacob Meaney makes so little money as a translator tha...

Send us a text Half-Angolan and half-Portuguese, Patricia Marques was born in Portugal but moved to England when she was eight. As well as the MA in Creative Writing from City she holds a BA in Creative Writing from Roehampton. She lives in London and her first novel, The Colours of Death was described as ' Breathtakingly original, and a captivating sense of place' by Val McDermid. Her s...

Send us a text Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated author of the critically acclaimed thrillers Her Name Is Knight   and They Come At Knight   of the Nena Knight series. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and, in 2020, received the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.  Yasmin’s books were an Amazon Best Book of the Month for Mystery, Thriller &...

Send us a text Pernille Hughes is a Rom Com author. Pernille had a career in children's television, which included working on the global smash hit Teletubbies, before becoming an author.  Pernilla published her first novel, Punch Drunk Love in 2018 and her third novel, TEN YEARS , was published last year. TEN YEARS Becca and Charlie have known each other since universit y. Becca and Charlies...

Send us a text Jack Jordan is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of Do No Harm. He started his writing career at the age of 17 when he was diagnosed with agoraphobia and didn't leave his home for an entire year. Jack's latest novel, Conviction , is released on 22 June 2023 and is available to order now. TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands a...

Send us a text Olivia Kiernan is an Irish writer living in the UK. She was born and raised in County Meath, near the famed heritage town of Kells and holds an MA in Creative Writing awarded by the University of Sussex.  The End of Us is Olivia's first standalone after her acclaimed Frankie Sheehan Series and will be published on 22 June 2023. The End Of US Myles and Lana Butler live on a gorg...

Send us a text Hannah Mary McKinnon is a bestselling author who was born in the UK before moving to Switzerland and then Canada in 2010.  Hannah had a successful career in recruitment but left the corporate world behind to start a writing career. Her first novel, Time after Time was a rom com however she then moved into the world of suspense novels.   Her seventh book THE REVENGE LIST was released...

Send us a text Scott Walker is one of the world’s most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators and is first book, Order Out of Chaos is available now. Scott Walker's career included 16 years as a Scotland Yard detective before embarking on a career as a negotiator where he supported organisations, government departments and private individuals in negotiating the release of hostages all over...

Send us a text T. Orr Munro is the author of the CSI Ally Dymond series. T. Orr Munro has a varied career which includes four years  as a Crime Scene Investigator, teacher and a police and crime journalist. Her first novel Breakneck Point, which is set in North Devon, was published last year and the second novel SlaughterHouse Farm is released on Thursday 25 May 2023.    Slaughterhouse Farm A fami...

Send us a text Tola Okogwu is an award-winning British-Nigerian children’s author, journalist and hair care educator.  Her first book 2. ONYEKA AND THE ACADEMY OF THE SUN was the June 2022 Waterstones Book of the Month, winner of the 2023 Children’s Africana Book Award for Older Readers and has been nominated for a British Book Award 2023 - Children's Fiction. The second book in the  series O...

Send us a text Sháá Wasmund is an award winning entrepreneur,  Sunday Times Bestselling Author, Mentor and Advisor.  Shaa Wasmund was the first female boxing promotor, and has built multiple seven figure business.  She is also recognised as one of the ‘Top 20 Most Influential Entrepreneurs’ in the UK by the Sunday Times and was awarded an MBE in 2015 for services to business and entrepreneurship....

Send us a text Heather J Fitt was born in Scotland and after moving around Europe with her parents and sister, settled in Hampshire.  Heather re-trained as an editor and proof-reader and entered the world of publishing. Her debut novel, Open Your Eyes , was published in 2022 and her second novel, The Flight , was published in 2023. The Flight A young mother is trapped with a killer thirty thousand...

Send us a text Sam Holland is the award winning author of 'The Echo Man' and the soon to be released 'The Twenty'. Having always been fascinated with the dark and macabre, Sam Holland studied psychology at university then spent the next few years working in HR, before quitting for a full-time career in writing.  The Twenty The countdown has begun. Who will die next? A shocking...