Liisa is author of The Five-fold Chronicles fantasy series. The Cocoon Within, is Liisa’s debut fantasy adventure novel and the first book in the series which also won Readers Choice award in October 2025, from the Open Book Awards.

Liisa loves writing epic fantasy adventure stories and she published book 2 in the series last year and is expected to launch book 3 in the series by the end of summer 2026.

In her spare time Liisa loves to journal and writes stories fuelled by her vivid imagination and inspiration from the world around her. Born in Bedfordshire, she spent her formative childhood years there until the age of ten, when she emigrated with her family to West Africa, where she spent the next four years, before returning to the UK.

Liisa is half Finnish and half Ghanaian by heritage, she has a passion for travel, too much coffee and a love for animals, especially those roaring big cats… lions! Her Christian faith influences her fantasy writing, with themes of the spiritual battle of good vs evil and adversity and challenge that the characters strive to overcome.

Liisa is fascinated by the human psyche and has a strong belief that the human mind is capable of so much more than we know, she likes to read books about personal development, mindset, and transforming the way that we think.

Born in Manchester, Lou Gibbons now lives in the south of France. A corporate content creator by day, she writes quirky uplifting fiction by night. She has published two novels: The World Happiness Organisation (2024) and Tuesday (2025).

I hope to display 3 books this time, one a personal account of living in and visiting Japan entitled ‘An Affair with a Village — the work of social anthropological fieldwork and the long-term relationships built up’. The other two are novels: the first the tale of a 1960s escapee from the expectation that a girl, even with a degree, should quickly settle down, marry and have children.

The book, ‘Sharing Worlds’, recounts the exciting life she discovers between Mexico and Scotland, a fascinating job she finds, but still the conflict with wanting eventually to fulfil that expectation.

The second novel, to be launched at the Fair, is a sequel, and recounts the peripatetic life of a young woman whose travels and troubles are symbolised by the book’s title, ‘Born at Sea’. Set in the last three decades of the 20th century, it touches on cultural conflicts, the (recovering) plight of indigenous languages, and the early days of Climate Change, all presented through the eyes of a girl growing up. Spolier alert/ promise: both novels draw on some of my own experience as a social anthropologist, but the second is an entirely invented story.

As a primary school French teacher, I couldn’t find anything written in simple French that brought what I was teaching in class together, so I started writing stories during the holidays. The boys that I taught were a tough audience to please, but they really enjoyed the stories, so I published them. That was twenty years ago. There are now 14 books in the Berthe the Witch French series, each on a different theme and, following requests from Spanish teachers, two titles have been translated into Spanish.

Berthe is a kind, green Witch with a much-loved cat that likes ice cream. Each book contains a story, a word search, a game to play, a vocabulary list and, on the French books, there is a QR code which links to the stories being read – perfect if you’re not a confident French speaker. Junior Magazine included the series in an article on the ten best resources for learning a language. The latest book in the series is ‘Berthe A Perdu Son Chat. (Un Jeu de Cache-cache.)

Three friends. Three countries. Three very different literary journeys that all began with a shared love of music in Oxford.

Born in Colombia and adopted by Britain through love, language and music, I discovered my writing voice in English at the turn of the millennium. Before becoming a novelist I spent many years as a classical and tango singer, performer and teacher and I met Renata Lanzoni and Anila Syed through my vocal harmony projects, Singing for the Terrified and Songthreads.

When live meetings became impossible after COVID, Songthreads gave way to Wordthreads to channel our love of music into the love of words.

My own work explores the meeting point between science, spirituality and human relationships. I will be signing the third edition of The Secret Life of a God, the opening novel in The Physics of Passion trilogy, together with Wordthreads anthologies Pigeon Tales, and The Rogue Potato and The Pinging Cat.

Joining me is Italian author Renata Lanzoni, whose novel Shattered Moon draws on real-life experience to tell a gripping story of abuse, resilience and survival on a tropical island. She is also the author of the travel guides Oxford in One Afternoon and The Light-Packer’s Guide: Globetrotting on Bare Essentials.

From Pakistan, Anila Syed brings a distinctive voice that moves effortlessly between literary fiction and children’s books. Her genre-defying collection Prompted showcases her imaginative storytelling, alongside a growing body of work for younger readers.

Hello. I’m Adam and I am an author from West Molesey in Surrey.

My books include “Goodbye Mother Bear” which was featured in The Daily Express newspaper and was then shortlisted for a book award. “The Big & The Little Monster” series, “Goodnight Mr Moon,” and “Siniser Shorts” which is a collection of MG horror short stories for young (and big) horror fans who enjoy books like Goosebumps. I’ve also co-authored one non-fiction book “Fun on the Merry-go-Round with a Sixpence to Spend” set in the 60’s, and got the one film credit.

Diagnosed with dyslexia from the age of 5, I discovered my love for reading when I was 11 and knew that I wanted to be an author and inspire others with disabilities.

I hope to meet you at Oxford Indie Book Fair where I’ll be selling my books including my brand new book “The Young Mermaid”.