Maureen Chiana | Author & Founder of The Mindsight Academy

What if changing your life begins with changing the way you think?

Maureen Chiana is an author, neuroleadership facilitator and emotional intelligence specialist who brings together neuroscience, emotional intelligence and Scripture to help people renew their minds, overcome limiting beliefs and create lasting change. Her book, “Rewire Your Brain with Neuroscience and Scripture Every Day”, is a 366-day guide that explores the fascinating connection between the brain, our thoughts, emotions, behaviour and biblical principles for renewing the mind. Her newly released companion workbook takes readers from understanding to action. Through practical daily exercises and weekly reviews, readers learn to recognise unhelpful patterns, practise new responses, build healthier habits and track their progress. Designed to be used together, the books equip individuals, churches, book clubs and groups to pursue meaningful transformation through daily practice and shared accountability.

Meet Maureen at the Oxford Indie Book Fair, explore her books and discover how neuroscience and Scripture can transform the way you think, live and grow.

Luigi A Kohli is an author of historical fiction whose work explores themes of faith, justice, power and identity in the ancient world. Following a successful corporate career, he turned to writing and spent years researching the historical, political and cultural landscape of the First Century AD. His award-winning “Aletheia” series combines historical scholarship with epic storytelling inspired by one of literature’s most enduring narratives.

Born in London to Italian and Indian parents in 1965, Luigi Kohli met his Lebanese wife in 1990. They have two children.

“As the daughter of one of The Talliswood’s Ambassadors, it’s Aerva’s job to hold everything together. Eredhest’s war on her people may have ended, but there is always a cost to staying alive, and tensions are starting to grow again. Now, as part of a last-ditch peace deal, she has been shipped off to Udela Arkanium, one of Eredhest’s finest schools, right in the heart of enemy territory. All she has to do is get to the end of the school year alive, and without making too many enemies, and her people might stand a chance of surviving.

But when a mysterious assassin breaks into the temple on a mission to kill a teacher, Aerva’s life is suddenly turned on its head. With the help of a troubled poet, a healer from the wrong side of the mountains, and a killer who cannot kill, Aerva sets out to unravel a plot that could threaten the whole world…

…and maybe, just maybe, she’ll be able to save herself in the process.

‘A Constellation of Shadows’ is the debut, YA fantasy novel by Kay Rowan, and Book One of the upcoming Talliswood Series. The book has been described as Shadow and Bone x His Dark Materials, and is rich with found family vibes and queer representation. When she isn’t coming up with useless bits of world building, (did you know that the traditional food of The Andalian Archipelago is spiced honey cake?), Kay can be found writing songs as ghostgirl, composing music for the stage and screen, and navigating an existential crisis (or four).”

“Deana Luchia is an author, editor and journalist. Her non-fiction books about dogs are informative, wise and funny, whilst her novels are quirky, poignant stories about misfits.
Deana offers a wide range of editing services and teaches creative writing classes. She also writes freelance features including celebrity interviews, travel and lifestyle pieces.”

Peter Tickler is an established writer of crime fiction, mostly set in and around Oxford. He has been much praised for the authenticity of his Oxford (‘a wonderful gift of creating geographically factual settings for his fictional characters’ – Oxford Times) as well as the pace of his stories (‘deliciously thrilling and wildly unpredictable’ – Oxford Today).

He studied classics at Keble College, and later settled with his wife and family in South Oxford. He worked in the IT dept of the Potato Marking Board in Between Towns Road, and from the computer room he looked down into the carpark of the Cowley police station. So it was inevitable that his irascible protagonist DI Susan Holden was based there. He loves setting his crimes in places he knows, and describes himself as ‘town, not gown’.

His latest (and 10th) crime story is Death in the Sea Pool, set in Bude where he has spent many off-season holidays. He insists that ‘sometimes I need a change of scene!’.

He is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, and gives talks at festivals, libraries, U3As, Women’s Institutes and even at one of His Majesty’s Prisons. (They let him out eventually!).

His great-grandfather founded Tickler’s Jam Company, which supplied jam to the British troops and became a household name in the First World War. This was the inspiration for his novel The Tickler’s Jam Murders.

Peter Lovesey (winner of 3 CWA daggers) emailed him: “I was bamboozled by the solution to the puzzle. Bravo.”

Sofia Due writes contemporary romance and historical fiction. She’s a native Londoner but now divides her time between the capital’s urban energy and the windswept coast of North Cornwall. These provide the settings for her contemporary novels, ‘Finding Jack’ and ‘Ed & Lily’, heartwarming stories about second chances and fresh starts. As well as contemporary fiction, Sofia writes historical novels, stories of women in first century Roman Britain. Look out for a new release in January 2027!