“Jared Cade is the Amazon number one bestselling author of Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days, which is being released as a major film in 2027 starring two-time Oscar nominee Felicity Jones, French cinematic icon Vincent Cassel and Game of Thrones’ star Alfie Allen.

During an appearance on the British television quiz The $64,000 Question, Jared Cade won the top prize on his specialist subject of Agatha Christie’s novels. He is a former tour guide for a bespoke luxury travel company, escorting parties around Agatha Christie’s former home Greenway, in Devon, which is open to the public courtesy of the National Trust.

Jared Cade is also the multi award-winning creator of the crime-solving duo of actor Lyle Revel and cellist Hermione Bradbury. The couple take centre stage in a series of British cosy murder mysteries that blend classic Golden Age influences with contemporary crime storytelling. Key titles in the series include The Elusive Dietrich, Murder on London Underground and Deadly Fortune.

Jared Cade’s authoritative two-volume magnum-opus began with the publication of Secrets from the Agatha Christie Archives, which was nominated for the prestigious ALCS Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction in 2025. The highly anticipated concluding tome Agatha Christie’s Spotlight on Murder is set for release in November 2026.”

I am a children’s author, age group 8-12. I am delighted to be returning to the Oxford Indie Book Fair and look forward to meeting you.

For the past five years I have had the pleasure to write stories about an astonishing place. This place, at the very edge of the world, is the mysterious, undiscovered Island of Animaux. Full of the strangest creatures having crazy, mad, funny adventures.

I would love to introduce you to the principal characters: Aubrey the Turkey; Clifford Platypus; and Walli Hog. They’re firm friends, although Clifford and Walli always need to keep an eye on the infamous Aubrey, as he plans his next dastardly adventure.

The series contains six books, each with five separate tales:
• The Island of Animaux
• Monsieur Le Chef
• A Surprise Party
• Coffee and Ice Cream
• The Other Side
• Who’s There?

I think you will really enjoy the stories. And don’t be afraid to laugh, particularly at Aubrey’s expense. But please, please, please – remember to keep the latest location of the island top secret!

Rori Montford is an award winning designer and illustrator of tabletop roleplaying games. She is known for thoughtful and beautiful games for solo players, with optional group play, requiring no preparation or game leader. Her most recent game is Asher’s Ridge, where you create episodes of a paranormal drama television show in the style of Twin Peaks or The X-Files in a remote area of the Lake District.

Everything she makes is 100% human made, from start to finish.

Neil J Hart is a multi-award-winning author writing dystopian fantasy and sci-fi mystery adventure books for fearless readers aged 12 and up. Sail the Endless Blue with Erin and Number Twelve, uncover the power of music, magic, and memory with Sadie and Oliver, and follow Harper Hale as she becomes the first Earthling to enrol at the most dangerous magic school in the galaxy!

Every adventure starts with a single step… Shall we begin?

Griselda Heppel is an award-winning children’s author, whose stories for age 9 –13 are inspired by myth, magic, Greek legend and a shiver of the supernatural. Her first, Ante’s Inferno, sends 12 year-old Antonia on a journey through the classical Underworld, all the way to the heart of hell itself, to solve a 100 year-old murder mystery.

Ante’s Inferno won The People’s Book Prize and a Gold Wishing Shelf award.

Next, The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst, embroils a 13 year-old boy in Elizabethan magic and the dark arts when he decides that the best way to solve his problems is to make a pact with a smooth-talking demon. What could possibly go wrong? Er, plenty, as Henry soon finds out.

In The Fall of a Sparrow, 11 year-old Eleanor is sent away to a spooky school run by a mysterious great-aunt she has never met. There she’s followed around by a strange, awkward little boy who – to her horror – knows all about her and the past she desperately wants to escape. Unravelling the mystery awakens a long-buried family tragedy, drawing her into deadly danger.

The Fall of a Sparrow won a Bronze Wishing Shelf award and came runner-up in the Rubery Independent Book Awards and the Page-Turner Awards.

“Griselda Heppel is a born storyteller. Your children will love her books and, to be honest, so will you.”
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards

The Roaring Lion Newcastle is a fiercely independent publishing house amplifying subversive, sharp, and necessary voices in contemporary literature and culture. We publish work that disrupts, questions, and refuses the quiet.

Our team is small, radical, and fuelled by care and craft.