After the Epilogue: What starts when the writing is finished

Tash Aw’s debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Aw is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London, England. He presents his second novel, Map of the Invisible World, the psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked both by their own past and the past of Indonesia.

Andrea De Carlo is the author of 14 previous novels, which have been translated in 26 languages. His non-literary endeavours include photography and music, and working as an Assistant Director for Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. A contributor to Greenpeace’s “Writers for the Forest” campaign, his books are printed on recycled or Forest Stewardship Council certified paper. De Carlo presents his most recent novels in English, Windshift, Sea of Truth, and Techniques of Seduction.

Giles Foden was previously an assistant editor of the Times Literary Supplement and is currently on the staff of the Guardian. He is the author of four previous novels including the Whitbread First Novel Award-winning The Last King of Scotland and the widely acclaimed Ladysmith. Foden presents his latest novel, Turbulence, about a team of Allied scientists assigned with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance of the historical D-day landings; 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe dependent on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day.

Rachel Harry was host and producer of BookTelevision’s flagship literary current events show The Word This Week, and has gone on to produce literary and arts programming for Canwest, CHUM, Bravo!, and CTV, most recently co-writing and producing a documentary special on the music industry for Canwest's E! Television.

Sarah Waters was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. She has written four previous award-winning and critically acclaimed novels: Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith, and The Night Watch, which were both shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes. Waters was named one of Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists” in 2003. Set at Hundreds Hall in a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Waters’ brilliant new novel, The Little Stranger, is both a chilling psychological suspense, and a nuanced evocation of a dying aristocratic way of life. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize