Nadine O'Regan Nadine O'Regan is the Books and Arts Editor with The Sunday Business Post. She's also a regular contributor to The View and The Daily Show on RTE television and she presents the arts and culture show The Kiosk, which airs on Saturday mornings on Dublin station Phantom 105.2. Originally from Skibbereen, Co. Cork, O'Regan has an M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin and was previously a judge for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

Pauline McLynn Pauline McLynn has written 8 novels for adults all published by Headline UK. The first three feature Irish Private Eye Leo Street -Something for the Weekend, Better Than a Rest and Right on Time. Then came 4 stand-alone novels: The Woman on the Bus and Summer in the City, Bright Lights and Promises and Missing You Already and The Time is Now. She has recently signed a two book deal with Puffin UK and her first children’s novel in this series will be published in 2012. She has contributed short stories to many charity collections including Moments (in aid of Tsunami victims) Magic (in aid of One Parent Families) and Girl’s Night In (for Warchild). She also wrote a chapter of Yeats is Dead, the serial novel by 15 Irish writers, including Roddy Doyle, Marian Keyes, Joe O’Connor and Frank McCour.