The TRE Bookshow. TRE’s Hannah Murray catches up with top authors, to discuss their latest releases 29/01/20

Jane Alexander has completed a PhD in creative writing, and teaches at the University of Edinburgh, and the Open University. Her latest novel 'A User's Guide to Make Believe' explores the near future, with an all-too-plausible slant on reality and fantasy.

Menna van Praag has lived in Cambridge all her life, except when she was studying at Oxford University! She is the author of five novels of magical realism, which have sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. Her latest 'The Sisters Grimm' is the story of four sisters born to different mothers on the same day, and gives you a different slant on some of your favourite female fairy tale heroines.

Rory Clements is a Sunday Times bestselling author, and twice winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award. His latest novel 'Hitler's Secret' coincides with the 75th anniversary to the end of World War II. It features history professor Tom Wilde, who is asked by an American Intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Nazi Germany.

Annie Beaumont grew up in various places in England and the Middle East, before settling in Norfolk, where her novel is set. She now lives on the Costa Blanca, and spends her winters in Thailand writing novels. Her latest is 'Healing Hearts and Apple Tarts (and a totally demented Dalmatian)'