The Twilight Time

Karen Campbell is a bestselling and award-winning Scottish author of contemporary fiction who has written nine novels to date. Her first four published novels were police procedurals in the Anna Cameron series, set in Glasgow, partly inspired by her prior career as a police officer. Moving away from the crime genre, her fifth novel This Is Where I Am is about the unlikely friendship between Abdi, a Somali asylum-seeker, and a Glaswegian widow Deborah. Her subsequent novels include: Rise, The Sound of the Hours, Paper Cup and This Bright Life. Paper Cup was a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month and won the 2023 Blairgowrie Bookmark Prize.

Caroline Guthrie is a UK stage, screen and voice actress who began her career in the iconic Bill Forsythe feature film Gregory’s Girl. She has also been in productions like Chaplin, Local Hero and Casualty. Her voice work includes narrating over 100 audiobooks, such as the Lindsay Gordon series by Val McDermid and Karen Campbell's The Twilight Time, and a lead role in the multi-award-winning radio drama Westway for eight years.