New authors for 2012: Harriet Lane, Chibundu Onuzo, Faramerz Dabhoiwala

A former journalist, Faber's youngest female signing and an Oxford historian all have major debuts this year

• Killian Fox, Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, Tim Lewis
• The Observer, Saturday 31 December 2011

Chibundu Onuzo, Faramerz Dabhoiwala and Harriet Lane, photographed at the British Library Photograph: Karen Robinson

Story on each at The Guardian.