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Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster was educated at the Carlisle and County High School for Girls. From here she won an Open Scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where in 1960 she was awarded an honours degree in...

Stella Rimington

Dame Stella Whitehouse Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and...

Santa Montefiore

Born in England in 1970 Santa Montefiore grew up on a farm in Hampshire and was educated at Sherborne School for Girls. She read Spanish and Italian at Exeter University and spent much of the 90s in...

Sheridan Hay

Sheridan Hay was born in Tasmania. She worked in bookstores and in publishing for many years, and holds an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington. She has published short stories and teaches...

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.Dorothy L. Sayers is...

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company...

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. He also writes his own screenplays and libretti for opera. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in...

Leslie Thomas

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, March 22nd 1931 Died Wiltshire May 6th 2014, Leslie Thomas was the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next...

Kevin Lewis

Born in 1970 in Southeast London, Kevin's childhood years were spent in the city's rough council estates. The violent and depraved conditions that Kevin lived in are documented in his...

Tayeb Salih

The Sudanese writer al-Tayyib Salih (Arabic: الطيب صالح)has been described as the "genius of the modern Arabic novel." He has lived abroad for most of his life, yet his fiction is firmly...

Fiona Harper

I started writing fiction in 2004 after finding a few scribbled scenes I had written more than a decade ago. I had expected to cringe as I read it, but instead I was pleasantly surprised. A short...

Michael J. Sullivan

Did you miss The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter Kickstarter? You can buy copies from our online store, now. The book will be in the retail chains in June.★6-time Goodread Choice Award...

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