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Anthony Adolph is a professional genealogist, writer and broadcaster, and has been tracing family and house histories for over twenty years. He was Research Director of the supporting company of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, and now runs his own successful genealogical practice...
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Vivien Alcock: 1924-2003 Vivien Alcock was the much-loved author of compelling mysteries and supernatural fantasies for children. Her flair for creating sinister and creepy moods was established with the publication of her first book, The Haunting of Cassie Palmer (1980), a...
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Professor Michael Alexander is Honorary Professor of English Literature at the University of St. Andrews. He was educated at the universities of Oxford, Perugia and Princeton, and his academic interests focus on medieval and modern English poetry, literary and cultural history, and translation. His ...
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Patrick Alexander: 1926-2003 Patrick Alexander worked as a reporter and television writer. He travelled widely in Russia and Western Europe, and wrote several successful espionage thrillers. His first novel, Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal (1976), was published to critical a...
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Candace Allen received her BA from Harvard before attending the New York University School of Film & Television. She went on to become the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America. She has worked as an assistant director and screenwriter and is now a novelist. Her d...
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Antony Alpers: 1919-1997 Antony Alpers was a native of New Zealand, born and educated in Christchurch. He enjoyed a successful career as a journalist, music critic, editor, teacher, university professor, and most notably as a biographer and historian. His books include the acclaimed...
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Zoë Anderson is the dance critic of the Independent. She has a doctorate in renaissance literature from the University of York, and as a freelance critic has written for the Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph and Dancing Times. Her book The Royal Ballet: 75 Years
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David Austin has been a sailor, an actor and a farmer, and is a critically acclaimed novelist. Educated at the Pangbourne Nautical College, he went to sea with the Merchant Service, and the sea has always played an important role in his writing. When he came ashore he became a professional actor, an...
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Dame Beryl Bainbridge is acknowledged as one of the greatest living British novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays, five of her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; most recently Master Georgie, which went on to win the Jam...
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Lucy Beresford is a qualified psychotherapist and broadcaster, and her first novel, Something I'm Not, was published by Duckworth in February 2008. Described by Jeremy Vine as “deft and penetrating, the can’t-put-down read of the year”, it is a sh...
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