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Dame Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living British novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for both stage and television, five of her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, most recently Master Georgie, which went on to wi...
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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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Cara Black is the author of the popular Aimée Leduc crime series. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son, and is a frequent visitor to Paris. So far the mystery series runs to eight books, and has recently been picked up by Constable & Robinson in the UK. The books will appea...
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From 1990 to 2008 Thomas Blaikie was an English teacher at a leading North London girls’ school, where he outlived three headmistresses. At various times he has also reviewed regularly for The Spectator, the Irish Press, the Birmingham Post and the Yorkshire Post...
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Tamsin Blanchard is a journalist and author, specialising in fashion and design. She attended the Fashion Communication & Promotion degree at Central Saint Martins and in 1998 launched, published and co-edited IT, a limited edition fashion and visual arts bi-annual magazine. She started working ...
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Michael Bloch is a freelance historian and writer. He read Law at St. John’s College, Cambridge, before being called to the Bar. He later worked with Suzanne Blum, the French lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and throughout this period had privileged access to the Windsor files in Par...
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Dr Ronald Blythe has had a long and illustrious career as a critic and writer. He made his name with Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969), an evocative book about agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He has since written both novels and short s...
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Lauren Booth is a broadcaster and journalist, outspoken on issues as diverse as childhood vaccinations and the war in Iraq. She has presented programmes for television (Five, GMTV, ITV, BBC1) and radio (BBC LondonLive 94,9 FM) and guests on programmes across the media, from Loose Ends to
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Douglas Botting is a British author, biographer, historian, explorer, and documentary film maker. Whilst still an undergraduate at Oxford, he led the first scientific expedition since the nineteenth century to the island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea, and his first book, Island of the Dragon'...
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Dr. Marjorie Boulton is an author and poet, published in both English and Esperanto. Her first (English) collection of poems was called Preliminaries, followed by Kontralte (Esperanto, 1955), with further poetry published well into the 1980s, as well as Virino che la landlimo
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