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Max Fatchen is Australia’s best known children’s author and poet. He grew up on an Adelaide Plains farm, entered journalism as a copy boy, and after World War II became a journalist, covering assignments such as the first atomic bomb at Maralinga and the assassination of President Kenned...
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Born in Manchester and brought up in Cheshire, Kate Fenton now lives on the North York Moors with her husband, actor Ian Carmichael. While reading PPE at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Kate supplemented her grant by playing the piano in Blackpool hotels and at the end of the occasional pier...
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Christopher Fildes is one of Britain’s most distinguished financial journalists, “the doyen of London’s financial columnists.” For over twenty years he wrote the ‘City and Suburban’ column in The Spectator, and for many years wrote a column on the world&r...
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Peter Fleming: 1907-1971 Peter Fleming was a British explorer and travel writer. The older brother of Ian Fleming, Peter was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford. Special correspondent for The Times for many years, Peter also wrote for The Spectato...
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Clare Francis grew up in Surrey, also spending time in the Yorkshire Dales and the Isle of Wight – this upbringing helped develop the love of landscape that is such a feature of her fiction. She studied at both the Royal Ballet School and UCL, before setting off on what turned into an “u...
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Dick Francis is one of the greatest and most successful thriller writers in the world. He was born in South Wales and served in the RAF for six years during WWII, before returning to his equestrian roots. The son of a jockey, Dick became a celebrity in the world of British National Hunt racing, winn...
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The younger of two sons of Dick and Mary Francis, after seventeen years as a teacher, Felix took on the role of managing his father’s affairs in 1991 – a job he continues to this day. Over the past 40 years he has assisted with the research on many of the Dick Francis novels, in particul...
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Rivkie Fried was born in Israel, raised in Tel Aviv and New York, and has lived in London for many years. As a journalist, she covered the Middle East for Reuters News Agency and for radio, both in occupied Syria and Lebanon. On moving to London she worked at the BBC World Service for several years,...
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Alexander Fullerton: 1924-2008 Alexander (Sandy) Fullerton was a much-loved author of modern British naval fiction, whose writing career spanned over fifty years. Born in Suffolk and brought up in France, he enrolled as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth at the age of jus...
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