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Joanna Hall is a leading UK fitness, diet and lifestyle expert, named by Cosmopolitan magazine as “the UK’s most influential woman in fitness”. Her Guardian column, “All you need to know about…” is read by millions every week and she is a frequent face o...
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Michael Hamburger: 1924–2007 Michael Hamburger, OBE, was a noted British poet, translator and academic, and a key figure in English and European letters for over 60 years. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Günter Gras...
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James Hamilton-Paterson is a diverse and talented author, and one of the most reclusive of British literary exiles. His work defies accurate definition, containing elements of travel writing, autobiography, fiction and science. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he won the prestigious Newdiga...
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Joseph Hansen: 1923-2004 Joseph Hansen was an American mystery writer, who wrote nearly 40 books under a number of pseudonyms and in a variety of genres. He is best known for his Dave Brandstetter mystery novels about a tough but decent insurance investigator who is also unapologet...
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Robin Hardy is a screenwriter, producer, director, playwright and novelist. He is best known for the cult 1973 film The Wicker Man, which he directed. The novelisation was co-written with the screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, and has been reprinted in many editions, most recently 2006. His ...
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Michael Hastings is the award-winning playwright and librettist, whose diverse and critically acclaimed work has been a main-stay of London theatre for many years. Born and raised in Brixton, he served a three-year tailoring apprenticeship before joining George Devine’s English Stage Company a...
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Elizabeth Hawksley was a ‘scribbling child’ and completed six historical novels between the ages of ten and sixteen. She studied at the Sorbonne, read English at the University of Sussex, did a PGCE at the Institute of Education, and gained a distinction in her MA in Victorian Studies at...
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Dr. David Boyd Haycock is a Wellcome Research Fellow in the social and economic history of medicine at the London School of Economics. He has studied on both sides of the Atlantic, and has written, contributed to and edited a variety of academic books on the history of science and medicine as well a...
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Sam Hayes was born and raised in the Midlands, and started writing at the age of ten. She has worked as a private investigator, accounts assistant, nursery nurse and waitress, and could fly a plane before she could drive a car. Sam has lived all around the world but eventually settled back in the Mi...
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Bessie Head: 1937-1986 Bessie Head, one of South Africa’s most prominent authors, was born in South Africa but spent most of her life in exile in Botswana. The child of an illegal union between a Scottish woman and a black man, Head was taken from her mother at birth and raise...
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