Donald Payne is a prolific author, and has been writing for writing under a number of pseudonyms. Educated at Charterhouse and Corpus Christi, Oxford, Donald served in the Second World War as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, and after working in publishing became a full time writer in the 1950s. He has...
Delores Phillips was born in Georgia. She is a graduate of Cleveland State University and works as a nurse in a facility for abused women and children in Cleveland. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed The Darkest Child, published in 2005 by Marion Boyars.
Alison Plowden: Alison Plowden was a history writer, who specialised in engaging and readable studies of the Tudor and Stuart periods. She was born in India, and worked as a scriptwriter and editor for the BBC before leaving to work full-time as a writer. She had a great many books...
French born Agnès Poirier is a journalist and author, with an impressive track-record in print, broadcasting and online. Educated first at the Sorbonne, then the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and most recently the LSE, she moved to London to write for Le Monde
David Pownall is an internationally-renowned playwright, who also has novels, poetry and a local history book to his name. Born in Liverpool and educated at Keele University, he worked for ten years in the motor industry and Zambian copper mining before turning his attention to the theatre. He is dr...
Alex Preston was born in 1979, and lives in Hackney with his wife and son. He is Global Head of Trading in The Carlyle Group's Leveraged Finance division. He studied English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford, and is currently completing an MA at Birkbeck University. This Bleedin...
