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Lawrence Scott is from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the prize-winning author of the novel Aelred’s Sin (1998), which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1999 for Best Book in Canada and the Caribbean. Night Calypso (2004), his most recent novel, was short-listed for the ...
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Karen Smith was a dancer with The Royal Ballet until a serious car accident broke her neck and left her temporarily paralysed. Through exercise and fitness methods she made a full recovery, in particular using Pilates to rebuild both her body and her confidence, and in doing so found her new career....
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Gordon Snell is a much-loved children’s novelist, and is also a broadcaster, playwright, and author of several books for adults. In total, he has written over thirty children’s books in verse and in prose, has penned song lyrics and librettos, and worked as a writer and interviewer for n...
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Charles Spencer is a well-known journalist and leading theatre critic, and the author of a series of witty and acerbic thrillers based in the worlds of theatre journalism and showbusiness. He was educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford, and after spells on the Evening Standard,...
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Colin Spencer is an author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright and lecturer, and is considered one of the finest food writers in the country. He was first published over fifty years ago in The London Magazine, and he wrote a food column for The Guardian for thirteen years. He is t...
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Ali Spritzler is an Anglo-American poet, who now writes fiction and radio drama. She was born in Los Angeles, graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and has lived in Britain since 1987. Her poetry was first published in the Observer, and her poems were featured in Fabe...
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Adrian Stewart is a World War II historian and writer, recognised as a leading authority on naval and aerial warfare. Educated at Rugby School and Caius College, Cambridge, his books include The Battle of Leyte Gulf (1979), Hurricane: The War Exploits of the Fighter Aircraft (1982)...
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Alan Strachan is an acclaimed theatre director, and has recently turned his hand to biographies. Born and educated in Dundee, he received degrees from the universities of St. Andrews and Oxford before moving to London, where he embarked on a career of astonishing range and success. He has worked wit...
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Arthur Swinson: 1916-1970 Arthur Swinson was a distinguished soldier with a lifelong passion for writing, who produced an astonishing array of books. Born in St. Albans, he trained as an army officer cadet at Sandhurst before seeing action as an infantryman in India, Assam, Burma an...
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