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Ian Cameron is one of the pseudonyms of the author Donald Payne. 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 ghost-written and co-authored ma...
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Patricia Carlon: 1927-2002 Patricia Carlon was one of Australia’s top crime writers, known for her absorbing and intelligent work. She had fourteen crime novels published in Britain in the 1960s, before finding a wider international audience, in particular in the US. Secretly ...
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One of the most familiar faces of American sport in this country, Mike Carlson has presented Channel Five’s NFL coverage for the past ten seasons, as well as serving as the analyst for BBC’s Super Bowl coverage from 2008 onwards. He’s hosted the NFL on Sky, worked on Super Bowls fo...
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Chantal Coady is the founder of Rococo Chocolates, with shops on London’s Kings Road and Marylebone High Street. She founded the Campaign for Real Chocolate in 1986, and was the co-founder of The Chocolate Society in 1991. Chantal is regularly called upon for broadcasts and consultanc...
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Barbara Comyns: 1909–1992 Barbara Comyns was an original and visual writer, whose idiosyncratic novels have been described as “like pictures painted on glass”. She was brought up in rural Warwickshire, one of six children of an increasingly unsuccessful Birmingham...
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As both an actress and an author, Judy Cornwell career has spanned over 50 years. She began her theatrical career as a dancer and singer in pantomime, revue, vaudeville, cabaret and musicals. She has played leading roles in the West End and with some of the country’s most eminent repertory com...
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Dublin-born Elaine Crowley is one of Ireland’s finest living female writers. She began writing when her six children had all left home, and her work is known for its wistful elegance and intimacy, focusing on historical Dublin and Ireland. The first novel she published was the bestselling
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Dr. C. W. Cunnington: 1878-1961, and Dr. P. E. Cunnington: 1887- Drs. Cecil Willett and Phillis Emily Cunnington were the authors of numerous highly illustrated and meticulously researched books on clothing and costume. Their many titles include A Dictionary of En...
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Brothers Adrian and Michael Daniel have been running The Gate, London’s most successful vegetarian restaurant, since December 1989. Described as “where Asia meets the Mediterranean”, the restaurant's eclectic repertoire is influenced by Mediterranean, Pacific Rim and internatio...
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Born in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat spoke only a few words of English by the age of 12, when her parents moved to New York. Her first novel was Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), and it introduced an author keen to expose her country's traumatic history and engage with the Haitia...
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