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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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Lisa Hilton is one of Britain’s most talented young historians. She graduated from New College, Oxford and studied History of Art in Florence and Paris, before working for Christie’s auction house in Paris. In 1999 she was runner-up in the Vogue Young Writer of the Year Award, and her fi...
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Thomas Hinde is a longstanding and well-respected author of both fiction and non-fiction. His first novel, Mr. Nicholas (1952), was the start of a literary career that has spanned over fifty years. Widely considered amongst the finest writers of his day, he has written and edited over thirt...
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Ursula Holden is the author of a number of novels and short stories. She was born in Dorset, and has lived in Dublin and London throughout her life. She came to prominence with the three Fallen Angels novels – Endless Race (1975), String Horses (1976) and Turnsti...
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Clarissa Hyman is an award-winning freelance writer, specialising in all aspects of food and travel. She contributes to a wide range of newspapers, magazines and guides, and has had three books published: Cucina Siciliana (2002), The Jewish Kitchen (2003), and The Spanish Kitch...
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Jenny Joseph is one of Britain’s finest living poets, and best known as the author of 'Warning', which has twice been voted the Britain's favourite poem of the twentieth century. She was born in Birmingham and studied English at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and subs...
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Gabriel Josipovici is a British novelist, playwright and critic. Born in Nice of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents, he lived in Egypt until he came to the UK in 1956. He read English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and was for many years a member of the School of European Studies at the University...
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Jessie Kesson: 1916-1994 Jessie Kesson was the author of successful novels, poetry and plays for radio and television. Born in Inverness and raised in Elgin, she spent part of her childhood in an orphanage, and worked in jobs ranging from a cinema cleaner to an artist’s model...
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Chris d’Lacey is a highly successful and popular children’s author. Born in Malta, he now lives in Leicester with his wife, Jay. Originally hoping to be a songwriter, Chris didn’t write fiction until he was 32, and it was another few years before he saw his first book published, ca...
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Dr. Jordan Lancaster began her career as an academic specialising in Italian intellectual history, and now works full time as a translator and interpreter in the City of London. Born in Canada, she has studied at the universities of Cambridge, Bologna and Perugia, and holds a PhD in Italian Studies....
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