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Phil Rickman is the author of the successful Merrily Watkins crime thrillers, as well as a variety of other thrillers under various pseudonyms. Born in Lancashire, he has spent most of his adult life in Wales and the Border country. He was a journalist on the local evening paper, then switched to ra...
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Gillian Riley is an addiction counsellor and writer. She ran the successful Full Stop courses on stopping smoking until 1997, and has since worked on the Eating Less seminars, which deal with overeating issues. After a number of years in America, she returned to London in the 1980s...
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Ian Robertson was born in Tokyo and educated at Stowe, and spent several years working in publishing, before relocating to the continent to work as a freelance author and editor. He writes extensively on military history, and his books include Wellington at War: an Overview and Guide (2000)...
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Gail Robinson is a Canadian novelist, radio broadcaster and poet, called “a beautiful writer” by The Irish Times. Her two books of children’s stories, Coyote the Trickster and Raven the Trickster, are retellings of North American Indian myths, and stories...
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Lynne is an internationally renowned Pilates teacher, and is at the forefront of Pilates in the UK and across the world. She is firmly established as one of the world’s top-selling authors and presenters, and her books and videos are sold in over thirty countries. She is co-founder and directo...
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Barnaby Rogerson is a travel writer and historian, specialising in subjects relating to North Africa and the lands of the old Ottoman Empire. Conceived on a yacht, born in Scotland and raised on Malta, Barnaby has worked in a succession of jobs including two stints in publishing, as well as for the ...
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A. L. Rowse: 1903-1997 Alfred Leslie Rowse was a prolific British historian, with over a hundred published books to his name. He is best known for his extensive work on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall, and was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer. Born and r...
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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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