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Fran Warde has worked all over the globe, from mountains to high seas and beach barbecues, all in the pursuit of culinary perfection. Raised in the rural West Country and an enthusiastic cook as a child, she studied hotel and catering management and after an eighteen-month stint at The Café R...
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Daniel Weissbort is a poet, translator and academic, best known for his translations and anthologies of Russian and Eastern European poetry. Born in London in 1935, he was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he met his life-long friend Ted Hughes. In 1965 Hughes and he foun...
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Martin Vander Weyer is one of Britain’s most distinctive financial journalists, with a reputation for writing about business, economics and financial morality in an accessible and entertaining style. He is the Business Editor and ‘Any Other Business’ columnist of The Spectator<...
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Hugh Ross Williamson: 1901-1978 Hugh Ross Williamson was a prolific British historian and dramatist, with over forty books to his name, and was particularly noted for producing the first critical study of T. S. Eliot, The Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932). His best-known books ...
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Henry Wilson is an award-winning photographer, and was raised in Nigeria where his first pictures were taken with a Box Brownie camera. Trained at the Chelsea School of Art, his work has appeared in many international magazines and newspapers, among them World of Interiors, Architectura...
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Tim Wilson is a farmer and a butcher with a passion and a hobby that got out of control. He breeds, feeds, butchers and sells all his own livestock in his very individual Ginger Pig shops. In just over fifteen years Tim has become an expert on rearing rare breeds of livestock and a champion of susta...
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Stephen Wiltshire is one of Britain’s leading artists, recognised as an “autistic savant” and renowned memory artist. Born in London to West Indian parents, as a child he was mute and did not relate to other human beings. He was diagnosed as autistic: he had no language, uncontroll...
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Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the highly acclaimed Maisie Dobbs detective novels. She was born and raised in England, and worked in publishing before moving to the United States in 1990. She is a regular contributer to educational journals, has published articles in women’s magazines an...
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Trevor Wright is a Midlands-based author and playwright, and has recently retired from teaching. He has worked as a petrol pump attendant, barman, waiter, and drummer in a rhythm-and-blues band, and successfully juggled his duties in school with his writing for many years. The author of two novels ...
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Qiu Xiaolong is the bestselling author of the Inspector Chen Mysteries. Raised in Shanghai and now a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association, he has published poetry, translations and criticism extensively in China. He has lived in the US since 1989, and has had work published in literary m...
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