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Alicia Foster trained as an art historian before becoming a novelist. Her first novel Warpaint (Penguin, Figtree, 2013) tells the…

James Owen is an author and a journalist. His first book A Serpent in Eden (Little, Brown, 2005) told the…

Marcy Kahan is an award-winning radio and theatre playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: 20 Cigarettes (Soho Theatre, 2007), a…

Charles Boyle’s publications include poetry, fiction and work that combines fiction with non-fiction. His poetry collections have been shortlisted for…

Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for all the national broadsheets and the book-trade press.…

Ian Thomson is an award-winning biographer, travel writer, translator and literary critic known for his interest in Italy, the West…

Jean McNeil is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, but has lived in London since 1991. She is the author of…

Sue Gee is the author of 10 novels, including most recently Coming Home (2013) about the return from India after…

A former head of English and English adviser, Sabrina is a novelist, journalist and part-time English and film studies teacher…

Michelene Wandor is a playwright, poet, fiction writer and musician. She is the first woman playwright to have had a…

John Hands is an internationally acclaimed author of two non-fiction books and three novels. John’s first book, Housing Co-operatives, was…

Tony Gould is a non-fiction writer with a special interest in biography and history. His biography Inside Outsider: the life…

Katharine McMahon is the author of ten novels including the international bestseller The Rose of Sebastopol (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008),…

Alison Fell has published eight novels, including Mer de Glace (which won the 1991 Boardman-Tasker award for mountain literature), The…

Ruth Brandon began her working life at the BBC, which she joined as a general trainee after reading French and…