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  • 29 August 2010

    Reviewing reviews

    As a first-time author (my novel THE YOUNG CHIEFTAIN is published on Thursday, September 2) I am interested in the comments of other authors on the subject of book reviewing. Things are obviously changing fast as newspapers and magazines fight for survival and curtail the space available for book r...

  • 24 August 2010

    The Fourth Book

    Hello readers and Craig I wanted to know when the next book is out

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  • 29 August 2010

    The tragedy of SS Greenawn

    The SS Greenawn left London on her fateful final voyage in March 1941 bound for the Scottish port of Invergordon with a cargo of cement in bags. She was last seen passing Montrose and then simply disa...

  • 22 August 2010

    SS Cushendall

    We pitched up at Stonehaven harbour today expecting to have to call off the planned dive 5 miles out due to marginal sea conditions. Offshore we could see white crests breaking atop a large swell. Tru...

  • 21 August 2010

    Reviews

    Here’s the review of If I Never See You Again which appeared in the Irish Independent: Recently promoted Detective Inspector Jo Birmingham is a streetwise, spiky single mother trying with considerabl...

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  • Adele Geras

    ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over thirty years ago and is the author of more than ninety books for young readers, including Happy Ever After,...

    Front cover of 'Good Luck, Louisa!: Litle Swan Ballet Book 6'

    Good Luck, Louisa!: Litle Swan Ballet Book 6

    Louisa is horrified when she gets the news that Miss Matting's Ballet school has to close down. The...

  • Andrea Busfield

    Andrea Busfield was born in Warrington in 1970. During her fifteen years as a journalist she worked for The Western Gazette in Yeovil, Somerset; News Team International in Birmingham; The Sun in Londo...

    Front cover of 'Born Under a Million Shadows'

    Born Under a Million Shadows

    The Taliban have disappeared from Kabuls streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain...

  • Andrew Parker

      Born in 1967 in England, Professor Andrew Parker moved to Australia in 1990 where he spent ten years studying marine biology and physics. On returning to the UK as a Royal Society University Resear...

    Front cover of 'The Genesis Enigma'

    The Genesis Enigma

    Why is the Bibles creation story written as it is?The first page of Genesis features no humans at al...

  • Andrew Rosenheim

    Andrew Rosenheim came to England from America as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977 and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of Stillriver,  Keeping Secrets, and most recently Without Prejudice. H...

    Front cover of 'Keeping Secrets'

    Keeping Secrets

    It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.The birds had suddenly gone quiet, and the b...

  • Anna Shepard

    Anna Shepard is a writer for The Times, contributing features, interviews, book reviews and comment pieces. She wrote the Eco-Worrier column in the Saturday edition for four years. She has also writte...

    Front cover of 'How green Are My Wellies?: Small Steps And Giant Leaps To Green Living With Style'

    How green Are My Wellies?: Small Steps And Giant Leaps To Green Living With Style

    Ever wondered how you can be green with glamour? Or how to make the very best of life and feel virtu...

  • Anthony McGowan

      Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester in 1965. He went to school in Leeds. He has an M.Phil in philosophy and a PhD on the history of the concept of beauty He has worked as a nightclub bouncer, civ...

    Front cover of 'The Bare Bum Gang and the Valley of Doom'

    The Bare Bum Gang and the Valley of Doom

    Ludo, Noah, Jamie, Phillip and Jennifer are THE BARE BUM GANG! They have an embarrassing name but a...

  • Ariana Franklin

    Ariana Franklin was born in Devon and, like her father, became a journalist. Having invaded Wales dressed in combat uniform with the Royal Marines for one of their military exercises, accompanied the...

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    The Assassin's Prayer

    The King of England has ordered his Mistress of the Art of Death anatomist and doctor Adelia Aguila...

  • Barbara Bloomfield

    'I love writing and I love the subtle dance of relationships.' For the last year, Barbara has been researching The Relate Guide to Finding Love, distilling the experiences of both romance-seekers and...

    Front cover of 'The Relate Guide to Finding Love'

    The Relate Guide to Finding Love

    Why are you looking for love right now? What kind of relationship do you want? How will you know whe...

  • Candy Gourlay

    Candy Gourlay was a journalist writing about dictators in the Third World before she took up a full time position battling dictators of the nappy-clad variety. She inadvertently became a web designer...

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    Tall Story

    Be careful what you wish for . . . Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could p...

  • Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of several highly acclaimed novels including Pay it Forward, which was made into a film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. In 2007 her novel Love in the Present Te...

    Front cover of 'Love In The Present Tense'

    Love In The Present Tense

    So much of how it was started when that cop got out and came up to me. But I didn't know all this wh...

  • Chris Eakin

    Chris is a presenter on the BBC News Channel. He has been a journalist on newspapers and in broadcasting for more than 25 years. He is a qualified Offshore Yachtmaster. He lives in London.

    Front cover of 'A Race Too Far'

    A Race Too Far

    In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never be...

  • Christine Hill

    I live in London with my husband. We have three grown up children and a small grandchild who I am lucky enough to look after one day a week.I trained as a physiotherapist at St. Mary’s Hospital, Londo...

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    Christine Hill's Pregnancy Guide: The essential handbook for all expectant mothers

    Having spent the last 25 years taking ante- and post-natal classes, Christine Hill knows what questi...

  • Christopher Fowler

    Christopher Fowler writes novels, short story collections and screenplays, and has had around thirty books published to date. His story The Master Builder became a movie starring Tippi Hendren. Anothe...

    Front cover of 'Bryant and May Off the Rails'

    Bryant and May Off the Rails

    Theyve been given just one week to find a killer theyd caught once before . . . Arthur Bryant, John...

  • Christopher Stocks

    An award-winning journalist, editor and copywriter, Christopher has written for, among others, the Daily Telegraph, ES, Patek Philippe magazine and Wallpaper, reporting on everything from Uruguayan b...

    Front cover of 'Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain’s traditional fruit and vegetables'

    Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain’s traditional fruit and vegetables

    In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behin...

  • Clare Byam-Cook

    Clare Byam-Cook trained as a nurse and midwife. She has worked as a breast-feeding specialist in Christine Hill's private antenatal practice in Chiswick since 1989 and previously worked as a midwife a...

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    Top Tips for Bottle-feeding

    The invaluable advice from Clare Byam-Cooks bestselling guide What To Expect When Youre Breast-feedi...

  • Craig Simpson

    Born in the New Forest in 1962, Craig Simpson spent his childhood in southern England. At eighteen he packed his bags and headed off to veterinary school in Bristol. Soon realizing the study of anatom...

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    Special Operations: Death Ray

    Finn Gunnersen and his friends Loki and Freya have been recruited by the enigmatic X as special agen...

  • Danny Kelly

    Here's the raw truth. Danny Baker and I have been working together for years. We win all the big prizes for our radio broadcasts, newspaper columns and podcasts. Then we are unceremoniously sacked. We...

    Front cover of 'Classic Football Debates Settled Once and For All, Vol.1'

    Classic Football Debates Settled Once and For All, Vol.1

    At last! The award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radical and unreliable fo...

  • Dee Shulman

    Dee Shulman has written and /or illustrated about fifty books for children, ranging from board books to teenage fiction. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Italian...

    Front cover of 'My Totally Secret Diary: On Stage in America'

    My Totally Secret Diary: On Stage in America

    Polly Price is SO embarrassed by her actor mother, who loves to draw attention to herself and hog th...

  • Doug Jackson

    I was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders in the summer of 1956. Educated at Parkside Primary School and Jedburgh Grammar School, I left three weeks before my 16th birthday with six O levels and...

    Front cover of 'Claudius'

    Claudius

    The year is 43AD . . .In Southern England, Caratacus, war chief of the Britons, watches from a hillt...

  • Ewan Morrison

    Ewan Morrison is the author of the novels Ménage, Swung and Distance and the collection of short stories, The Last Book You Read. He was recently made the recipient of Scottish Arts Council writers bu...

    Front cover of 'Ménage'

    Ménage

    Is the menage a trois a way to live, or just a dream, impossible in reality?In 1993, Dot, Saul and O...

  • Fiona Mountain

    Fiona Mountain was a press officer at BBC Radio 1 for ten years. She is the author of three previous novels, but only returned to writing after the birth of her four children. She lives in the Cotswol...

    Front cover of 'Lady of the Butterflies'

    Lady of the Butterflies

    On the ancient marshlands of Somerset - a place of mists and magic - a girl grows up in the shadow o...

  • Fred Pearce

    Fred Pearce was recently described by The Times as one of Britain's finest science writers. Based in London, he has reported on environmental, popular science and development issues from over 60 count...

    Front cover of 'When The Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?'

    When The Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?

    The world is running out of water. Some of our largest rivers now trickle into sand miles from the o...

  • Giles Kristian

    Having Viking ancestors himself,Giles Kristian believes that the story of Raven has always been in his blood waiting, like the Norsemen, for the right time to burst upon the world. Inspired by both h...

    Front cover of 'Raven: Sons of Thunder'

    Raven: Sons of Thunder

    If you betray a Fellowship you are a dead man, and Ealdorman Ealdred of Wessex had betrayed us.With...

  • Grant McKenzie

    Born in Scotland, living in Canada and writing American fiction, I like to cover all the bases. My debut novel, SWITCH, will be published on July 2, 2009. My short stories have been featured in Out...

    Front cover of 'Switch'

    Switch

    How far would you go to save the ones you love? Would you run five traffic lights in a row? Would yo...

  • James Patterson

    James Patterson is one of the best-known and bestselling writers of all time. He is the author of the two bestselling detective series of the past decade, the Alex Cross novels and the Womens Murder C...

    Front cover of 'Maximum Ride: Max'

    Maximum Ride: Max

    Nobody said saving the world would be easy.Until now, Max and the flock have lived a lonely existenc...

  • Jane Casey

    Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. She then studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, followed by an mPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Married to a criminal barris...

    Front cover of 'The Missing'

    The Missing

    Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missingHer teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that...

  • Jason Webster

    Jason Webster is a travel writer, critic and leading author on Spain. Born near San Francisco in 1970, he grew up in England and Germany. After studying Arabic and Islamic History at Oxford University...

    Front cover of 'Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco'

    Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco

    Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set t...

  • Jo Rees

    Jo Rees published her first novel when she was 26.  She went on to write several screenplays and internationally successful novels with her husband, Emlyn Rees, including the number one bestseller, Co...

    Front cover of 'Platinum'

    Platinum

    The Maid - Frankie Willis is a twenty-five-year-old blonde computer whizzkid, searching for adventur...

  • Joanne Harris

    Joanne Harris is the author of a number of books, including "Chocolat", "Five Quarters of the Orange", "Gentlemen & Players", "The Lollipop Shoes". You can find out more about Joanne's books on her we...

    Front cover of 'Blueeyedboy'

    Blueeyedboy

    'Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the...

  • John Macken

    John Macken works as a research scientist in a large windowless building. He is married with two children.

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    Breaking Point

    Everybody has their breaking point. The point beyond which anything is possible, where you would fig...

  • John Man

    John Man is a historian and writer with special interests in Central Asia and the history of written communication.  He takes particular pleasure in combining historical narrative with personal experi...

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    Attila The Hun

    The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly hou...

  • Jonathan Hayes

    Hayes Bio   Jonathan Hayes attended medical school at the University of London. Graduating with honors, he did internships in medicine and surgery before moving to the United States. He trained in an...

    Front cover of 'Precious Blood'

    Precious Blood

    They found her in the East Village, nailed to the wall of a railroad flatDr. Edward Jenner is a New...

  • Judi James

    Judi James is a leading television expert in body language, social behaviour, image, workplace culture and communication skills and has her own four-part body language series on Channel Five called Na...

    Front cover of 'Poker Face: How to win poker at the table and online'

    Poker Face: How to win poker at the table and online

    Understanding body language is vital for success in any walk of life, but in the game of poker it ca...

  • Judith Allnatt

    Judith writes fiction and poetry, sometimes drawing on the landscape, history and fascinating characters of rural Northamptonshire, where she lives. Her first novel, 'A Mile of River', was shortlisted...

    Front cover of 'A Mile of River'

    A Mile of River

    It is 1976 and England is suffocating. The long, dry spring has given way to a summer of severe drou...

  • Julia Widdows

    Julia Widdows was born in London and now lives in Brighton. She is a prize-winning short story writer, and has run creative writing groups in a variety of settings, including with recovering addicts a...

    Front cover of 'Living In Perhaps'

    Living In Perhaps

    Carol has always resented her family - her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his obsession...

  • Julian Thompson

    Julian Thompson served in the Royal Marines for 34 years in many places and campaigns round the world, retiring as Major General. He commanded 3 Commando Brigade, which carried out the initial landing...

    Front cover of 'Forgotten Voices of Burma: A New History of the Second World War's Forgotten Conflict in the Words of Those Who Were There'

    Forgotten Voices of Burma: A New History of the Second World War's Forgotten Conflict in the Words of Those Who Were There

    From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-E...

  • Ken Howard

    Ken Howard was educated at University College School, London and Edinburgh University. He trained with Granada TV and for several years in the Drama department of BBC TV. His directing career has span...

    Front cover of 'The Young Chieftain'

    The Young Chieftain

    Has life ever ganged up on you, hit you from behind and forced you to become a totally new person?It...

  • Linda Newbery

    Linda Newbery, winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 2006 with SET IN STONE, has published more than thirty books for children and young adults. She writes for a wide age-range, from her first pic...

    Front cover of 'The Shell House'

    The Shell House

    The Shell House is a beautifully written and sensitive portrayal of love, sexuality and spirituality...

  • Lisa Unger

    LISA UNGER is an award winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. Her novels have been published in over 26 countries around the world. She was born in New Haven, Connecti...

    Front cover of 'Sliver of Truth'

    Sliver of Truth

    Love hurts Sometimes it even killsIts like any other day in New York for freelance writer Ridley Jo...

  • Lucy Edge

    Lucy worked in advertising for many years; spending her days debating whether the Jolly Green Giant should extend his vocabulary beyong 'ho ho ho' and her evenings eating M&S ready meals for one. One...

    Front cover of 'Yoga School Dropout'

    Yoga School Dropout

    A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic new writer. Lucy Edge tells the story of her personal qu...

  • Luisa Plaja

    Luisa Plaja (pronounced 'playa' like the Spanish for 'beach') is a Glasgow-born, Sicily-and-London-bred Extreme Reader. She has two young children and lives in Devon.

    Front cover of 'Swapped By a Kiss'

    Swapped By a Kiss

    Rachel hates her life and everyone in it - she even has suspicions that her on/off boyfriend David m...

  • Mark Pearson

    For the last fifteen years Mark Pearson has worked as a full-time television scriptwriter on a variety of shows for the BBC and ITV, including Doctors, Holby City and The Bill. He lives in Norfolk. HA...

    Front cover of 'Hard Evidence'

    Hard Evidence

    Jackie Malone has been murdered. Her body lies in a pool of blood in the north London flat where she...

  • Melissa Wareham

    Melissa Wareham spent fifteen years at Battersea Dogs Home, from February 1988 to September 2004. Her first job was as a kennel maid at the age of eighteen. She went on to become their rehoming manage...

    Front cover of 'Rescue Me: My Life with the Battersea Dogs'

    Rescue Me: My Life with the Battersea Dogs

    Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised shed...

  • Michael Booth

    Hello. I am a food and travel writer, journalist, father and cook. I write for Condé Nast Traveller, The Independent on Sunday, Esquire, Monocle and quite a few other publications. I once had somethin...

    Front cover of 'Sacré Cordon Bleu'

    Sacré Cordon Bleu

    Michael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs and their recipes. He wants to know how to cook, n...

  • Michael Simkins

    Michael Simkins is a familiar face on the west end stage and TV screens, usually playing experts, policemen or unsuspecting husbands. Most recently he's played Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago and t...

    Front cover of 'Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education'

    Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

    Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt helpfull...

  • Michael Williams

    Michael Williams is a national newspaper and magazine journalist. When he's not travelling around the country on slow trains, he commutes at speed on the 440-mile round rail trip between his home in L...

    Front cover of 'On The Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys'

    On The Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys

    Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's e...

  • Mikkel Birkegaard

    Mikkel Birkegaard lives in Copenhagen. The Library of Shadows is his first novel. It was first published in his native Denmark where it was a national bestseller, and has now gone on to be published i...

    Front cover of 'The Library of Shadows'

    The Library of Shadows

    Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they...

  • Mimi Spencer

    Mimi Spencer is a prizewinning fashion and beauty journalist. She has a column in You magazine and writes for Observer Woman, Grazia and many other magazines and newspapers. She was editor of ES Magaz...

    Front cover of '101 Things to Do Before You Diet'

    101 Things to Do Before You Diet

    Ways to eat, ways to cheat. What to wear, what to ditch.Discover the secrets that really will make a...

  • Miranda Glover

    Miranda Glover read English at Oxford before embarking on a publishing career, specialising in art, design and the web. She has edited several well-received books set in the art field as well as writi...

    Front cover of 'Masterpiece'

    Masterpiece

    Art, fashion, fame and sex artist Esther Glass has it all. That is, until a ghost from her past thr...

  • Mitchell Symons

    Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a w...

    Front cover of 'Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies?'

    Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies?

    Have you ever wondered just what it is that other people get up to in bed, or why it is that some pe...

  • Muriel Zagha

    Muriel Zagha was born and grew up in France. She studied English literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. A lifelong Anglophile, she first came to Britain aged 21 as a French lectrice at C...

    Front cover of 'Finding Monsieur Right'

    Finding Monsieur Right

    A tale of two citiesTwo girlsAnd a life-altering swap.Daisys just landed the perfect job: spending a...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant previously worked in publishing and now runs her own children's literary scouting agency. She grew up in the heart of the French community in London, and has therefore never considered...

    Front cover of 'Diving Into Light'

    Diving Into Light

    Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of...

  • Niamh O’Connor

    Niamh O'Connor is the True Crime editor of Ireland's leading Sunday newspaper, the Sunday World, and the bestselling true crime author of The Black Widow, and Cracking Crime. Her latest book, Blood Ti...

    Front cover of 'If I Never See You Again'

    If I Never See You Again

    The DetectiveMeet Jo Birmingham. Single mum, streetwise detective, and spiky as hell. Recently promo...

  • Nick Drake

    Nick Drake was born in 1961. He is an award-winning poet and screenwriter. He is also Literary Associate at the National Theatre. His first collection of poems, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Bloodaxe), w...

    Front cover of 'Tutankhamun'

    Tutankhamun

    For Rahotep, chief detective, life is about to get very complicated. On the shadowy city streets the...

  • Pam Hobbs

    Pam Hobbs in an award-winning travel writer, who has written for Canada's Globe and Mail amongst other papers and magazines.

    Front cover of 'Don't Forget to Write: The true story of an evacuee and her family'

    Don't Forget to Write: The true story of an evacuee and her family

    Dad walked determinedly down the path, joined by two neighbours with five children between them. As...

  • Patricia Scanlan

    Patricia Scanlan was born in Dublin, where she still lives. Her books have sold world wide and been translated into many languages. She has always been interested in publishing and worked part time as...

    Front cover of 'Coming Home'

    Coming Home

    Two sisterstwo very different lives.Alisons American dream is in tatters. Her highflying career is o...

  • Patrick Woodhead

    Patrick Woodhead spent 8 years exploring some of the most remote places on the planet, from the Amazon jungle to the cold deserts of Antarctica, before settling down to write his first thriller novel,...

    Front cover of 'The Cloud Maker'

    The Cloud Maker

    To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ru...

  • Pete Johnson

    Pete Johnson has now written over forty books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is best known for his award-winning comedies such as ‘How To Train Your Parents,’ ‘Help! I...

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    Phantom Fear

    THE PHANTOM THIEFThe first time Alfie sees the boy, he appears as if from nowhere in the school dete...

  • Peter Ward

    Peter Ward was born in 1958 and grew up in different places all over the Far East, England and Germany. In between Bristol University and finally graduating from Leeds University with a degree in Engl...

    Front cover of 'Dragon Horse'

    Dragon Horse

    Set in ancient China, two brothers fight the classic battle between good and evil as the Shadow-with...

  • Philip Augar

    Philip Augar worked in investment banking for over twenty years. He led NatWests global equity and bond business before becoming a Group Managing Director at Schroders. Since 2000 he has combined cons...

    Front cover of 'Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade'

    Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade

    In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. The incoming Labour government gave...

  • Rebecca Farnworth

    Rebecca Farnworth is a highly successful ghostwriter for one of Britain's most famous celebrities.  She lives in Brighton with her husband and three children. Valentine is her first novel.

    Front cover of 'A Funny Thing About Love'

    A Funny Thing About Love

    The funny thing about love is that just when you think youve got it sorted, it turns round and bites...

  • Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas' first novel, THE SUICIDE CLUB, was released in 2009 and his second, ON THE THIRD DAY, will be out in July 2010.    

    Front cover of 'On The Third Day'

    On The Third Day

    Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. There...

  • Richard Branson

    Sir Richard Branson is a hugely successful international entrepreneur and icon, and is chairman of the Virgin Group.

    Front cover of 'Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space'

    Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space

    As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they...

  • Rick Stroud

    Rick Stroud is a film director and writer. After Oxford University he joined Granada TV where he directed Coronation Street and was an Associate Producer on Brideshead Revisited. Since then he has dir...

    Front cover of 'The Book of the Moon'

    The Book of the Moon

    On July 20th 1969, in one of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century, Neil Armstrong took h...

  • Rod MacDonald

    Rod Macdonald has been diving for 25 years almost exclusively researching, tracking and identifying lost or forgotten shipwrecks. During that time there has however been the odd special scenic dive -...

    Front cover of 'Dive England's Greatest Wrecks'

    Dive England's Greatest Wrecks

    British history is irrevocably tied to the sea. The progress and very survival of this island nation...

  • Rosemary Clement-Moore

    Rosemary Clement-Moore lives and writes in Arlington, Texas. THE SPLENDOR FALLS is the fourth book she has had published in the US for young readers.

    Front cover of 'The Splendour Falls'

    The Splendour Falls

    Sylvie Davies is a ballerina who cant dance. A broken leg ended her career, but what broke her heart...

  • Rowan Coleman

    Rowan Coleman lives in Hertfordshire with her daughter. Before becoming a writing she worked in both bookselling and publishing for seven years. In 2000 she won the Company magazine Young Writer of th...

    Front cover of 'The Happy Home for Broken Hearts'

    The Happy Home for Broken Hearts

    Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits...

  • Rupert James

    Rupert James is a celebrity and fashion journalist. He lives in London and is married to a barrister.   "Sexy, funny, compelling. Silk sizzles!" TILLY BAGSHAWE   Author photo by Jonathan Dredge www.jo...

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    Silk

    Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashionChristine Fairbrother is a high-powered barriste...

  • Sam Enthoven

    For ten years Sam Enthoven worked in a big London bookshop, helping people find the most thrilling books in the world while chasing his dream of becoming a published author himself. In 2006 that dream...

    Front cover of 'TIM Defender of the Earth'

    TIM Defender of the Earth

    TIM is Tyrannosaurus Improved Model. He's a genetically modified dinosaur that the government have b...

  • Sasha Blake

    Sasha Blake leads an amazing double life. She spends every morning with her characters, wafting around the pool of a Hollywood mansion or sunbathing on a private beach in the Maldives. The afternoons...

    Front cover of 'The Wish'

    The Wish

    We all have our dreams. But how far would we go to protect them?Lulu longs for a loving man and fath...

  • Sebastian Faulks

    Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing books full time in 1991. He is the author of A Trick of Light, The Girl at the Lion D'Or, A Fool's Alphabet, The Fatal Eng...

    Front cover of 'On Green Dolphin Street'

    On Green Dolphin Street

    America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired hu...

  • Shappi Khorsandi

    Shappi Khorsandi was born in 1973 in Tehran and moved to London with her family in 1976 who were exiled after the revolution of 1979. She studied drama at university and has now been a stand-up for ov...

    Front cover of 'A Beginner's Guide To Acting English'

    A Beginner's Guide To Acting English

    It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are ab...

  • Steven Carroll

    Born in Melbourne, Steven Carroll taught at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and at the Victoria College of Arts.  He is the Theatre Critic for Australia’s The Sunday Age and is the author...

    Front cover of 'The Art of the Engine Driver'

    The Art of the Engine Driver

    There they are, still as a photograph, listening for the distant thud of the sun as it prepares to d...

  • Stuart Neville

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