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Georgia Byng
Georgia Byng trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama and between acting jobs started writing and illustrating stories for children.
Anthony Capella
Anthony Capella was born in Uganda, Africa in 1962. He was educated at St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he graduated with a First in English Literature. The Food of Love, his first novel, was a Richard and Judy Summer Read in the UK. It has been translated into nineteen languages.
Sally Clarke
Sally Clarke studied cookery at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris, where daily experience of the city’s vegetable markets, cafes and restaurants fired her interest in the world of food and wine. California, where she lived and worked for the next four years, was her next source of inspiration.
Peter Collett
For many years Peter Collett was a member of staff at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology, where he taught and researched topics including body language, culture, management style, personality and television audiences.
Michael Coveney
Theatre critic Michael Coveney has won the inaugural Architectural History Book of the Year award for his 2022 publication of MASTER OF THE HOUSE: THE THEATRES OF CAMERON MACKINTOSH.
Alan Davidson
The Estate of Peter Dickinson
Born in Zambia in 1927, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels.
The Estate of Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction.
Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans was born in 1950 in Worcestershire, was educated at Bromsgrove School, and then read Law at Oxford. During the 1970s he cut his teeth as a trainee journalist and then as a TV reporter, specializing in US politics and foreign affairs, most notably covering the war in Beirut.
Patrick Gale
Born on the Isle of Wight in 1962, Patrick Gale spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, where his father was Governor, then grew up in Winchester. He now lives on a farm near Land’s End.