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Emily Midorikawa

Emily Midorikawa

Emily Midorikawa is the co-author of A Secret Sisterhood, a book about the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, to be published in...

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Laura Powell

Laura Powell

Laura Powell is a commissioning editor at the Daily Telegraph and was previously a features writer at the Daily Mail. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Mail on Sunday,...

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Emma Claire Sweeney

Emma Claire Sweeney

Emma Claire Sweeney is a writer who has won Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards, and been shortlisted for several others, including the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish....

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William Shaw

William Shaw

The Sunday Mirror has called William Shaw’s new standalone novel The Birdwatcher, ‘a brilliantly constructed thriller, utterly compulsive’. His Breen and Tozer series, set in...

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Andrea Bennett

Andrea Bennett

Andrea Bennett came to writing fairly late. After her initial career choice of 'artist' fell by the way-side, she tried her hand at many things: translator, civil servant and charity...

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Andreas Loizou

Andreas Loizou

Andreas Loizou is the founder of the Margate Bookie. He’s the major shareholder of kentrification.com, a website for artisan-made digital paperweights. Kentrification – I...

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David Quantick

David Quantick

David Quantick is an Emmy-winning writer and broadcaster. He has written for many TV shows (Veep, The Thick Of It, Harry Hill’s TV Burp), for radio (The Blagger’s Guide, One, Broken...

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Salena Godden

Salena Godden

Salena Godden is one of Britain's foremost spoken word artists and poets. A regular performer at literary festivals in a career that is now entering its third decade, Salena...

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David Young

David Young

David Young was born near Hull and lives in Twickenham. Before becoming a full-time author he spent more than 25 years as a news editor, with BBC World radio and TV. His debut novel...

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Sophia Tobin

Sophia Tobin

Sophia Tobin was raised on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. Having graduated from the Open University, she moved to London to study History of Art, then worked for a Bond Street antique...

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