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Ruth Rendell
Since her first novel FROM DOON WITH DEATH, published in 1964, Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A DEMON IN MY VIEW, and the Arts Council National Book Award, genre fiction, for LAKE OF DARKNESS in 1980.
Rennie Airth
Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and worked for a number of years as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. He is best known for his John Madden novels, the idea for which came to the author when he found, among some family papers, mementoes of an uncle who was killed in the First World War.
Douglas Dunn
In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year.
Jill Dawson
Jill Dawson is the author of ten novels, including The Language of Birds, The Crime Writer
Jenny Smith
Jenny Smith was born and raised in Glasgow, and has lived in Oxfordshire for almost twenty years.
Deric Longden
Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin was the Labour MP for Sunderland South from 1987 until 2010. He played a key role in Tony Blair's New Labour government, chairing the Home Affairs Select Committee and served in three departments.
Redmond O'Hanlon
Redmond O'Hanlon is an explorer in the nineteenth-century mould. In addition to his two best-selling travel books he has published scholarly works on nineteenth-century science and literature. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of The Times Literary Supplement.