Authors of reviewed books
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M.L.Stedman
M.L.Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and now lives in London. “The light between oceans” is her first novel.
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Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith’s parents were jazz musicians but as a student he realised that his own talent was for writing. He gave up sociology and travelled in Europe before taking a job as a tabloid reporter. In New York he edited a men’s magazine before publ …
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Mary Moody
Born in 1950, Mary Moody is part of a generation of women who had it all. At 50, her life was full with a fulfilling career, a husband, children and grandchildren. But the one thing missing was time for herself, so for six months she left her work, fam …
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Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham was born in Australia in November 1960, and spent his early years growing up in country towns. In 1979 he became a cadet journalist with the Sydney Sun. For the next fourteen years he worked for newspapers in Australia, Britain and Am …
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Nigel Packer
The shoe is now on the other foot for this Englishman, who for many years worked as a BBC music critic. He laughingly describes feeling ‘terrified’ at the thought of having his work scrutinised by critics, in a recent interview about his debut novel ‘T …
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Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan is an author, journalist and screen writer who regularly contributes to GQ magazine and the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK where he was Deputy Travel Editor for seven years. Ryan is currently working on his next novel and a variety of te …
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Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Vanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. Vanessa Diffenbaugh is the founder of the …