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Profiles: General Fiction |
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Ian McEwan - Author, General Fiction |
| Ian McEwan
was born on 21st June 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England.
His father was an arm officer and hence Ian spent much
of his childhood in the Far East, Germany, and North Africa,
wherever his father was posted. He returned to England
to take a degree in English at Sussex University and then
became the first student on a MA Creative Writing course
established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm
Bradbury and Angus Wilson. more.. |
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Victoria Hislop - Author, General Fiction
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| Victoria Hislop
was born in Kent and grew up in Tonbridge. She read English
at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and later worked in book
publishing and then public relations. When she became
a mother in 1990, it was the catalyst for a change of
career and she began working as a freelance journalist,
specialising in features on parenting and education. .
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David Mitchell - Author, General Fiction
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| David Mitchell
was born in Southport in 1969, and grew up in Malvern,
Worcestershire. He gained a degree in English and American
Literature at the University of Kent, followed by a MA
in Comparative Literature. He lived in Sicily for a year
before moving to Hiroshima, Japan, where for eight years
he taught English to technical students, before returning
to England. more.. |
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Kate Atkinson - Author, General Fiction |
| Kate Atkinson
was born in York in 1951 and studied English Literature
at Dundee University. After graduating in 1974, Kate researched
a postgraduate doctorate on American Literature and later
taught at Dundee. She began writing short stories in 1981,
which extended to writing for women’s magazines after
winning the 1986 Woman’s Own short story competition.
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Profiles: Crime & Thrillers |
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Ian Rankin - Author, Crime & Thrillers |
| Ian Rankin
was born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, graduated from
the University of Edinburgh, and then spent the next three
years writing novels under the guise of working towards
a PhD in Scottish Literature. At least he was producing
it if not studying it! His first Rebus novel, ‘Knots &
Crosses’ was published in 1987, and since then the Rebus
books have become so popular that they have been translated
into 22 languages and are bestsellers across the globe.
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Mark Billingham - Author, Crime & Thrillers |
| Mark Billingham
was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for
some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer
and stand-up comedian his first crime novel, “Sleepyhead”
was published in 2001. This was the start of a series
of novels featuring Tom Thorne, a London-based detective,
and was an instant bestseller in the UK. more.. |
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Simon Kernick - Author, Crime & Thrillers |
| Simon Kernick
was born in 1966 in Slough, England. After leaving school
in the mid 1980s he worked in a variety of jobs and spent
several years living and travelling in Canada and the
USA before returning to England via Australia and the
Far East to complete his studies. He graduated from Brighton
Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in Humanities and eventually
found work in London as a computer software salesman,
in which profession he stayed for the rest of the ‘90s
despite feeling there was more to life. more.. |
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