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Emma Bamford is an East Midlands-based author and journalist who has worked at The Independent and Daily Express and most recently as News Editor of the i newspaper.

She had a fairly normal life to begin with, growing up with her younger brother and sister under the watchful eyes of her parents in Lincoln and Nottingham. After studying English Literature at Southampton University and Newspaper Journalism at UCLan, she started work as a cub reporter for the Bicester Review and then the Derby Evening Telegraph, cutting her journalistic teeth interviewing organisers of local fetes and grilling parish council members. Fleet Street beckoned and highlights of her career as a reporter and news editor include asking F1 driver Jenson Button what his Emma Bamford is an East Midlands-based author and journalist who has worked at The Independent and Daily Express and most recently as News Editor of the i newspaper.

She had a fairly normal life to begin with, growing up with her younger brother and sister under the watchful eyes of her parents in Lincoln and Nottingham. After studying English Literature at Southampton University and Newspaper Journalism at UCLan, she started work as a cub reporter for the Bicester Review and then the Derby Evening Telegraph, cutting her journalistic teeth interviewing organisers of local fetes and grilling parish council members. Fleet Street beckoned and highlights of her career as a reporter and news editor include asking F1 driver Jenson Button what his favourite toasted sandwich filling was, quizzing the incumbent Home Secretary on his preferred kind of cheese (spot a pattern?) and peeing in Bruce Forsyth’s downstairs loo. There was some serious and hard-hitting journalism in there for a fair few years, too.

Then, in her early 30s and bored with this ‘fairly normal life’ she’d created for herself, Emma took a career break and, despite protestations from friends and family, answered an advert on the internet for ‘crew wanted’ and flew to Borneo to live on a boat with a man she had never met and his cat. She found herself hunting for elephants in the jungle, visiting deserted islands and running from pirates. Finally she ended up among billionaires, working as a stewardess on a superyacht in Italy. Her adventures form the basis of her first book, Casting Off, which is being published by Bloomsbury on July 3.

Emma now works part-time as a freelance to give herself space to write and make the jump from memoir to novels. Her ambition is to make book writing her full-time career. Tropical settings feature high in her inspiration and as her books’ settings, although she lives about as far away from the sea as it is possible, in landlocked rural Derbyshire. And, while she may make self-deprecating jokes constantly, she really is serious about figuring out what is important in life and finding the freedom to be who you want to be. ...more

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Emma Bamford Persevere. I sent two chapters of Casting Off to an agent and was rejected - the agent even said I'd never get a publisher interested. I sent the same…morePersevere. I sent two chapters of Casting Off to an agent and was rejected - the agent even said I'd never get a publisher interested. I sent the same material to a publisher at the same time and she liked it and asked me to send everything I had written. But then she rejected me as well! Luckily she kindly said she'd re-read if I re-wrote, which I did, and she then accepted Casting Off.
I could have easily given up at either of those two points, but I kept working on it and I got there in the end. Talents and luck are part of it, but hard work and perseverance also pay off.(less)

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Emma Bamford A domestic thriller set on a tropical island. A newly-wed couple leave behind their busy lives in London and buy a yacht in Asia, looking to travel an…moreA domestic thriller set on a tropical island. A newly-wed couple leave behind their busy lives in London and buy a yacht in Asia, looking to travel and explore. There they hear of a paradise island only accessible by private yacht. They go there and find an alternative community of sailors, living a back-to-basics lifestyle in a beautiful, unspoilt place. But is life there as idyllic as it seems?(less)

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Average rating: 3.41 · 4,352 ratings · 800 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Deep Water 3.40 avg rating — 3,704 ratings — published 2022 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Eye of the Beholder 3.39 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 2024 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untie the Lines: Setting Sail and Breaking Free 3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirtysomething: A One-Act Play it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But she was also too quick to see the good in people, and this social naivete”
― Emma Bamford, Deep Water

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“The sun was beginning to set and the water was sparkling in the low light as the onshore breeze that had built up through the heat of the day rippled across the reflective surface, breaking it into a million diamonds of yellow-white light.”
― Emma Bamford, Casting off: How a City Girl Found Happiness on the High Seas

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