Wilbur Smith was a prolific and bestselling South African novelist renowned for his sweeping adventure stories set against the backdrop of Africa’s dramatic landscapes and turbulent history. Born in 1…
Terry Cloutier is the bestselling author of the Wolf of Corwick Castle series, The First Emperor series, and The Past Lives Chronicles. The tenth book in the Wolf of Corwick series, titled The Wolf at…
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Ox…
Fiona Valpy spent seven years living in France, having moved there from the UK in 2007. She and her family renovated an old, rambling farmhouse in the Bordeaux winelands, during which time she develop…
I was born in 1950 in Lancashire and attended a boy’s grammar school. After qualifying as an English and Drama teacher in 1972, I worked in the North East of England for the next 35 years. During that…
Jean Grainger was born in Cork, Ireland. She has been a tour guide of her beloved home country, a teacher, a university lecturer and a playwright. She began writing fiction at the suggestion of her cl…
Sara was born on the NSW Central Coast. Her childhood was spent with her parents, mainly travelling up and down the East Coast of Australia, fishing, shell collecting and doing some of her education b…
Michael Beashel is an International Best Selling Australian Historical Fiction Writer Sydney born to Irish forebears who immigrated to New South Wales in the 1860s and settled in Millers Point. He is …
Hello! I’ve always been fascinated by history and would love to travel back and witness past events – the mundane as well as the momentous. But seeing I don’t have a time machine, the next best thing …
