Nikki Gemmell is the author of four novels, including the international best-seller ‘The Bride Stripped Bare’. She lives in London with her family.

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Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we ...

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Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books. His fourth book, ‘The Owl Service’ ...

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, ...

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An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through love, loss and unwavering hope. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation.

Holland’s most famous author, Marcel Möring, was born in 1957 in Enschede, and he now lives in Rotterdam. He decided to become a writer at the age of thirteen. After studying Dutch literature for two ...

A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again… In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a ...

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