by Lucy Neill | Dec 20, 2016 | Meet the Author
20 December 2016 Alan Bennett is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him...
by Lucy Neill | Nov 22, 2016 | Meet the Author
22 November 2016 Dame Hilary Mantel is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s...
by Lucy Neill | Oct 6, 2016 | Meet the Author
6 October 2016 Jilly Cooper OBE began her career as a journalist. She has written novels, children’s books and non-fiction, but is possibly best known for The Rutshire Chronicles, her series of bestsellers that includes Riders, Rivals and Polo, each of which...
by Lucy Neill | Aug 25, 2016 | Meet the Author
Photo credit: David Needleman 25 August 2016 Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. Around 2009 she began to write romantic comedy fiction under the name Amy Silver, writing four novels including Confessions of a...
by Lucy Neill | Aug 9, 2016 | Meet the Author
9 August 2016 Rose Tremain was one of only five women writers to be included in Granta’s original list of 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. Her novels and short stories include Restoration, Sacred Country, Music & Silence and The Road Home. Her works...
by Lucy Neill | May 31, 2016 | Meet the Author
31 May 2016 Lee Child is quite simply Suffolk Community Libraries’ favourite writer. Every year his books top the list for the most issues. To those who are not familiar with his work he is a British thriller writer known for the Jack Reacher book series. This follows...