Authors Families
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CJ Haslam
C. J. (Chris) Haslam is the award-winning Chief Travel Writer at The Sunday Times, specialising in extreme adventure. He appears regularly on the BBC and has written three black comedy thrillers for adults. One of them, Twelve Step Fandango, was shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe award...
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Richard Harland
Richard Harland was born in the north of England in the middle of the coldest winter ever recorded. He moved to Australia on a university scholarship, fell in love with it and stayed. Richard loves writing fantasy and science fiction for adults and children, and has won five Aurealis awards fo...
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Richard Monte
Richard Monte was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey and went to school in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. He studied History at the University of London, specialising in Eastern Europe. His first job was in journalism but, realising he wanted to be an author, he left to take up...
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CJ Harper
C.J. Harper is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing for Young People and a former Waterstone's children's bookseller. THE DISAPPEARED is her first novel.
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Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan spent 15 years as a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 1997 he began publishing mystery novels for adults. His popular Tres Nevarre series has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Rick was inspir...
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Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson is a bestselling crime novelist whose work includes The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The First Victim and Parallel Lies. In 1991, he was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. Ridley also plays bass guita...
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Rilla Alexander
Rilla Alexander has been making books since she was two. She would tell the story to her mother who'd type it onto her pictures and bind them into books complete with a biography. But amongst a constant flurry of creative projects, Rilla started to leave a trail of unfinished ideas behind her....
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Chelsey Flood
Chelsey Flood is 28 and graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA last year. She is a member of the Lucky 13 writers group, and has already won several prizes and awards for her writing. This is her debut novel, and she is currently working on a second book. Chelsey blogs at thelucky13s.blogs...