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  • Peternelle van Arsdale

    Peternelle van Arsdale

    Peternelle van Arsdale and was an executive editor for HarperCollins, Anchor/Doubleday, Hyperion, and Putnam. Over the course of her career she edited multiple New York Times bestsellers and award-winners, and also conceived, compiled, and edited Kurt Vonnegut's posthumously published collecti...

  • Philip Ardagh

    Philip Ardagh

    Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning author Philip Ardagh is the author of The Grunts. He is probably best known for his Grubtown Tales, but he is author of over 100 books. He is a 'regular irregular' reviewer of children's books for The Guardian, and is currently developing a series for television....

  • Philip Caveney

    Philip Caveney

    Philip Caveney was born in 1951 in North Wales but moved home frequently while he was growing up as a result of his father being stationed at various RAF bases around the country. When his parents were stationed at a base in Malaya, Philip was enrolled at The Kings School, a boarding sc...

  • Philip Kerr

    Philip Kerr

    Phillip Kerr was born and educated in Edinburgh and now lives in Wimbledon, London, with his journalist wife and three young children. Kerr initially trained at University of Birmingham as a lawyer. Realising law wasn't for him, he pursued a career in advertising before finally becoming...

  • Philip Womack

    Philip Womack

    Philip Womack was educated at Lancing and Oriel College, Oxford, and is a Contributing Editor at the Literary Review, and writes for the Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian, among other papers. He is also a Fellow at First Story, currently being Writer in Residence at St Augustine's in Kilburn....

  • Philippa Gregory

    Philippa Gregory

    Philippa Gregory studied at Sussex university, and is a PhD and Alumna of the Year 2009 of Edinburgh university. She was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl which was made into a tv drama, and...

  • Philippa Pearce

    Philippa Pearce

    Philippa Pearce was the youngest of four children of a flour-miller. The family lived in the Mill House on the upper reaches of the River Cam. 'Although there wasn't much cash we had lots of space,' remembers Philippa, 'We had a canoe, we swam, we fished with net and with rod, we skated on flo...

  • Philippe Dupasquier

    Philippe Dupasquier

    was born in Switzerland and studied art in France. His French background and training have influenced his own art form, the high quality comic strip, which is very popular on the Continent and formed the bulk of his reading as a child.