Claire Patel-Campbell has always written. As soon as she knew how to use a pen to form letters, she was making up stories, all no doubt long since lost to house moves and clear outs and time – but there it began. There were, at one time, notebooks upon notebooks full of her early scribbles,Read more about Claire Patel-Campbell[…]
Dawn loves sewing and designing creatures from plush materials. This love of creating creatures turned to socks four years ago when she discovered they were the perfect medium for sewing creatures. This love of socks led to the birth of Treacher Creatures and an Etsy shop. She designs creatures from re-cycled wool sweaters and fleece: she started crochetingRead more about Dawn Treacher[…]
Five years ago, Maria was trapped within an unhappy toxic marriage. Then her fortieth birthday happened and she wrote herself a ‘living bucket list.’ Top of it was to escape her relationship and to find herself again, ticking off items from her list as she went. So when she isn’t jumping out of aeroplanes or fallingRead more about Maria Stephenson[…]
Some of my fondest memories involve books; as a child sitting with my mum reading, studying English at university and working in bookshops. Filling the shelves with other people’s work, I often wondered how it would feel to finally write the novel which I had been writing in my head for so long. I enjoyRead more about Gillian Byrom-Smith[…]
Daniel Richardson was born in April 1941 in Chicago, and grew up in Carmel, California during a time in which there seemed to be great optimism about the future in general and the future of the U.S.A. in particular. He studied mathematical logic at Bristol, and is currently working as a mathematical consultant. He alsoRead more about Daniel Richardson[…]
Lance is retired and lives near Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire – he regularly visits his partner in York, a city that he loves because of it variety and lively nature. He spent most of his life in the RAF, serving in the Indian Ocean and NATO in Europe, then left to run a charityRead more about Lance Clark[…]
Alan Smith’s first novel was published just before his fiftieth birthday. ‘ I was one of those people who always intended to write a novel but went to the pub instead. It finally dawned on me that being a writer might entail actually doing some writing and so I resolved to write a page aRead more about Alan Smith[…]
John Wheatcroft has spent most of his working life as a journalist on newspapers in Lancashire and Yorkshire, with a few forays into teaching in adult education. His first novel, Here in the Cull Valley, appeared originally via Kindle. Although reviews were good, readers could not agree about his view of the north of England.Read more about John Wheatcroft[…]
Oz Hardwick has always heard voices. His grandfather’s spirited recitations of Burns and the Lake Poets provided his introduction to poetry, but a darker chorus also informed his linguistic growth. He has clear childhood memories of cowering under his bed covers, eyes screwed tight, as disembodied voices spoke to him. As time went on, heRead more about Oz Hardwick[…]
Some years ago, Rita Jerram read her grandmother Edith’s journals and began to imagine herself following in Edith’s footsteps. Rita is herself now a mother and grandmother, and no stranger to an adventurous lifestyle, having lived in Fiji and Australia. Rita was born in Derbyshire where her family was subject to the vicissitudes of prewar life:Read more about Rita Jerram[…]
