Clint was born in Beverley, Yorkshire and returned there in the mid-1990s after a spell in London as a chemistry teacher. Five years ago he went part time and began a career in FE. Through his life he’s enthused, and bored, friends and family, wittering on about geology and dragging people fossil hunting. His enthusiasmRead more about Clint Wastling[…]
Maxine lives in the South Wales Valleys with her family For most of her working life, Maxine worked with young people teaching English and Drama in schools, training centres, for community charities, and volunteering in Sri Lanka. She has spent many years living in Devon and Cornwall after which she travelled around Europe filling herRead more about Maxine Ridge[…]
Don was born in Baker Street, in the Burton Stone Lane area of York in 1929. Determined to waste no time at all, and only nine and a half months into life’s journey, Don was already enjoying a degree of acclaim in York by winning first prize and a guinea reward in the Bonnie Baby competition heldRead more about Don Walls[…]
WINNER Sabotage Best Spoken Word Performer 2014 Steve Nash is a stateless pirate. Well, child of the army, which amounts to pretty much the same thing. Couple that with a stint as the founding member, lead singer and sometimes-guitarist for hard rock band Herbal T and Pornography, and what you’ve got is a character shaped by songsRead more about Steve Nash[…]
Donna Marie was born in Rome; alas, not the Rome of the orphan twins but Rome, New York. She spent most of her early years in Texas before moving to Connecticut to complete her High School education, and her graduate and post graduate degrees in education and psychology. After teaching elementary and middle school childrenRead more about Donna Marie Merritt[…]
Andrew is a Southerner who spent most of his first twenty years in the London Overspill fringes of working-class Essex, talking estuary English and breathing in cement dust. But his father was a vicar, and his brothers went to a minor public school – so there was a certain poshness to be breathed in too. Read more about Andrew Brown[…]
Andrea is a Londoner, born and bred, which means that she enjoys the anonymity of big cities, and avoids making eye contact on public transport. She writes under the pen name A.L. Michael. Andrea decided to become a writer at age eleven, after the whole ‘secret agent thing’ fell through. She gained both a BARead more about Andrea Michael[…]
Jo Summers was made in Australia, but her mother, Pauline Kirk, just managed to get back to the UK before Jo was born. Having been whisked away to Yorkshire at 8, Jo grew up in the chilly outskirts of Leeds. She started working her way back down south at the age of 19, attending theRead more about Jo Summers[…]
Born in Birmingham, Pauline moved to York, having lived in Leeds, Reading, Benfleet (Essex), and Melbourne (Australia). She now lives in a village between York and Selby. She studied at the University of Nottingham, Sheffield University (managing to get married in the holidays) and Monash University in Melbourne where she also taught at the MethodistsRead more about Pauline Kirk[…]
PJ Quinn is the pen name of mother and daughter team Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers. Jo challenged her mother to write a crime novel and, somehow, ended up writing it with her. The result is a series of detective novels featuring DI Ambrose and Chalk Heath, set in the late 1950s, a period of great change that seems likeRead more about PJ Quinn[…]
