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Peter James (born 22 August 1948 in Brighton) is a British crime writer best known for the Roy Grace novels, a police series set in Brighton that began with “Dead Simple” in 2005 and has been adapted by ITV as “Grace”, starring John Simm. His official site credits him with 21 Sunday Times number ones … Read more
Nicholas Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer, born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 31 December 1965. He writes romantic fiction, including “The Notebook”, “Message in a Bottle” and “A Walk to Remember”, and eleven of his novels have been made into feature films. His family moved several times before settling in Fair Oaks, … Read more
Neil Gaiman is an English author of novels, short fiction, comics and screenplays, born in Portchester, Hampshire, in 1960. His best-known works include the comic series “The Sandman” and the novels “American Gods”, “Coraline”, “The Graveyard Book” and “Good Omens”, the last written with Terry Pratchett. Gaiman worked as a journalist in the early 1980s, … Read more
Mick Herron (born 11 July 1963 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British novelist best known for the Slough House spy thrillers, about a group of disgraced MI5 officers, which began with “Slow Horses” in 2010 and have been adapted for Apple TV+ with Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He won the Crime Writers’ Association … Read more
Sir Michael Morpurgo (born 5 October 1943) is an English author, poet and playwright best known for children’s novels such as “War Horse”, “Private Peaceful” and “Kensuke’s Kingdom”. He was the third Children’s Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of the reading charity BookTrust. He was born Michael Bridge in St Albans, the … Read more
Lisa Jewell is an English novelist, born in London in 1968, who began with romantic comedies such as “Ralph’s Party” and later moved into psychological thrillers including “Then She Was Gone”, “The Family Upstairs” and “None of This Is True”. Jewell was born in the West End of London on 19 July 1968 and raised … Read more
Liane Moriarty is an Australian novelist, born in Sydney in November 1966. Her books include “The Husband’s Secret”, “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers”, and four of her novels have been adapted for television. The eldest of six children, she studied at the University of Technology Sydney and began her career as an advertising … Read more
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of the American writer Daniel Handler and the narrator of his thirteen-book children’s series “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, published between 1999 and 2006. Books under the Snicket name have sold more than 65 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. Handler was born in San … Read more
Leigh Bardugo is an American fantasy author, born in Jerusalem in 1975 and raised in Los Angeles. She is best known for the Grishaverse novels, which began with “Shadow and Bone” in 2012, and for the Alex Stern books for adults, which opened with “Ninth House” in 2019 and concluded with “Dead Beat” in 2026. … Read more
Kate Atkinson is an English novelist, born in York on 20 December 1951, who writes literary and historical fiction alongside the Jackson Brodie detective novels. Her debut, “Behind the Scenes at the Museum”, won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1995, and both “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins” won the … Read more
