Authors
Gadda, Carlo Emilio
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973) was born in Milan, where he spent a "tormented childhood and even more miserable adolescence." He earned a degree in engineering, volunteered to fight in World War I, and was taken prisoner by the Germans. After the war, he began to write while working as an engineer in countries as far afield as Argentina. Acquainted with Grief, Gadda's first novel, set in an imaginary South American country, appeared in 1938. .....
Gaiman, Neil
Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children's books, and graphic novels. Among his works are the children's books Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; the Sandman graphic novels series; and the fantasy novels Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors.
Gallagher, Brian
Brian Gallagher was born in Dublin. He is a full-time writer whose plays and short stories have been produced in Ireland, Britain and Canada. He has written extensively for radio and television and is one of the scriptwriters on RTE's long-running drama Fair City.
He collaborated with composer Shaun Purcell on the musical, Larkin, for which he wrote the book and lyrics, and on Winds of Change for RTE's Lyric FM. .....
Galt, Hugh
Hugh Galt was born in West Scotland and educated in Edinburgh. He went to London to train as a journalist and worked for a short time in Fleet Street before returning to Edinburgh where he worked as a journalist for a number of years.
Intending to go and live in Mexico he somehow ended up in Ireland! He worked in the West of Ireland for several years - as a disc jockey, then in fishing. Hugh and a friend salvaged a sunken trawler which they rebuilt completely. .....
Galvin, Gerry
Gerry Galvin is an award-winning chef with a fine reputation earned in the kitchens of gourmet restaurants in London, South Africa, Dublin and Cork. He now lives and cooks in Drimcong House in Moycullen, County Galway, where he also runs highly successful cookery courses.
Galvin, Tom
TOM GALVIN went to Poland in 1994 to live and teach in a Polish state school for five years. He later worked as a journalist for The Warsaw Voice and Radio Polonia in Warsaw. He now works for the Evening Herald, on the Polski Herald supplement and as books editor. He has written two books for the tourist market The Little Book of Dublin and That's Cork. He lives in Wicklow with his Polish wife, Asia.
Gamble, Kim
Kim Gamble is one of Australia's leading illustrators for children.
Gambrell, Jamey
Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.
Garbutt, Nick
Nick Garbutt is an award-winning wildlife photographer and natural history writer and illustrator. After graduating with an Honours degree in zoology from the University of Nottingham, he forged a career primarily as a wildlife photographer and author, combining this with leading tours, lecturing and illustration. He has written numerous natural history books including the acclaimed Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide, 100 Animals to See Before They Die and the Bradt Travel Guide Madagascar Wildlife. .....
Gardner, Scot
Scot wasn't born reading and writing; in fact he left school in year eleven to undertake an apprenticeship in gardening with the local council. His first fiction for young readers, One Dead Seagull, was published after he attended a writing conference with John Marsden. His many books since include Burning Eddy, short-listed for both the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary awards. Scot lives with his wife and three children, two dogs and some chooks in the bush in Eastern Victoria. .....
Garland, Sarah
Sarah Garland is a much-loved author/illustrator who has published more than 40 books. The daughter of a publisher and illustrator, she trained as a typographer at the London College of Printing. She has written many books for children, and also books for adults on herbs and their uses. During her childhood in the New Forest and in recent years she has concentrated on growing a very wide variety of herbs to use in her kitchen, and to treat minor ailments. .....
Garnett, Andy
Andy Garnett is an engineer, a philanthropist and an optimist. He spent most of his professional life working in advanced tech industry and has lived in North America and Japan. His book Steel Wheels, a tribute to the world of railways, was published in 2005.
Garrett, Fergus
Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, first worked at the Beth Chatto Gardens as a student, over twenty years ago, and has remained a close friend of Beth's ever since.
Gaul, J.P.
J.P.GAUL has long had a fascination with American clothing styles of the 1950s and 1960s, a passion nurtured whilst working at J.Simons' legendary clothes shop in central London. A jazz and architecture fan, he is also a regular blogger on all matters sartorial. This is his first book. He lives in North London.
Gautier, Theophile
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), whose father was a minor government functionary, was born in southwestern France, but when he was three his family moved to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. The young Gautier wanted to make his name as a painter until, at eighteen, he met Victor Hugo and decided to become a writer. Instead; within a year he had published his first collection of poetry. .....
Gavin, Jamila
JAMILA GAVIN was born in 1941 in the foothills of the Himalayas. Her father was Indian and her mother English. She came to live in England when she was twelve years old. Her first book, The Magic Orange Tree, was published in 1979 and has been followed by a number of prize-winning publications. Coram Boy won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 2000 and The Wheel of Surya was the runner up for the 1993 Guardian Newspaper Children's Fiction Award.
Geldard, Ed
ED GELDARD is a professional landscape photographer. A former freelancer for the Northern Echo Group, he is a keen walker and contributes to many countryside publications. In 1991 he teamed up with Alfred Wainwright to produce Wainwright in the Limestone Dales, which was highly succesful. This was followed in 1992 by Wainwright’s Tour in the Lake District, winner of the Tullie House prize in the Lakeland Book of the Year Award, and Travels through the Lakes. .....
Genet, Jean
Jean Genet (1910-1986) was born in Paris. Abandoned by his mother at seven months, he was raised in state institutions and charged with his first crime when he was ten. After spending many of his teenage years in a reformatory, Genet enrolled in the Foreign Legion, though he later deserted, turning to a life of thieving and pimping that resulted in repeated jail terms and, eventually, a sentence of life imprisonment. .....
Geras, Adèle
Adèle Geras was born in Jerusalem in 1944. She has lived in Manchester for 32 years and is married with two daughters and a granddaughter. Since 1976 she has published more than 80 books for children, including Troy, which was shortlisted for many prizes. She has the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature in the USA for Golden Windows.
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Gerrish, Helena
Helena Gerrish has immersed herself in a fruitful search for the story of her enigmatic predecessor at High Glanau and now gives talks, writes articles and throws open her beautifully restored garden to hundreds of visitors during the summer.
Gerritsen, Henk
Distinguished garden designer Henk Gerritsen was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He trained as an artist and made his living as a painter before turning to garden design. He now writes regularly for gardening magazines in Holland, Germany and the US, and has had several books published. His best-known garden design project in the UK is the reconstruction of the Waltham Place gardens in Berkshire. .....
Gerstein, Mordicai
Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of more than thirty books for young readers, among them picture books, biblical retellings, alphabets, and works of fiction.
He was awarded the 2004 Caldecott Medal for The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, called 'a tour de force' by the San Francisco Chronicle, a 'milestone' by the Boston Globe, and a 'breathtaking homage to extraordinary buildings and a remarkable man' by Kirkus Reviews. .....
Gibbs, Jon
Jon Gibbs was Take-a-View Landscape Photographer of the Year 2007 and Landscape Winner at the 2007 Skye Photography Festival. He is based in Norfolk, where he runs landscape photography workshops.
Gibson, Trish
Trish Gibson is a garden journalist with a regular gardening column. She is a recorder for the Cornwall Gardens Trust and editor of their journal. Her own garden is open under the National Gardens Scheme.
Giddins, Gary
Gary Giddins was a music critic for The Village Voice, where his column Weather Bird ran for thirty years. He has contributed articles about music, mostly jazz, in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Esquire, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has written ten books, including Visions of Jazz, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award in 1998, and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams. .....
Gille, Elisabeth
Élisabeth Gille (1937-1996) was born in Paris to the banker Michel Epstein and the novelist Irène Némirovsky. She spent most of her career as an editor and translator before her first book, Le Mirador, appeared and was immediately acclaimed as a major work.
Gillham, Bill
Bill Gillham is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology at Strathclyde University.
Gillham, John
John Gillham has been a full-time writer, illustrator and photographer since 1989, after working as an assistant quantity surveyor and in the aerospace industry. Born in Bournemouth in 1947, John maintains strong links to Wales through his mother's family, a family that included the renowned Welsh tenor, Ivor Emmanuel. These days the author lives with his wife Nicola in Hoddlesden, a village in the West Pennine Moors. .....
Gilligan, Ann Louise
ANN LOUISE GILLIGAN, PhD was appointed to the staff of St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, in 1976, and has worked in the area of teacher education at undergraduate and post-graduate level for the past thirty years. She established and directed its Educational Disadvantage Centre, and has lectured and published on the philosophy of the imagination, philosophies of difference and educational equality. .....
Gilligan, Robbie
Robbie Gilligan is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy and also is Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy, and Associate Director of the Children's Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin. He has written academic books on the topics of Irish Child Care Services and Child Development. This is his first book with O'Brien Press.
Ginzburg, Carlo
One of Europe's most celebrated historians, Carlo Ginzburg is best known for his ground-breaking microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic. Other works include The Night Battles, on European witch persecutions, and The Judge and the Historian. He has been instrumental in persuading the Vatican to open the Inquisition Archives to researchers.
Giovannini-Torelli, Guido
Guido Giovannini-Torelli graduated from the London Academy with a degree in English History, Literature and Music. He retired from the Sapienza - Università di Roma, where he was Professor of Jewellery Culture. Professor Giovannini-Torelli is a member of the American Society of Jewelry Historians and of the Gemological Institute of America.
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Girouard, Mark
Mark Girouard was born in 1931. He is a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, leading architectural historian, and the biographer of James Stirling. He worked for Country Life magazine firstly as its Architectural Writer, and then as its Architectural Editor until 1967. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art from 1975 to 1976, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1987. .....
Glaskin, Max
Max Glaskin is an award-winning freelance science, engineering, and technology journalist with a special interest in cycling. He has contributed to a vast range of publications from MIT's Technology Review, Biophotonics International, The Engineer and New Scientist, through to Reader's Digest, Discovery Channel Magazine and every serious national UK newspaper. Max has cycled over the Greater Himalaya, co-founded the UK's national mountain bike organisation, performed for the Queen with the Bicycle Ballet and is one of the first 20 inductees to the Mountain Biking UK Hall of Fame. .....
Glassco, John
John Glassco (1909-1981), born in Montreal, attended McGill University without graduating, visited Paris as a sixteen-year-old and two years later, in 1928, accompanied by his friend Graeme Taylor. It was on this more lengthy and eventful stay, in the city he loved, that he based his Memoirs of Montparnasse (1970), which was published, and presented by Glassco, as an authentic memoir though it was later discovered to be in many respects a work of fiction. .....
Gleeson, Libby
Libby Gleeson AO is a popular and highly acclaimed writer who has published over twenty books for children and teenagers, including Eleanor, Elizabeth, I Am Susannah, Dodger, Love Me, Love Me Not and the Hannah series.She has been shortlisted for the CBCA Awards eight times and won the Award for Fiction for Younger Yeaders in 1997 with Hannah and the Tomorrow Room. The Great Bear (with Armin Greder) won the Bologna Ragazzi in 2000, the first time an Australian title has won this prestigious award. .....
Gliori, Debi
Debi Gliori studied illustration and design at Edinburgh College of Art. Among her many successful picture books is the award-winning Mr Bear series. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Glorieux-Desouche, Isabelle
Isabelle Glorieux-Desouche studied History of Art at the Sorbonne, with a formation in ethnology, followed by two years living in Guinea. She has worked as a museum guide specialising in world art for more than 15 years, first at the Louvre, then at Musee Dapper and now at Musee quai Branly. She is the author of Musée du quai Branly, le grand voyage (Monexpo éditions, 2008) as well as a number of publications for the Museum. .....
Glover, Winifred
Winifred Glover is curator of Ethnography at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. She has a particular interest in the events of the Armada, and has created a marvellous permanent exhibition of finds from the Armada wrecks. The Armada collection at the Ulster Museum is the biggest collection outside Spain.
Gogarty, Brian
Brian Gogarty lives in Co. Derry. He has worked as the manager for a credit union. The books in the Shamrock Sean series are his first.
Gogol, Nikolai
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist. The novels Taras Bulba and Dead Souls, the play The Inspector-General, and the short stories "The Diary of a Madman," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat" are among his best-known works.
Gold Levi, Vicki
Vicki Gold Levi is a historical picture editor, photography curator, and author.
Goldman, Francisco
Francisco Goldman is the author of two novels, The Long Night of White Chickens and The Ordinary Seaman. He divides his time between Mexico City and New York City.
Gomersall, Chris
CHRIS GOMERSALL has worked as a full-time, self-employed wildlife photographer since 1984, initially as staff photographer for the RSPB. The first British photographer to win the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2007), he is a Nikon UK training partner and runs tours and workshops throughout the year. He is the author of Photographing Wild Birds (David & Charles 2001), and was the principal photographer and picture editor on Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey's Birds Britannica (Chatto 2005). .....
Gomi, Taro
Taro Gomi is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 300 titles in his native Japan.
Goodfellow, Damian
Damian Goodfellow is an artist and writer and lives in Galway.
Goodhart, Pippa
Pippa Goodhart was a children's bookseller for 10 years and has now become a full time author with over 40 books published. She lives in Leicester with her husband and children.
Goodier, Steve
Steve Goodier is a freelance outdoor writer who specialises in the Lake District, Yorkshire and Scotland. He has walked and climbed all over the world and produces regular walking routes for several nationwide outdoor magazines on a monthly basis. Born in 1962 and involved in the outdoor world for the last twenty five years he is a keen fellwalker and adventurist whose next big project is a climb Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. .....
Goodman, John
John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English, notably work by Denis Diderot, Hubert Damisch, and Georges Didi-Huberman. Goodman has published widely on the visual culture of eighteenth-century Europe and is currently preparing a synthetic study of neoclassicism for Thames and Hudson's World of Art series.
Goodman, Paul
Paul Goodman (1911-1972) was an American social critic, psychologist, poet, novelist, and anarchist who was a frequent contributor to such journals as Politics, Partisan Review, The New Republic, Commentary, Dissent, and The New York Review of Books. He published widely in a variety of fields-including city planning, Gestalt therapy, educational reform, literary criticism, and politics-before writing Growing Up Absurd, which in 1960 became an enormous bestseller. .....
Gotthelf, Jeremias
Jeremias Gotthelf, the pen name of Albert Bitzius (1797–1854), was a Swiss pastor and the author of novels, novellas, short stories, and nonfiction, who used his writing to communicate his reformist concerns in the field of education and with regard to the plight of the poor. After the success of his first novel, Der Bauernspiegel oder Lebensgeschichte des Jeremias Gotthelf: Von ihm selbst beschrieben (The Peasants’ Mirror; or, The Life History of Jeremias Gotthelf: Described by Himself; 1836) the author adopted the name of the story’s protagonist. .....
Gower, Catherine
Catherine Gower lived and worked in China from 1997 to 1999, teaching English and learning Mandarin and Chinese calligraphy. She is now an editor in the English Language Teaching division of Oxford University Press.
Goytisolo, Juan
Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931 and now lives in Marrakesh. He is the author of many novels, including Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, and The Garden of Secrets, as well as two volumes of autobiography.
Grady, Monica
Monica Grady is a professor of planetary and space science at the Open University in the UK, and one of the world’s leading meteorite experts. In addition to studying the finer details of these rocks from space that fall to Earth, she is also interested in the broader implications of her findings, and uses her research to learn more about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
Grafton, Anthony
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Graham, A. C.
Angus Charles Graham (1919-1991) was born in Penarth, Wales. He studied theology at Oxford University and served as an interpreter in Malaya and Thailand while in the Royal Air Force. In 1946 he enrolled in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he remained throughout his career. An important Sinologist, Graham is credited with introducing into English several little- or poorly-known works of Chinese classical literature and philosophy, and is celebrated for his insightful analysis of these texts. .....
Granström, Brita
Brita Granström grew up on a Swedish farm and has an MFA in Fine Art from Konstfack, Stockholm. She and Mick Manning live in the Scottish Borders have four sons. Their first book together, The World is Full of Babies won the Smarties Silver Award in 1996 and their second book, What's Under the Bed? took the TES Junior Information Book Award in 1997. Yum Yum and How Did I Begin? were 2 of the 6 children's books shortlisted for the Rhone Poulene Prize in 1998. .....
Grant, Neil
Neil Grant was born in Scotland in the year of the Fire Horse. He graduated from the International School of Kuala Lumpur in 1985 and spent a large part of his adult life travelling and working in a variety of jobs, including instrument steriliser, forklift driver, banana picker, dishwasher and brickie's labourer. His long involvement with the ocean and the difficult business of struggling from boyhood to manhood (almost there) led him to write about these things.
Gray, Angelica
ANGELICA GRAY is a writer and garden designer with clients in France and London. In 2007 her parents moved to a house in the Medina in Marrakesh where she first came into contact with the gardens of the city. Through her father, the portrait painter Norman Douglas Hutchinson, known for his portraits of the British royal family, she has been able to access important contacts in the city, including Abderrazzak Benchaabane, who restored the planting of the Majorelle Gardens for Yves Saint Laurent, and many other passionate garden owners. .....
Gray, John
John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.
Greaves, Margaret
Margaret Greaves was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and taught English in schools and at St Mary's College of Education, Cheltenham. Margaret died in 1993.
Greaves, Van
A member of The Outdoor Writers’ Guild, Van Greaves has been a regular writer and photographer for Trail and has also contributed to Country Walking, High, and TGO magazines. His articles and photos have appeared in photographic magazines such as Practical Photography, Outdoor Photography and Professional Photographer. Van's publications include Moods of Staffordshire, Discovering the Pennines and the forthcoming Perfect Wye. .....
Greder, Armin
Picture book illustrator Armin Greder was born in Switzerland and migrated to Brisbane, Australia in 1971. Armin has worked as a graphic designer and currently lectures tertiary art students, illustrating picture books in between teaching and other interests. As a child Armin spent a lot of time drawing in the back of his exercise books when he should have been paying attention in class. In books such as The Great Bear and An Ordinary Day his art reflects his European background. .....
Greeman, Richard
Richard Greeman, the translator of four of Victor Serge's novels, has written a doctoral dissertation about Serge along with numerous other studies of his work and life. A collection of Greeman's political essays, Dangerous Shortcuts and Vegetarian Sharks, appeared in 2007.
Greenberg, Jan
Jan Greenberg has taught creative writing and art appreciation classes at schools and colleges in America. She lives in St Louis, Missouri. With Sandra Jordan she is the author of several distinctive books about art, including,Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist, which was named a Sibert Award Honor Book in 2001. To visit Jan's website click
Greenberg, Nicki
Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator with a special interest in sequential art. Her first picture books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old. Since then she has dedicated most of her ink to comics, but has also written and illustrated fiction and non-fiction books for children. She is the creator of the graphic novel 'staged-on-the-page' adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and F. .....
Greenblatt, Stephen
STEPHEN GREENBLATT is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Vermont.
Gregorowski, Christopher
Christopher Gregorowski worked for many years among the Xhosa people in Transkei, South Africa, as an Anglican priest. There he discovered the story of Fly, Eagle, Fly in the biography of Aggrey of Africa, who visited West and Southern Africa in the 1920s from his teaching post in North America. He decided to rewrite the story for his terminally ill daughter, Rosalind. Christopher is Bishop of Table Bay in South Africa.
Gresham, William L.
William Lindsay Gresham (1909-1962) grew up in Brooklyn, where he became fascinated by the sideshow at Coney Island. After serving as a medic for the Loyalist forces during the Spanish civil war, he edited true-crime pulp magazines. In 1947, Nightmare Alley, his best-known work, was adapted into a film starring Tyrone Power.
Grice, Trevor
Trevor Grice is the Director of the Life Education Trust. He has lectured extensively in Australia and the USA. In New Zealand he is in constant demand as a drug counsellor, industry advisor and speaker to high-school students and parent groups.
Griffin, Harry
Harry Griffin was a lifelong rock climber and one of the founding members of the Coniston Tigers climbing club. His career in journalism included a 53-year unbroken series of 'Country Diary' entries for The Guardian from 1951 until his death in 2004.
Grimason, Darryl
'Born to fish and forced to work', Darryl Grimason is a TV reporter and presenter for BBC Northern Ireland. A native of County Armagh, he lives in Dollingstown with his wife Karen and two daughters. He has presented two popular television series about fishing, Coast to Coast and the award-winning Big Six.
Grindley, Sally
Sally Grindley has written over 80 children's picture books and a number of children's novels. She has been shortlisted four times for the Smarties Prize. Spilled Water was the winner of the 2004 Smarties Gold Award, the 2005 Lincolnshire Young People's Award and the 2007 West Sussex Book Award.
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Grogan, Emmett
Emmett Grogan (c.1943-1978) was called a "Superman of the Underground" by The Times (London), and was the founder of the Diggers. On April 6, 1978, the thirty-five-year-old Grogan was found dead on a subway car in New York City, possibly of a drug overdose.
Grogan, Jerry
JERRY GROGAN comes from Caherciveen, County Kerry, and is a primary-school teacher in Donaghmede, Dublin. He is the National PRO for Cumann na mBunscol, and a frequent contributor to, and editor of, GAA publications. He is a keen amateur sports photographer.
Groves, Linden
Linden Groves fell in love with gardens after working with Gillian Mawrey on her magazine Historic Gardens Review. Ten years later, she now has a Masters degree in Garden History and is still part of the Review’s editorial team. Linden is the author of Historic Parks and Gardens of Cheshire (2004, Landmark Publishing). She has also written for The Garden, Building Design, Footsteps and Kunapipi. English Heritage has recently commissioned Linden to research and write the history of children’s play in public parks. .....
Gruen, J. Philip
Assistant Professor J. Philip Gruen, BA (Art History/Criticism), University of California, San Diego; MA (History of Architecture and Art), University of Illinois - Chicago; PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley
Grut, Jenny
Jenny Grut works as a psychotherapist for the Medical Foundation where she set up the Natural Growth Project in 1992. Born in Argentina, she has been living and working in Britain for 17 years. Her training in transpersonal psychotherapy provided a natural stepping-stone for this unique work, since it incorporates a spiritual dimension. Jenny Grut dies in 2006.
Gudeta, Ashenafi
Born in 1988, Ashe lives on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with his parents, twin brother Samuel and young brother Efrem.
Guy, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Guy's family moved to Stalling Busk, a tiny hamlet in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire when she was ten years old. Her parents, through their smallholding, lived "the good life", with a jersey cow which yielded rich milk, always a pig in the barn for homemade bacon, sausages and meat and of course a potato patch. After moving back to Wensleydale following University and a spell in London, Elizabeth opened Humble Pie, a delicatessen & fresh food takeaway. .....
Gwynne, Philip
Phillip Gwynne is one of eight children. The multi-award-winning Deadly, Unna?was Phillip's first novel and he won an AFI award for best adapted screenplay forthe film adaptation, Australian Rules. Phillip has also written several books foryounger readers, The Worst Team Ever, Born to Bake and A Chook Called Harry inthe Aussie Bites series, Jetty Rats and Swerve for older readers. His first picturebook, The Queen With The Wobbly Bottom, was published in 2012. .....
