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This unique, searchable database contains profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers, as well as writers from these regions whom we have worked with. Included in the profiles are biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, and information about awards.

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Marcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick was born in 1968 in Kent, and has worked as a bookseller and inside children's publi...

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Qaisra Shahraz

Qaisra Shahraz was born in Pakistan and brought up in Manchester, England, from the age of nine. She...

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Matt Thorne

Matt Thorne was born in 1974, and grew up in Bristol. He studied at Cambridge University and is the ...

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Ann Turnbull

Ann Turnbull was born in Hertford in 1943, and brought up in south-east London. She worked as a secr...

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Matt Whyman

Matt Whyman is a young-adult novelist and a long-standing advice columnist for many teenage magazine...

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