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Lesley Downer talks about Across a Bridge of Dreams

Tuesday 7th August

I’ve always wanted to do a Japanese Romeo and Juliet and the story behind the film The Last Samurai (starring Tom Cruise) fitted perfectly. In my last two novels, The Last Concubine and The…

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Wednesday 25th July

From bestselling author Rexanne Becnel, The Rose of Blacksword is a spellbinding tale of two souls cast together by fate - and a love that resonates throughout the ages. Click here to…

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Born In Lancashire, Judy Astley has lived for most of her life in Twickenham, and was a dress designer and painter before writing her first novel, Just for the Summer, in 1994. She has two grown-up daughters and lives with her husband in Twickenham ...

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since. Her bestselling novels featuring the former private ...

Elisabeth Barrett

Rexanne Becnel

Karyn Bosnak

Karyn Bosnak was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. She is a daytime television producer turned Internet guru who likes (but can't afford) the finer things in life. She now resides in Brooklyn, New York. She can be reached at ...

Amanda Brunker

Amanda Brunker is an Irish tabloid columnist and a former Miss Ireland. Glamorous and outspoken, she's rarely out of the public eye.Amanda's books have been bestsellers in Ireland, with her debut, Champagne Kisses, reaching no.1 in the Irish ...

Jo Carnegie

Jo Carnegie lives in London. She spent her early career as a fledgling reporter on Bedfordshire's Biggleswade Chronicle before working at More! and Glamour magazine, and most recently as deputy-editor of Heat. Jo has interviewed stars from George ...

Claudia Carroll

Claudia Carroll was born in Dublin, where she still lives. She has worked extensively as an actress on the Irish stage, but is probably best known for her role as TV's nasty Nicola Prendergast in the long-running Irish soap opera Fair City, a ...

Sandra Chastain

Tamar Cohen

Tamar Cohen is a freelance journalist who lives in London with her partner and three teenage children. The Mistress's Revenge is her first novel.

Marita Conlon-McKenna

Marita Conlon-McKenna is a hugely successful Irish children's writer. Her first novel, UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE , sold over 250,000 copies in the Irish market alone. Her debut adult novel, THE MAGDALEN, was a number one bestseller in Ireland, ...

Catherine Cookson

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, ...

Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in Gloucestershire with her husband Leo, her rescue greyhound Feather and her black cat Feral.She was appointed OBE in 2004 for ...

Sharon Curtis

Debra Dixon

Louise Douglas

Louise Douglas was born in Yorkshire but has lived in Somerset for the past twenty years. She has three sons and a partner who works in construction. She is the author of four novels, including The Secrets Between Us and In Her Shadow. When she is ...

Lesley Downer

Lesley Downer's mother was Chinese and her father a professor of Chinese, so she grew up in a house full of books on Asia. But it was Japan, not China, that proved the more alluring, and she lived there for some fifteen years. She has written many ...

Lesley Downer

Gayle Forman

GAYLE FORMAN is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Elle in the US. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Ariana Franklin

Ariana Franklin was born in Devon and, like her father, became a journalist. Having invaded Wales dressed in combat uniform with the Royal Marines for one of their military exercises, accompanied the Queen on a royal visit, missed her own ...

Judith E. French

Juliana Garnett

Rachel Gibson

Rachel Gibson's storytelling career began at the age of sixteen when she ran her Chevy Vega into the side of a hill, and told her parents she'd been the victim of a hit and run. They believed her, and she's been telling stories ever since. Rachel ...

Sally Goldenbaum

Kathleen Grissom

Over the past ten years, Kathleen Grissom and her husband have been restoring an old plantation tavern in Virginia. While researching the plantation's past, Kathleen found an old map on which, not far from their home, was the notation, 'Negro Hill.' ...

Laurell K Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton is the New York Times bestselling author of eight Meredith Gentry novels as well as the acclaimed Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. She lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit her website at www.laurellkhamilton.org

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris is the author of Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2000, with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp), and ten more bestselling novels. Her work is published in over fifty countries and has sold an estimated 30 million copies ...

Amanda Hearty

Amanda Hearty lives in Blackrock, Co. Dublin with her husband Michael and their little daughter Holly. Amanda works in a busy Dublin publishers, and studied Commerce at UCD and has a Masters in Marketing from the Smurfit School of Business, Dublin. ...

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of more than 14 novels including Pay it Forward (which was made into a feature film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt), Love in the Present Tense (a Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller), Chasing Windmills, ...

Iris Johansen

Gayle Kasper

Rebecca Kelley

Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella is an international bestselling writer and former financial journalist. She is the author of the number one bestsellers Can You Keep a Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me? and Twenties Girl as well as the hugely popular ...

Ruthie Knox

Kristen Kyle

Victoria Lamb

Kathy Lette

Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she wrote ten ...

Liz Lyons

Liz Lyons is a graduate in English and History of Trinity College, Dublin. After graduation she spent ten years working in the Irish book trade as a bookshop manager. Barefoot Over Stones is her first novel. Born in Cork in 1970, she lives in Co. ...

Sarra Manning

Sarra Manning started her writing career on the music paper, Melody Maker, than spent five years working on the legendary UK teen mag, J17, first as a writer, then as Entertainment Editor. Subsequently she edited teen fashion bible Ellegirl UK and ...

Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead has an MA in comparative Religion and a passion for all things wacky and humorous. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband and four cats. Late night musings and updates about her new books can be found at: www.richellemead.com

Alison Mercer

Alison Mercer was born in Reading and studied English at University College, Oxford. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two children.

AJ Molloy

Elle Newmark

Elle Newmark lives in the hills north of San Diego, California. Her sensational debut was The Book of Unholy Mischief. Her second novel is The Sandalwood Tree.

Ashley Prentice Norton

Ashley Prentice Norton lives in New York with her husband and three children. The Chocolate Money is her first novel.

Anita Notaro

Anita Notaro is a TV producer, journalist and director and worked for RTE, Ireland's national broadcasting organization, for eighteen years. She has directed the Eurovision Song Contest and the Irish General Election, as well as programmes for the ...

Niamh O'Connor

Niamh O'Connor is the True Crime editor of Ireland's leading Sunday newspaper, the Sunday World. Her first novel, If I Never See You Again, was nominated for an Irish Book Award in the Best Newcomer category, and went to No.1 of the Heatseeker's ...

Carmen Reid

Carmen Reid is the author of the bestselling novels Three in a Bed and The Personal Shopper, amongst others. After working as a journalist in London she moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where she looks after one husband, two children, a puppy, three ...

Annette Reynolds

Katie Rose

Hallie Rubenhold

Hallie Rubenhold is an historian and expert on ordinary women's lives in the 18th century. She lives in London with her husband. Visit www.henriettalightfoot.co.uk and www.hallierubenhold.com

Susan Sallis

Susan Sallis is the author of over twenty bestselling novels, many of them set in the West Country. She was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in Somerset with her family.

Patricia Scanlan

Patricia Scanlan was born in Dublin, where she still lives. Patricia has written many best-selling novels and a collection of quotes, blessings, poems and reminiscences called Winter Blessings. Patricia is the series editor and a contributing ...

Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller American Wife, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize, as was her first novel, Prep, a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by The Man of My Dreams. Her books are translated ...

Deborah Smith

Eva Stachniak

Adrienne Staff

Mary Jane Staples

Mary Jane Staples was born, bred and educated in Walworth, and is the author of many bestselling novels including the ever-popular cockney sagas featuring the Adams family.

Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel is one of the world's most popular and highly acclaimed authors, with over 600 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Happy Birthday, 44 Charles Street, Family Ties and Legacy. She is also the ...

Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. Born in Gloucesterhire, she now lives in ...

Madeleine Wickham

Madeleine Wickham was born in London and published her first novel, The Tennis Party, while working as a financial journalist. Under the name of Sophie Kinsella she is the author of many number one bestselling novels including the Shopaholic series, ...

Valerie Wood

Valerie Wood was born in Yorkshire, where she still lives. Her first novel, The Hungry Tide, was the winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction. All her novels are available from Corgi books. Find out more about Valerie Wood’s novels by ...

Val Wood

Val Wood was born in Yorkshire and now lives in Beverley . She was the first winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction.Find out more about Val Wood's novels by visiting her website on www.valeriewood.co.uk