Helen Fielding is the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries. She also won British Book of the Year award for Bridget Jones’s Diary. She received her early education from Wakefield Girls High School and then she went on to major in English from St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Moreover, she performed... Read More
Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi. Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned a living as a teacher, librarian and journalist. In her first year of medical studies at the University of Sydney, she suffered dermatitis from surgical soap and was told to abandon her dreams of be... Read More
With many millions of books sold globally, Colleen McCullough was arguably Australia's most popular novelist. Best known for The Thorn Birds, she penned more than two dozen books, including the Masters of Rome. Antony and Cleopatra is the seventh and purposely last novel in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. Mark Antony, a famous warrior and legendary lover, expected that he would be... Read More
Colleen McCullough is an internationally acclaimed Australian writer whose novels have been sold in twenty territories. In 1963, McCullough moved for four years to the United Kingdom. At the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, she met the chairman of the neurology department at Yale University who offered her a research associate job at Yale. She spent 10 years researching and teaching in t... Read More
Colleen McCullough is best known as the author of The Thorn Birds, a popular generational saga set in Australia that made publishing history as an international bestseller. Though she earned a reputation as a romance writer with this novel and Tim, McCullough has produced a diverse body of fiction in several genres, notably the psychological novel An Indecent Obsession, the dystopic fantasy A C... Read More
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author especially known for her award-winning novel Chocolat. Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed, Sleep, Pale Sister and Choco... Read More
Joanne Harris began writing at an early age. She was strongly influenced by Grimms' Fairy Tales and Charles Perrault's work, as well as local folklore and Norse mythology. She was educated at Wakefield Girls' High School, Barnsley Sixth Form College, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where she studied modern and medieval languages. In Coastliners, Madeline, “Mado”, coming back from Paris t... Read More
Joanne Harris is an acclaimed contemporary English writer who writes under mixed genres, such as magic realism and gastromance. She was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, to an English father and a French mother. Her parents were both teachers of modern languages and literature at a local grammar school. Her first language was French, which caused divisions between her English family, where nobody... Read More
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat, The Testament of Loki and many other bestselling novels, plus the novella The Blue Salt Road, short stories, screenplays and cookbooks. Her books are published in more than 50 countries and have won numerous awards. The Evil Seed, Sleep, Pale Sister and Chocolat were published before she retired from teaching to become an author... Read More
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author especially known for her award-winning novel Chocolat. Since Chocolat, all of Harris's books have been UK bestsellers. She has written three more novels in the Chocolat series, continuing the adventures of Vianne Rocher. Gentlemen and Players is a dark psychological thriller, some of the themes may be partly based on Harris' experiences as a tea... Read More
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author. Harris is the holder of honorary doctorates in literature from the University of Huddersfield and the University of Sheffield and is an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge. She is an elected member of the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. In Blackberry Wine, Jay Mackintosh is a 37-year-old has-been writer from Lon... Read More
Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her first novel, The Evil Seed, was published in 1989, with only limited success. Sleep, Pale Sister is her second novel. In 1999 her third novel, Chocolat, a darkly magical modern folk-tale, thematically based on food and set in the Gers region of France, reached No. 1 in the Sun... Read More
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author especially known for her award-winning novel Chocolat. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. In 2013 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours L... Read More
Diane Setterfield is a British author. Before writing, Setterfield studied French Literature at The University of Bristol, earning a bachelor of arts in 1986 and a PhD in 1993. Setterfield taught at numerous schools as well as privately before leaving academia in the late 1990s. First published in 2006, The Thirteenth Tale was the author's first published book and became a New York Times No.1 b... Read More
Candace Bushnell is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City and two subsequent movies. Trading Up is her 2003 romance novel. In the London Guardian, Stephanie Merritt wrote that the book "succeeds because s... Read More
Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling author of Killing Monica, Sex and the City, Summer and the City, The Carrie Diaries, One-Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, and Four Blondes. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Bushnell was contracted by HarperCollins in 2008 to write a s... Read More
Candace Bushnell is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City and two subsequent movies. At the age of 19, Bushnell moved to New York City and sold a children's story to Simon & Schuster. She attended Ric... Read More
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a leading Congregationalist minister... Read More
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances... Read More
Mary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance. She was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, daughter of Mildred "Double", a homemaker, and Arthur Jenkins, a signwriter and painter. She moved to Canada on a two-year teaching contract in 1967 after leaving university. As an adult, Balogh discovered the world of the Regency romance as written by Georgette Heyer. The vast majori... Read More