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
Clinton Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins was born in Nairobi, then in British Kenya, on 26 March 1941. He is the son of Jean Mary Vyvyan and Clinton John Dawkins, an agricultural civil servant... Read More
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and the former Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intell... Read More
Richard Dawkins, in full Clinton Richard Dawkins, is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and popular-science writer who emphasized the gene as the driving force of evolution and generated significant controversy with his enthusiastic advocacy of atheism. In 1976 he published his first book, The Selfish Gene, in which he tried to rectify what he maintained was a widespread misunderstan... Read More
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist and one of science education's most passionate advocates, has spent his career elucidating the wonders of science for adult readers. But now, in a dramatic departure, he has teamed up with acclaimed artist Dave McKean and used his unrivalled explanatory powers to share the magic of science with readers of all ages. The Magic of Rea... Read More
Richard Dawkins is a British scientist whose books on genetics and evolution have found a wide general readership. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Dawkins studied at Oxford, then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Oxford as a fellow of New College. Richard Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene, his first book, to make clear that adaptations in species do not occur for the go... Read More
Sophie Kinsella is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic series, as well as The Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep a Secret? She has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages. Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. The book’s h... Read More
Sophie Kinsella is a writer and former financial journalist. She is the worldwide bestselling author of the Shopaholic series, Surprise Me, My Not So Perfect Life, Can You Keep a Secret?,The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I've Got Your Number and Wedding Night. Her novels have been translated into over forty languages, and Confessions of a Shopaholic, the first novel in the... Read More
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. The first two novels in her best-selling Shopaholic series, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Abroad, were adapted into the film Confessions of a Shopaholic. In 2014 she published a Young Adult novel Finding Audrey about a teenage girl with social anxiety and her madcap family, and... Read More
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. Her books have sold over 40 million copies in more than 60 countries and been translated into over 40 languages. At the age of 24, while working as a financial journalist, Wickham wrote her first novel. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a t... Read More
Sophie Kinsella is the pen name of an English author Madeleine Sophie Wickham. Sophie was born in London. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Kinsella is best known for writing the Shopaholic novels series of chick lit novels, which focus on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her o... Read More
Sophie Kinsella is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic series, as well as The Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep a Secret? She has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages. Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. The book’s h... Read More
Sophie Kinsella is a writer and former financial journalist. She is the worldwide bestselling author of the Shopaholic series, Surprise Me, My Not So Perfect Life, Can You Keep a Secret?,The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I've Got Your Number and Wedding Night. Her novels have been translated into over forty languages, and Confessions of a Shopaholic, the first novel in the... Read More
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. The eldest sister of fellow writers Gemma and Abigail Townley, Sophie Kinsella was educated at Putney High School, St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, Sherborne School for Girls, and New College, Oxford, where she initially studied Music, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Wic... Read More
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. Her books have sold over 40 million copies in more than 60 countries and been translated into over 40 languages. At the age of 24, while working as a financial journalist, Wickham wrote her first novel. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a t... Read More
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. At the age of 24, while working as a financial journalist, Wickham wrote her first novel. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten best-seller. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence, Swimming... Read More
Greg Iles is an American novelist. He was born in Germany in 1960. He grew up in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. He was active in a band called "Frankly Scarlet", but quit after realizing that the touring lifestyle was not conducive with his family life. Once no longer busy with the band, he turned his attention to writing. Iles is a member of the... 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
Mary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance. She was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. Then Comes Seduction is the second novel in Huxtable Family Quintet. Katherine Huxtable knows that Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, is a rake, but he'... Read More
Mary Jenkins, better known by her pen name Mary Balogh, 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. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, A Regency Love Story, was published in 1985 as A Masked... Read More