Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. The idea for Christine was hatched back in 1978 when King was walking home one day and thinking about his dying Pinto. It tells the s... Read More
Stephen Edwin King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in English. While writing short stories he supported himself by teaching and working as a janitor, among other jobs. The Dune is a short horror story, first publi... Read More
James Grady is an American writer and investigative journalist known for his thriller novels on espionage, intrigue, and police procedurals. He graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 1974. During college, he worked for U.S. Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana. From 1974-1978, during the post-Watergate era, he worked with pioneering muckraking investigative journalist Jack A... Read More
James Grady was born on 30th April 1949, in Shelby, Montana, a field of tough oil, railroad, and farming town clinging to the prairie 60 miles East of the Rocky Mountains. The area is a half an hour drive south of Canada. For most of his youth age, his father managed movie theatres and his mother was a country library. He was a bookish, movie-going kid who enjoyed playing football in high schoo... Read More
Martina Cole is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was brought up in Aveley, Essex. As of 2015, she has released twenty-two novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. She has achieved sales of over... Read More
Martina Cole is Britain's bestselling author of fourteen novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent three paperbacks have gone straight to No. 1 in the Sunday Times on first publication. Total sales of Martina's novels stand at over eight million copies. Cole was born in Essex, England, to Irish Catholic parents, and was the youngest of five children. Her mother was a psychiatric nurs... Read More
Martina Cole is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was born in Essex, England, to Irish Catholic parents, and was the youngest of five children. Her mother was a psychiatric nurse from Glasnevin, County Dublin and her father was a merchant seaman from Cork City. Her cousin is Cork politician Denis Cregan. She was expelled from her convent school aged... Read More
Martina Cole was born and brought up in Essex. She is the bestselling author of fourteen novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent three paperbacks have gone straight to No. 1 in the Sunday Times on first publication. Total sales of Martina's novels stand at over eight million copies. In Goodnight Lady, Briony Cavanagh emerges as the head of the Cavanagh family from a background of e... Read More
Martina Cole was born and brought up in Essex. She is the bestselling author of fourteen novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent three paperbacks have gone straight to No. 1 in the Sunday Times on first publication. Total sales of Martina's novels stand at over eight million copies. In The Faithless, Gabby looked at the woman she had hated nearly all her life. Then she sat down on... Read More
Martina Cole is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was born in Essex, England, to Irish Catholic parents, and was the youngest of five children. Her mother was a psychiatric nurse from Glasnevin, County Dublin and her father was a merchant seaman from Cork City. Her cousin is Cork politician Denis Cregan. She was expelled from her convent school aged... Read More
Martina Cole is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was brought up in Aveley, Essex. As of 2015, she has released twenty-two novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. She has achieved sales of over... Read More
Douglas E. Richards is an American writer, primarily of science fiction and both nonfiction and fiction for children. George Noory wrote, "Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that brilliantly straddle the thriller and science fiction genres." In Mind's Eye, Nick Hall is a marine biologist while on an expedition... Read More
The author of BrainWeb, Douglas Richards, released his novel with Paragon Press on February 10, 2015. Technically BrainWeb is Richards’ second novel in his Thriller series, the first one being Mind’s Eye, which introduces Nick and how he came to be the owner of this special ability. However, these are standalone novels, Richards briefly explains and references back to the first novel so that th... Read More
Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that brilliantly straddle the thriller and science fiction genres. He is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. George Noory wrote, "Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that brill... Read More
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams has established a reputation as a teller of tall tales, insightful writing about the human condition, and a purveyor of deadpan slapstick science fiction. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, private investigator Dirk Gently draws his old college friend Richard MacDuff into a twistin... Read More
The Salmon of Doubt is a collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams, published after the author's untimely death in 2001. It was to be the third in the Dirk Gently book series, following Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Adams said that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it... Read More
Douglas Adams was the best selling author of the popular book series The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams was born in March 1952 in Cambridge, England. He attended Brentwood boarding school, where he excelled in creative writing and successfully gained a place to study English Literature at Cambridge University. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detect... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospi... Read More
Agatha Christie is one of the most popular writers in history. Almost four billion copies of her novels have been sold across the globe, and her book sales are beaten only by William Shakespeare. Here, we take a look at the life of the best-selling author, whose novels include some of the most recognisable characters in British literature, including Poirot and Miss Marple. The Thirteen Problems... Read More