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AARONOVITCH, Ben
Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of the World’.
In his youth he wrote for Doctor Who (his ‘Remembrance of the Daleks‘ is regarded as a classic by many) Casualty and the late lamented space soap Jupiter Moon – a show so low budget that you were only allowed seven of the regular cast in any given episode! Read the rest of this entry »
ADKIN, Mark
Major Mark Adkin spent many years as an infantry officer in the British Army seeing active service in Malaya and Aden. This was followed by a career as an administrative officer in the Colonial Service in the Solomon Islands and Gilbert Islands (now Kirbati) in the Pacific where he was a District Officer and later Secretary to a minister. The next five years was in uniform again as a contract officer with the Barbados Defence Force and as an internal security planner for several Caribbean islands.
The event that triggered Mark’s third career as a military historian and author was his participation in the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »
ASH, Sarah
‘Thursday’s Child has Far to Go.’ Sarah was born on a Thursday and she still likes to think that means there’s a lot more mileage in her yet, particularly when it comes to her first love – writing.
After she read The Lord of the Rings when she was twelve, she started writing her own fantasy novels but chose to study music at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), Cambridge. She’s always enjoyed working with young people, so she trained as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge. After she got married, she lived in Ealing, then West Wales, Normandy (France), and Beckenham, Kent. Read the rest of this entry »