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FOYLE, Naomi
Poet, novelist, performer and professional Tarot Card reader, Naomi Foyle was born in London, grew up in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, and after a decade of globetrotting, now lives in Brighton.
Her writing, which often draws on her peripatetic past, is motivated by the paradoxical desire to both expose painful truths and celebrate the intense sensual beauty of life. Read the rest of this entry »
FUREY, Maggie
Maggie Furey grew up in Northumberland, an area with a past rich in battle, lore and legend. She was born with a rare heart condition, and as her physical activities were very limited during her childhood, she turned to books for solace, adventure and entertainment, constructing rich worlds of imagination that have stood her in very good stead in her later career.
As she grew up, her health vastly improved by surgery, she qualified as a teacher, and went on to work as an advisor in the Durham reading and Language Resources Centre. She also organised children’s book fairs and became a regular reviewer on the BBC Radio Newcastle programme ‘Children and Books’.
“It’s clearly fate,” she says. “Whatever I did in life, it always brought me back to books. Even when I was at school I was best in English, and my teacher always said I’d be a writer.” Read the rest of this entry »