Derek Beaven lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His first novel, ‘Newton’s Niece’ (1994), was shotlisted for the Writers’ Guild Best Novel Prize and won a Commonwealth Prize. ‘Acts of Mutiny’ was published in 1999, followed by the Booker long-listed novel, ‘If the Invader Comes’ (2001), and ‘His Coldest Winter’ (2005).
David Browne is the staff music critic at Entertainment Weekly, during which time he has hung with Beck, gone shopping with Leonard Cohen and roadied for Kiss. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Musician and other publications. He is also the writer of Amped.
After leaving art school Mark designed greetings cards before starting to write and illustrate children’s books. He has now written and illustrated over thirty books and designed more than five hundred greetings cards.
Jill Barklem was drawn to the natural world from childhood. While training as an illustrator at St Martin’s School of Art, her long journeys to college gave her time to escape into the imaginary world of a colony of mice, later to be developed as the enchanting miniature world of Brambly Hedge.
A.F. Brady is a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor/Psychotherapist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Brown University and two Masters degrees in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University. She is a life-long New Yorker, and resides in Manhattan with her husband and their family. The Blind is her first novel.
Matt Bai is the national political columnist for Yahoo News. For more than a decade he was a political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, where he covered three presidential campaigns. He is the author of The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, named a notable book of 2007 by The New York Times. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dale Brown was a much decorated US Air Force Captain aboard B-52s and FB111 fighter bombers, and participated in numerous top secret tests and exercises held to simulate an actual strategic war. He became a recognised expert on air warfare and appeared on American TV as a commentator during the Gulf War.
Only a man with Dale Brown’s background could provide the detailed authenticity that makes his novels such compulsive reading.
