Authors A-F

Patricia Allderidge        

Former Archivist and Curator at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, Patricia Allderidge is writing for Jonathan Cape a biography of Richard Dadd, the acclaimed Victorian artist noted for his paintings of fairies and other supernatural subjects and who spent his adult life in Bedlam after murdering his father. 

UK publisher:  Jonathan Cape

Stephen Amidon

Author of Subdivision, Spitting the Atom, Thirst, The Primitive, The New City and Human Capital.   He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and four children.

"Stephen Amidon's beautiful and terrifying Human Capital is an ever-tightening knot of money, love, sex, and lies. This roaring read cuts to the heart of how we live now in America, risking all for the almighty dollar. His best book yet."  Colin Harrison, author of The Havana Room

“Powerful, unflinching, quietly brilliant. A novel charged with suspense…has the potential to endure as a clear and literate portrait of its time”  The Observer

UK publisher: Viking Penguin
US publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
US agent: Henry Dunow

Roderick Anscombe

Author of three novels, the most recent The Interview Room.  He is a forensic psychiatrist and lives in Massachusetts.

“The Interview Room is a new kind of thriller – provocative, entertaining, and morally chilling, for people who like their justice subtle.  A sly shocker that will invade your psyche and shake up your beliefs about good people and how bad they can get, it’s an absorbing novel.”  PERRI O’SHAUGHNESSY

US publisher: St Martins
In association with Anne Edelstein Literary Agency  US agent: Anne Edelstein

Ella Anstruther

Formidably talented writer working on her first novel, Redemption, based on a family story.

Louis Baum

A former editor of The Bookseller, Louis Baum is the author of many children’s books including Juju and The Pirate, I Want To See The Moon, Are We Nearly There and Bloomsbury are publishing to delightful new picture books, Tea With Bea and Milo Mouse and The Scary Monsters.

UK publisher:  Bloomsbury
US publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Charles Baxter

Author of four wonderful novels, including Shadow Play, The Feast of Love and Saul and Patsy, and four collections of stories, as well as poetry and essays.  He teaches at the University of Michigan. 

"Extraordinary. . . The Feast of Love is as precise, as empathetic, as luminous as any of Baxter's past work. It is also rich, juicy, laugh-out-loud funny and completely engrossing. . . . As loose and supple as life itself."  New York Times Book Review

UK publisher: Fourth Estate
US publisher:  Pantheon

In association with Darhansoff Verrill Feldman.  US agent: Liz Darhansoff.

Deborah Bennett

"The best introduction to logic you will find." Martin Gardner

Penetrating and practical, Logic Made Easy is filled with anecdotal histories detailing the often muddy relationship between language and logic. Even experienced logicians will be surprised by Deborah Bennett's ability to identify the illogical in everything from maddening street signs to tax forms that make April the cruelest month. Logic Made Easy is indeed one of those rare books that will actually make you a more logical human being.

Deborah J. Bennett is the author of Randomness and teaches mathematics at New Jersey City University in Jersey City.

UK publisher:  Penguin Press
US publisher: WW Norton
In association with New England Publishing Associates

Stephen Blanchard

Author of three highly regarded novels, Gargarin and I, Wilson’s Island and The Paraffin Child.

UK publisher:  Chatto and Windus/Vintage

Billy Bragg

Musician, broadcaster and writer, Billy Bragg has long been associated with grass roots political movements and with the political left.  Seeing the Clash convinced him that songs were the right way to explore his political convictions as a young man.  Now with the BNP making divisive political headway in his hometown of Barking, he has written his first book, The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging, a heartfelt exploration of his family’s past and a radical vision of a Britain where patriotism inclusive and a unifying force for good.

UK publisher:  Transworld
www.billybragg.co.uk

Judy Budnitz

Author of If I Told You Once (shortlisted for the Orange Prize) and two collections of short stories, Flying Leap and Nice Big American Baby. Judy has been selected as one of the Best of Young American Novelists 2 by Granta magazine.

‘an impressive talent harnessed to a wild imagination.’ The Times

UK publisher:  HarperPerennial
US publisher:  Knopf
In association with Darhansoff Verrill Feldman.  US agent: Leigh Feldman.

Dr Sandie Byrne

Sandie Byrne was formerly Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford, and now works for the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, of which the most recent is a full-length critical study of the work of Saki ( H.H. Munro).
She has recently begun to write fiction for young adults under the name by which she is known to her family, Alannah Byrne.

Pascal Cariss

A highly skilled and vastly experienced editor and publisher’s reader, Pascal is collaborating with Heston Blumenthal on Perfection, Further Adventures in Search of Perfection and the forthcoming and definitive book about Heston’s unique abilities, The Fat Duck Cookbook.

UK publisher:  Bloomsbury
US publisher: BloomsburyUSA

Pete Davies

Pete’s classic book about Italia ’90, All Played Out, is often cited as one of the most important books ever written about football.  He has also written many non-fiction books including Storm Country, American Road, This England, two sports books, I Lost My Heart to the Doncaster Belles (which was adapted for TV as Playing the Field) and Mad Dogs and English Women, popular science books, Catching Cold (about the 1918 flu pandemic) and The Devil’s Music, a daredevil investigation of hurricanes and the men who chart them.  He has also written two blisteringly good novels, The Last Election and Dollarville.

Shelagh Delaney

Shelagh wrote A Taste of Honey before she was 18, and it caused a sensation when it was staged by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in 1958.  The critic and film director Lindsay Anderson called it 'A work of complete, exhilarating originality.'  Two years later Shelagh wrote the screenplay for the film version, which won an Academy Award. Since then her writing has shown remarkable versatility. In 1963, she produced a collection of short stories entitled Sweetly Sings the Donkey, several television plays, among them Did your Nanny Come from Bergen? (1970), and St Martin's Summer (1974), award-winning scripts such as Charley Bubbles and Dance with a Stranger (1982), and radio plays such as So Does the Nightingale (1980).  She is working on a memoir.

UK publisher:  Methuen
US publisher:  Grove Atlantic

Lisa De Silva

Author of The Drive of Your Life, and now working on a novel.

UK publisher:  Hay House

Tony D’Souza

Author of the highly acclaimed Whiteman, Tony’s new novel, The Konkans will be published in 2008.

UK publisher:  Portobello Books
US publisher: Harcourt
In association with Darhansoff Verrill Feldman   US agent:  Liz Darhansoff

Gretel Erlich

In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman.  US agent: Liz Darhansoff.

Colin Evans

Colin Evans is a free-lance journalist specializing in crime, forensics, and justice issues. Colin was also a major contributor to other titles including Great American Trials (Gale Research: 1994 and 2001) Courtroom Drama (1998), Great World Trials (1997) and Sex, Sin & Mayhem: Notorious Trials of the 90s (Visible Ink: 1995).
Colin lived in the United States for 15 years before returning to his native Britain in 1998. His new book, The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI will be published by Icon Books.
In association with New England Publishing Associates US agent: Ed Knappman

Martina Evans

Novelist and poet, Martina is the author of a number of wonderful novels and collections of poetry

Margaret Forster

Margaret is a much-loved novelist of classics such as Georgy Girl and Lady’s Maid, The Memory Box and Diary of an Ordinary Woman, and recently Keeping the World Away, as well as a prize winning biographer of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She has won many prizes for her writing, including the J R Ackerley Prize and the Writer’s Guild Award, and her family memoir, Hidden Lives, was a bestseller. Her books are translated into many languages, and her new novel, Over, is recently published. She is now working on a book on the changing roles of grandmothers.

Forster is as distinguished a biographer and memoir-writer
as she is a novelist. She is an old hand at making a story
out of the fragments of a life.'
Daily Telegraph

'A richly textured, skilfully structured and highly enjoyable novel
by an experienced writer at the peak of her powers'
Times Literary Supplement(of Diary of an Ordinary Woman)

UK publisher:   Chatto/Vintage
US publisher:  Random House

Matthew Francis

Matthew Francis' first collection Blizzard, published by Faber and Faber, was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the Forward Poetry Prize and won the Southern Arts Literature Prize.  His novel, WHOM, was published by Bloomsbury.

Ronald Fraser

Ronald Fraser is the leading oral historian in the field of modern Spanish history, and is the author of In Hiding: the life of Manuel Cortes and The Pueblo: a mountain village on the Costa del Sol, In Search of the Past, Blood of Spain, 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt, and his forthcoming landmark book on the Peninsula War, To Die in Spain (Verso).