Authors
Samantha Becket
Evans KA Benji
Evans KA Benji was born in Ghana but has been living in the United Kingdom since 2006. He began writing in 2013, motivated by his interest in the well-being and the development of the people.
Lara Bernardi
Lara Bernardi is a business economist FH, spiritual teacher, and mother of three girls. She has written numerous specialist articles for business magazines and is the author of several books and a business meditation CD. As a spiritual teacher, she counsels holistically using her clear-sightedness and clarity. Additionally, Lara offers training in mediumship, spiritual counseling, and new methods of healing as well as numerous seminars on how to become happy and healthy.Since childhood, she has been conscious of the immaterial realms. She ...
JP Beukes Jr
JP Beukes Jr was born in Volksrust, South Africa in 1947. After he matriculated in Kimberley, he started working in Pietermaritzburg. He obtained an engineering diploma and worked as a railway engineering specialist for The South African Railways for thirty-eight years travelling throughout Africa and beyond the continent. As a travel and photography enthusiast, he travelled the globe pursuing his hobby as a photographer. He is married to Glenda and has two daughters, Natalie and Liesel. He previously published African Wisdom in Verse, Images ...
C.P. Bird
C.P. Bird was born in 1969 in Nottingham, UK. He studied for 2’O’ levels in English Language and Literature. He spent 35 years in retail and 25 years in Health and Beauty Retail. He became interested in reading any kind of book from a young age. Reading became his form of escape which fed his vivid imagination and carried him through his school years. It was only two years ago that he decided to follow his dream and write his manuscript. C.P. Bird hopes to encourage people to follow their dreams, to trust in their abilities and to take a leap ...
Bridie Blackett
Bridie Blackett is an up and coming new poet. Treasured, a collection of beautifully written poems, will be her first book. Born in Dryburn, she is 32 years old and a self-employed mother of three. Soon to be married to her fiancé, Rory Red Hodgson, they currently live with their family in Sunderland. As well as writing poetry, Bridie works as a full time child minder. When she does get spare time, she loves keeping fit, eating out and most importantly, spending time with her family.
Alan Blackwood
Alan Blackwood is the author of numerous books and features on music, including a biography of the famous British conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham. More recently he has turned his skills to writing fiction. Many of his very short stories (or flash fiction) have already appeared in print. He is also completing his first novel.
Jane Bowen
Jane Bowen was born in Scotland after the Second World War. She attended Schools in Dumbarton, Glasgow, and Bolton, before reading History at the University of London, and training as a teacher at Cambridge. Jane taught in Bedford, Hertfordshire and Isle of Man before she became headmistress of a school in North Yorkshire.From there she returned to Scotland to join the Schools Inspectorate where she was involved in a range of initiatives among the most interesting of which was contributing to an inspection of Child Protection ...
D. W. Bradley
D. W. Bradley has lived in North Yorkshire for over thirty years but was born in 1950 in Lincoln, where he spent his childhood. After failing his eleven-plus exams, he transferred to a grammar school at the age of twelve and was selected for a place at the National Youth Theatre. He went on to train in drama at Bretton Hall, a prestigious institution for budding performers and teachers. Bradley found his niche teaching drama and was a secondary school headteacher for twenty years. His passions include the theatre, cricket, lecturing and ...
Valerie Braithwaite
Valerie Braithwaite is a talented author and educator with a passion for exploring issues of race, identity and origin. Valerie grew up with a love of swimming and art and design.She is a graduate of Teaching and Education at Leeds Beckett University and works as a trainee teacher at Leeds City College, where she shares her passion for education and inspires her students to achieve their full potential.Her first children’s book, Mistaken Identity – The Story of Tallulah, explores the complexities of race, identity and growing up in a world ...
Michael T Bruce
Michael T Bruce left school in the late ‘70s with little or no qualifications. As no one back in the ‘70s knew how to teach dyslexic people, he taught himself to read and write. After working on a hill farm in Derbyshire where he developed a love for horses, he spent six years in the armed forces. Mentally scarred by his experience, he turned to writing as an antidote to his nightmares. Michel is now back working with horses and is lucky enough to own his own horse called Drum.
Eleonora Georgeta Bulz
Born in a small city in Romania in 1955, Eleonora Georgeta Bulz grew up spending her holidays visiting her grandparents in a small village at the base of a mountain. She enjoyed the freedom of roaming the hills, mountains, and forests close by and spent lots of time connected to nature. She worked as head of reception and then manageress in a hotel and thereafter became a care assistant in a nursing home. After the revolution in Romania in 1989, Bulz was driven by her passion and started an animal charity. Bulz is divorced and currently ...
Diane Valerie Burgess
Diane Valerie Burgess was born in Birmingham in 1970. She has worked at British Rail, the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and is the lead vocalist in a Carpenters tribute band.At twenty-seven, Diane was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis, which caused her right hand to become deformed, and in 2021, she suffered a stroke, which paralysed her left hand. Despite this, Diane is still able to write poetry, her favourite pastime. In September 2022, Diane’s life took on a new direction when married the first man she has ever loved.
Norman Burslem
Norman Burslem, born in an air raid shelter in Salford in 1940, was educated mainly in North Wales and West Sussex before going on to become a primary school teacher, headteacher and eventually an advisor/inspector in this field. He and his wife have one son. Having taken up writing upon his retirement, Mr. Burslem has four published novels and has had poetry published in three anthologies.
Richard Byrne BSc(Hons)
Richard Byrne was born in Hull in 1956. He joined the military where he was injured after seven years. He attended Ulster University in Belfast and has a BSC Hons degree in Community Development. Richard was employed as a PCIH (Practitioner Chartered Institute of Housing). He is an empathetic, genuine and helpful person. His favourite activities are golf and spending time with women. He has travelled the world; has gone to Memphis and Graceland, where he once shook hands with Vesta Presley.His published works are 1914 Dig the Dry Zone, and ...
Camilla Soerensen and Naja Kjeldsen
Camilla Soerensen was born in 1954 in Copenhagen in Denmark. She received her schooling at Christianshavns Gymnasium where she obtained her ‘A’ Level. She went on to gain a BSC in Science and a PHD at London University, Chelsea College.She has been the CEO at Stratos Bio since 2002 and she has held senior Director positions at Roche and Novartis. She has remarkable skills as a Senior Executive and has excellent negotiation skills. She has published various scientific publications on healthy eating.Her favourite activities are skiing, ...