Authors
Obum Mokeme
Obum Mokeme was a registered mental health nurse. She studied mental health nursing in London, United Kingdom and worked in this area of health care for nearly a quarter of a century. She gained experience across the board, working in acute mental health, rehabilitation as well as in the care of the older adult. She rose to the position of a deputy ward manager at a world renowned and highly reputable hospital. She is now retired from this most challenging yet most rewarding field of endeavour. She still lives in London.
Vicky Morley
Vicky Morley has lived a full life with experiences in many different venues, both good and extremely bad. Developing post traumatic stress disorder from some of those situations created its own challenges but also helped her become tough enough to survive whatever is thrown at her.
Lawrence D Moyo
Lawrence D. Moyo was born at Dzenga Kraal, a rural village in Zimbabwe. He qualified as a High School Teacher, specialising in English. He has a QTS (UK), a B. Ed Degree (English) obtained from the University of Zimbabwe and a M. Ed Degree (Applied Linguistics) obtained from The Open University (UK). He has forty-five years' experience in education, both as a classroom practitioner and as an educational administrator in Zimbabwe and Teacher of English in the UK. He is currently retired and spends most of his time engaged in reading books and ...
Frederick Munn
Frederick Munn was born in 1928 in a one-bedroom tenement in Sheffield and attended Firth Park Grammar School. He has had many jobs, including a book salesman, vacuum cleaner salesman, an engineering clerk, Steel Buyer and a self-employed entrepreneur.He is the third son in a political family including two Lord Mayors and a junior Minister. He chooses to be apolitical, an observer describing himself as a “chancer” and a “romancer” fed on an early diet of AA Milne and Kipling and his mind was formed into that of a natural storyteller. He ...
Christopher Murphy
Born in 1959, Wigan, north-west England, Christopher Murphy also lived in south-east England and London before moving to Norway, residing there for twenty-five years. These locations provide the settings for this, his first novel, Unfolding Grace.His life is now devoted to living life in true integrity for All equally. Christopher spent many years walking the ‘wayward path’ that feeds us the illusion of our current individualized way of life. In the realization that we are all far greater than our current self-restricted appearance, he is ...
Roger Murphy
Roger Murphy has been a football enthusiast for as long as he can remember. Having played for his primary school team in Birkenhead, England, he played professionally for twenty-three years. He is held in high regard as a coach in clubs across the country and has worked with soccer clubs in America where he has also continued his training.When not spending time with his daughter or working as a coach or manager, Murphy spends his time keeping his fitness up by running or playing football or going to music concerts.
Moses Mwansa
Born in Chililabombwe Mine Hospital in 1975 and brought up in Kitwe, Zambia, Moses Chola Mwansa has obtained several qualifications including a Diploma in Religious Studies and Education (English/History), a Bachelor in Philosophy and a Master's Degree in Education (Management and Administration). He is a teacher of English and History and currently heads the Literature and Languages department in a girls’ High School. He has three children and enjoys reading, watching TV and taking long walks. This is his debut novel.
Ulrich Ndilira Rotam
Ulrich Ndilira Rotam is a researcher in physics and cosmology, an international Oilfield technical engineering specialist in land and offshore, an inventor and author. He enjoys reading, helping people, playing basketball, playing with his children and traveling to different places around world. Rotam conducted research for this book over eighteen years. He spent most of his time thinking about the deep concepts of universe and making calculations to understand.
John Needham
John Needham, born and raised in Bournmouth where he lives with his wife and three children. He started his writing career in 2009 and is enjoying it more and more. He left school in 1977 and started his working career at Plessey’s, later to become Siemens and in time worked on gas turbines. He then moved on to London and worked for Tate & Lyle, travelling the world visiting sugar refineries, finally ending up in the oil and gas industry. In his spare time, he likes to write history books, including his debut novel, A Smuggler’s Tale.
Tony O'Gallagher
Tony O’Gallagher has led a relatively quiet life in Newry, Northern Ireland. He was born in the early 1950s in London and attended a Christian Brothers’ grammar school. He is divorced and has three sons. His hobbies include playing bridge, reading and Sudoku, as well as divining water. He had held some high-ranking positions within the Northern Ireland Bridge Union and the Irish Bridge Union. This book, Clanwe Yashpack, is his first published work.
Colin Oakes
Colin Oakes was born in Norfolk on 16 May 1945 and has had a varied career covering catering as a trainee chef, leading on to management. He attended Norwich City College to gain qualifications in catering and sage bookkeeping. He also spent time as a building labourer and in a meat processing factory ending his working life as a self employed gardener/handyman.Colin lives with his partner Janet and together they have 2 daughters, 1 son and four grandchildren living in England and Tasmania.Having made up stories for his daughter, Colin ...
Osita Obi
Osita Obi was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1962 and has a BA (Hons) degree in English. He lives in Manchester, is married and has two children. Since graduating from university, Osita’s passion has been writing poetry and prose. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Okike, Revue Noire, Farafina Online, Sonnie Adegboyin’s Frontiers: Nigerian Short Stories and Helon Kabila and Kadija Sesay’s Dreams, Miracles and Jazz: New Adventures in African Writing.Osita’s own published works include The Girl Who Loved the ...
Evelyn Ogbebor Iguisi
Evelyn Ogbebor Iguisi was born in Benin City, Nigeria. While lecturing at the University of Benin, Nigeria, she met her husband who was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation at the University of Maastricht, Holland. She became a young mother while studying for a Ph.D. degree in Belgium at the University of Brussels. She later became the publisher of AFRIFAME magazine, published in English and French.Having relocated to the United Kingdom, she went to the University of Nottingham for a post graduate ...
Oyeniyi Osundina
He was educated in Nigeria at Ahmadu Bello University and University of Ibadan and USA at Pratt Institute Graduate School, New York and University of Pittsburg Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.Oyeniyi has years of experience in management, university teaching, government and research. He is an advocate of a strong relationship between purposeful development and culture. He is author of many journal articles and four books. In the course of his career he has attended several international conferences and seminars at which ...
Joseph K. Oyeleye
Dr. Joseph K. Oyeleye grew up in a poor family with parents that loved and wanted the best for their children. At the age of 16 he made a promise that poverty in his family would end with him. Knowing the pains and horrors of poverty, he dedicated himself to making the sacrifices needed to achieve his goal, eventually becoming a minister and receiving a doctoral degree in healthcare management. Today all four of his children are successful in their chosen careers and he has committed himself to helping others succeed as well.
James K. Papay
Novelist James K. Papay is an avid reader of all things sci-fi. In this, his debut novel, Mr. X: Assassin By Desire, Mr. Papay takes his sci-fi into a whole newly created world. Born in East Chicago, Indiana, his move to Newcastle in the UK has allowed him to work within the security sector. Papay juggles his work and writing with family life including four children. His aim in his writing is to entice readers through his artistic imagination to experience the unexpected…