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Davidson, Alan

Alan Davidson was a distinguished author and publisher, and one of the world’s best-known writers on fish and fish cookery. In 1975 he retired from the Diplomatic Service to pursue his second career as food historian and writer extraordinaire. With...

Dickinson, Peter

Born in Zambia in 1927, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective nov...

Dowling, Tim

Tim Dowling was born in Connecticut in 1963. He attended Brien McMahon High School and graduated from Middlebury College in 1985. Shortly after moving to Britain in the early 90s he cut short a promising career in data entry to try his luck at freela...

Drysdale, Helena

Helena Drysdale is the author of two travel books, ALONE THROUGH CHINA AND TIBET and DANCING WITH THE DEAD, which described her experiences in Madagascar. Her memoir LOOKING FOR GEORGE was shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstones non-fiction prize. ...

Dunmore, Helen

Helen Dunmore was the first winner of the Orange Prize and is also an acclaimed children's author and poet. She has published ten adult novels with Viking and Penguin: ZENNOR IN DARKNESS, winner of the McKitterick prize; BURNING BRIGHT; A SPELL OF W...

Dunn, Jane

Jane Dunn is one of our leading biographers, the author of MOON IN ECLIPSE: A LIFE OF MARY SHELLEY, A VERY CLOSE CONSPIRACY: VANESSA BELL AND VIRGINIA WOOLF, and ANTONIA WHITE: A LIFE. ELIZABETH AND MARY was published in the spring of 2003 and spen...

Dunthorne, Joe

Joe was born in Swansea, South Wales and now lives in East London. He graduated from the Creative Writing Prose MA at the University of East Anglia, where he was awarded The Curtis Brown Prize. In 2005 he travelled to Bangladesh with the British Coun...