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Al Cimino is the author of over 100 books including The History of the Mafia, House of Horrors, Killers-the Most Barbaric Murderers of Our Time, The World's Ten Most Evil Men.Charlotte Greig graduated with an MA in Intellectual History and started freelancing as a writer and editor for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including NME and the Guardian.John Marlowe is the author of The World's Most Evil Psychopaths and Evil Wives he is currently working on an annotated edition of the 1950 pulp exposé Montreal Confidential.

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Konstantinos Tselios is a yoga instructor and magazine journalist, writing about yoga and alternative health and spirituality in magazines such as Kindred Spirit and Prediction. Kostas runs his own yoga centre called Heliodorus Yoga, and he has completed several yoga teacher training courses, including with Sivananda Yoga, Agama Yoga, and Jivamukti Yoga. In 2019, he also gained a Certificate in Mindfulness Teaching from the UK College of Mindfulness Meditation, completing their mindfulness teacher training course in the UK. He offers one-to-one therapy that includes techniques from yoga, mindfulness meditation, as well as advice on diet and natural medicines, including Ayurvedic health advice gained from his long-term relationship with several specialists in India.

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Dougal Dixon is an award-winning author, geologist, palaeontologist and educator who has written several acclaimed titles on dinosaurs for adults and children. Dougal was presented with the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism by The Educational Press Association of America in 1993, The Children's Book Council 1994 Outstanding Trade Science Book Award, and the Times Educational Supplement Primary Schoolbook Award 1996. In 1996 he was appointed as a trustee of the Dinosaur Society, UK. In 2019, his "When the Whales Walked", was awarded the Children's Choice Award by the School Library Association. He has made several television appearances, and acted as a consultant and animator for a video programme about dinosaurs. Mat Edwards is an extraordinarily versatile artist, who can create everything from photorealistic prehistoric vistas to vintage-style paintings. Such was Mat's talent at school that he won a four-yea

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Vivienne Coleman is a professional artist specializing in pencil drawing. Originally a research scientist, Vivienne was inspired to draw again as an adult after joining an art group. She now undertakes commissions including pet portraits, people and wildlife, and runs drawing courses at her home in the English Lake District.

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Alex Woolf studied history at the University of Essex and is the author of a number of non-fiction titles, including A Short History of the World and 1001 Hideous History Facts, and co-author of The Great Scientists. He has also written fiction for children and young adults. He lives in London.

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Eric Saunders is one of the world's leading puzzle compilers. An expert crossword clue creator, IQ puzzle manipulator and innovator of many new puzzles each year, he has supplied puzzles to newspapers including The Times and is the author of many puzzle compilations for publishers around the world.

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Marie Bruce is a popular and prolific author and columnist, producing over 20 books, including The Witch's Almanac, which was updated and re-released every year for ten years. She has a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Since 1998 she has been consistently published, predominantly in the Mind, Body, Spirit genre where she remains one of the leading authors in her field. She has held long-term Core Contributor contracts with both Bauer Publishing and Time Inc. producing lead articles and features for various magazines including Prediction, It's Fate, Fate & Fortune, Witchcraft & Wicca, Soul & Spirit, Writer's Forum, Pagan Dawn and more. Marie also wrote a key-stone column on practical witchcraft for UK esoteric magazine, Spirit & Destiny, for over eight years. Since 2018 she has been with Kindred Spirit magazine, writing her self-help column Creative Counselling.

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Louis Catlett is a keen procrastinator and puzzle creator. His books are packed with peculiar puzzles that are designed to derail your train of thought. Louis' unique brand of cryptic nonsense is daft and clever in equal measures, with an off-the-wall charm that keeps the pages and cogs turning.

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H. A. Guerber (1859-1929) was an American author and educator, born in Michigan, who spent much of her life penning retellings of folklore, mythology, poetry and much more. She produced many educational books in her life aimed at equipping students with more knowledge about history and geography.

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Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) was a British philosopher and science fiction author. During his life, he penned many books including Last and First Men (1930), Star Maker (1937) and Sirius (1944). He died in 1950. In 2014 -64 years after his death -he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

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Joel Jessup has been a scriptwriter, show developer and author for over 20 years. He has previously worked with Disney, ITV and the BBC and written several films, including a horror short that has won multiple awards. He lives in London with his wife, two children, and a self-induced case of puzzle-brain.

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Ana Peake is an Illustrator based in Austin, Texas. After ten years of graphic design and art direction experience, Ana discovered her love for illustration and bringing art into the lives of children. Since then she has created work for Minted, Target, Kendra Scott and Barnes & Noble. Her work celebrates her Mexican American heritage.Corinna Keefe is a versatile author of fiction and non-fiction who has written extensively for both adults and children. Her short story The Specific Ocean was shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize, and her poetry has been published in Popshot Quarterly and Ink Sweat & Tears. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, England.

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Alex Woolf is the award-winning author of over eighty books of fiction and non-fiction, mainly for children and young adults. In 2019, he won the Fiction Express Award for his book Mystery at Moon Base One and in 2021 he won the Association for Science Education award for his non-fiction book Think Like a Scientist. His horror novel, Soul Shadows, was shortlisted for the Falkirk Red Book Award. He lives in North London, England.Juanita Londoño-Gaviria was born in Colombia, and has always lived amidst the mountains, surrounded by nature, birds and flowers. She studied fashion design in her hometown, Medellín, and graduated in Concept Art from Vancouver Film School in 2018 and has been freelancing as an illustrator and a textile designer since then.

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Polly Cheeseman is an experienced writer and editor with a particular interest in science and nature for children. She has worked on a wide variety of publications, including books, annuals, magazines and part-work collections. Bethany Lord is a freelance illustrator based in London. She graduated in Illustration from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2018 and most recently from Kingston University in 2019 with an MA in Communication Design: Illustration. She was highly commended by Macmillan books in 2018 for her final third year book project. Bethany's work includes children's book illustration, maps, travel editorial illustration, and packaging illustration.

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Claudia Martin is a highly respected author of non-fiction for children and young adults, with an exceptional talent for making complex ideas accessible. She specializes in the subjects of geography, science, and the natural world. Her books have been translated into 14 languages and have sold over a quarter of a million copies. She lives in London.Helen Giles (contributor) is an astronomer with a PhD from the Observatoire de Genève in Switzerland. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Member of the European Astronomical Society, and an expert in the study of starspot photometric signatures and the hunting of extrasolar planets.Marc Pattenden is a self-taught illustrator from Lewes, in the UK. He works digitally with the aim of creating colourful engaging work, full of texture and atmosphere. Marc finds the process of illustration a totally joyful experience and is very glad to have made a career out of it. He hopes t

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Gemma Barder is an author and editor living in South Leicestershire with her husband, two daughters and a mischievous cocker spaniel. She has written activity books, novels and picture books.Andy Passchier is an illustrator and designer from The Netherlands, currently living in Ohio, USA. Their art has a playful, hand-drawn quality that has proved popular in many formats.

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Eric Saunders is one of the world's leading puzzle compilers. An expert crossword clue creator, IQ puzzle manipulator and innovator of many new puzzles each year, he has supplied puzzles to newspapers including The Times and is the author of many puzzle compilations for publishers around the world.The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established in 1840 from the gardens owned by the royal family at Kew Park. In addition to the gardens at Kew, the botanic Gardens also run Wakehurst, the home of the Millennial Seed Bank. The gardens at Kew hold more than 50,000 species of plants and are visited by more than 1.5 million people from across the world every year.

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