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Nigel Farndale is the author of The Blasphemer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. His previous books include Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, which was a finalist for the Whitbread Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives on the Hampshire-Sussex border with his wife and their three sons.www.nigelfarndale.com

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Chip Heath (Author) Chip Heath is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Chip and his brother, Dan, have written four New York Times bestselling books: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive and The Power of Moments. He has helped over 530 start-ups refine and articulate their strategy and mission. Chip lives in California.Karla Starr (Author) Karla Starr has written for O The Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, the Guardian and the LA Times. She has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning. She is the author of Can You Learn to Be Lucky? and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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''A must for fans of reality TV or true crime - compelling and page-turning with some shocking twists along the way'' - CATHERINE COOPER, bestselling author of The Chalet''Riveting, skillful and wonderfully inventive'' - Daily Mail_''We''re not famous anymore. We''re notorious.''For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalty, with millions tuning in every week to watch their reality show, Living with the Lancasters.But then an old video emerges of one of their legendary parties. Suddenly, they''re in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons: witnesses swore they''d seen missing teenager Bradley Wilcox leaving the Lancaster family home on the night of the party, but the video tells a different storyNow true crime investigator and YouTuber Tom Isaac is on the case. He''s determined to find out what really happened to Bradley - he just needs to read between the Lancasters'' lies . . .<

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''Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money money'' Sunday Express''The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation'' Sunday TimesSuperb... Genuinely gripping and with a wonderful heroine' Daily Mail_____________The latest instalment in the Munch and Krüger series from the bestselling author of I''m Travelling Alone.She'd once come here to kill herself but now Mia Kruger has returned to the picturesque island of Hitra to escape from the violence and madness of her life as a police investigator.But when she is approached by 11-year-old Sofia asking for help in finding her missing friend, her old instincts are awakened. Three years ago, Jonathan disappeared without a trace on his way home from Sofia''s house. Mia is just beginning to re-examine the cold case when another crime rocks the island: a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, with Jonathan''s name written in her blood.Knowing th

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Discover the book everyone is talking about - the unputdownable new thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing.An absolute page turner!' Shari LapenaI enjoyed every terrifying page.' Elly GriffithsA gripping story.' Patricia CornwellHome alone? Think again...Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing open, and a masked figure drops to the floor. Thirty seconds later, Anya is dead.Across town, Anya''s old school friend, Julia, sees an online video of a masked figure climbing out of an attic. She suddenly realises why the footage is eerily familiar. It was filmed inside her house.Why would a stranger target Julia? Unless of course, it''s not a stranger at all...No secret is safe in this brand new twisty thriller from Andrea Mara.Readers love Someone in the Att

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'An espionage story of high literary calibre' Strong Words Magazine'A dramatic and thoroughly immersive account of loyalty, ideology and betrayal' Guardian'A terrific new voice in spy fiction...A complex, action packed portrait of a continent in ferment' Mail on Sunday'In remarkably granular detail, Worrall conjures up a Fifties Paris where historical and fictional characters coexist' Sunday Times________________It's 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupied nations of eastern Europe. As the Red Army tightens the net, Greta - best and bravest of freedom fighters - is told to escape to the West and undertake a dangerous mission.Greta's task is to find a missing girl: the precious daughter of a partisan general who was sent into exile in the final days of the war.But the so-called Free World is no place for vulnerable young refugees. Europe is in ruins, th

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THE NEW LUKE CARLTON THRILLER.BBC Security Correspondent FRANK GARDNER''S thrillers are . . .''Fast, taut, tense, accurate.'' FREDERICK FORSYTH''Utterly authentic.'' DAILY MAIL''Enthralling, intelligent.'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''Nerve-shredding.'' TONY PARSONS''Heart-in-mouth.'' i-NEWSPAPER''Compulsively readable.'' RADIO TIMES __________________________________________The world is on high alert. Across the Strait from Taiwan, China's armed forces appear to be readying for war. Could the People's Republic be preparing to invade its island neighbour?Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has a mole deep within the Chinese Communist Party leadership an individual in possession of intel that could defuse this fast-escalating situation. A collector' is sent to meet the spy and, in an anonymous Hong Kon

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Three women. One Killer.Talking to strangers has never been more dangerous...When the body of forty-four-year-old Karen Simmons is found abandoned in remote woodland, journalist Kiki Nunn is determined this will be the big break she so desperately needs.Because she has a head start on all the other reporters. Just a week before Karen was killed, Kiki interviewed her about the highs and lows of mid-life romance. Karen told her all about kissing strangers on the beach under the stars, expensive meals, roses. About the scammers and the creeps...While the police appear to be focusing on local suspects, Kiki sets out to write the definitive piece on one woman''s fatal search for love. But she will soon learn that the search for truth can be just as deadly...Readers are gripped by Talking To Strangers!''WOW. I did NOT see this twist coming. This is my favorite kind of book - a whodunnit that leaves you guessing...right up un

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The joyful summer read, perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Nora EphronOne week at the beach. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? Instant NEW YORK TIMES bestseller STYLIST Book of the Month: A holiday reading gem' GUARDIAN Book of the Week: Wise and exquisitely written' RACHEL JOYCE: A piece of perfection' GRAZIA Book of the month: A summer read with added bite' For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape. Their rustic beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, its quirky furniture and mismatched pots and pans greeted like old friends.Now, sandwiched between her children who are adult enough to be fun but still young enough to need her, and her parents who are alive and healthy, Rocky wants to preserve this golden moment forever. This one precious week when everything is in

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The gripping historical debut about a family separated by the Berlin wall - perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See, In Memoriam and Alone in BerlinSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024'A tautly plotted, deeply involving novel that packs a real emotional punch ... I can't recommend this novel highly enough' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us'A hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, family and societal unrest all set against the backdrop of the Berlin Wall' Glamour_____Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your child...Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some rest, that he'll be fine.When she awakes, everything has changed. Because overnight, on 13 August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed, slicing

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''A brilliantly imagined World War II saga'' KirkusA compellingly chaotic blend of art-heist thriller, wartime adventure, historical epic and coming-of-age drama' ObserverDerek B Miller has crafted an ambitious, sometimes tricksy story full of colourful charactersdarkly funny, readable and intelligent' Times_________________We will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin our way to Napoli. We will trust no one but each other, and we will remember that in this place, at this time, there is no way to tell friend from foe.The bombing of Rome in 1943 leaves fourteen-year-old Massimo orphaned and with no choice but to set out on a perilous journey to find his remaining family in Naples. A chance meeting with the mysterious and charismatic Pietro Houdini will deliver both of them to the doors of the monastery of Monte Cassino, a centuries-old haven of contemplation, learning and art.But the abbey i

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Funny, feelgood, heartlifting story about the power of intergenerational friendship and finding love in unexpected places - perfect for fans of The One Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Through the Window and The Rosie Project'Marianne Cronin creates such complete and lovable characters. Brimming over with kindness and hope. Sublimely enjoyable' Hazel Prior, author of Away with the Penguins'Lives up to the brilliance of The One Hundred Years of Lenni & Margot and, dare I say it... surpasses it. Funny, captivating, faultless' Julietta Henderson______________Eddie Winston is ninety years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed.A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along the way. It is here that he me

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Enter the circus at your own risk . . . and discover the greatest show on earth in this explosive and darkly magical fantasy novelFor humans, the circus is a place filled with wonder and amazement. For Harrow, it''s a place to hide from those who slaughtered her entire clan. Disguising her abilities as part of her act has kept her true identity safe for years.Until he arrives.A strange new attraction with no name, no memory of who or even what he is, let alone an explanation for his odd yet deadly powers. But beneath the layers of anger and isolation, one glimpse into his inky eyes reveals a soul that calls out to the loneliness in her own.And so, she chooses him.Harrow is drawn to the darkness, to her insatiable need to soothe the beast who threatens their very existence. But with every secret she unlocks from his past, another from hers is revealed luring enemies who will stop at nothing to get their final revenge on Harrow. And she''s

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? The White Lotus meets Lucy Foley''s The Guest List in this chilling, sun-soaked thriller about three vengeful women, a beautiful island resort, and the darkest of secrets. ?''A sublime thriller, an absolute scorcher. I loved it!'' - ANDREA MARA, No. 1 bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing''A whip-smart, fun, and stylish novel - I raced through it.'' GILLIAN McALLISTER, No.1 bestselling author of Wrong Place, Wrong TimeBest friends Darcy, Camilla and Kate have just landed in to the Maldives for a luxury holiday at the exclusive Sapphire Island Resort.They can''t wait for ten days of scorching sun, crystal-clear waters, white-sand beaches - and the chance to put a traumatic shared past behind them.But what awaits them is a murderous revenge plot that none of them saw coming.Or did they?***READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH BAD TOURISTS!377 pages of

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MICHAEL MCDOWELL was born in 1950 in Alabama. His notable books include the gothic novels Gilded Needles, The Elementals, Katie, and the gothic horror saga, Blackwater, which has become a phenomenal bestseller across Europe and elsewhere. He was also a successful screenwriter for film and TV, including his scripts for Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, Tales from the Crypt and The Nightmare Before Christmas. McDowell died in 1999. Tabitha King, wife of author Stephen King, completed his unfinished novel, Candles Burning.

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Samuel Bjork is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien. The Munch and Krüger series features five books: the Richard & Judy Bookclub bestseller I'm Travelling Alone, The Owl Always Hunts At Night, The Boy in the Headlights, The Wolf and Dead Island.

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Paul Britton was born in 1946. Following degrees obtained in psychology from Warwick and Sheffield universities, he has spent the last twenty years working as a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist. He has advised the Association of Chief Police Officers' Crime Committee on offender profiling for many years and currently teaches postgraduates in clinical and forensic psychology. He is married with two children. Paul Britton is the author of Picking Up the Pieces and The Jigsaw Man, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.

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Julietta Henderson grew up in the rainforests of North Queensland, Australia. Like many Australians, her love affair with Europe began when she came to London on a working holiday and stayed for more than a decade. Now a full-time writer, Julietta divides her life between Melbourne, the UK and wherever she can find winter.

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Patrick Worrall was educated at a comprehensive school in Worcestershire and King's College, Cambridge. He has worked as a teacher in eastern Europe and Asia, a newspaper journalist, a court reporter at the Old Bailey, and the head of the Channel 4 News FactCheck blog. His first novel, The Partisan, was inspired by a World War Two photograph of three young female freedom fighters he saw in a museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Exile is his second novel.

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Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of the thrillers The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The End of Her, Not a Happy Family and Everyone Here is Lying which have all been Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers. Her books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She lives in Toronto.Facebook: ShariLapenaTwitter: @sharilapenaInstagram: sharilapena

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Dana Mattioli has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal since 2006. She has written investigative pieces and Front Page stories about Amazon since 2019 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism for her work on Amazon. Her Amazon coverage also received the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting. In 2021, she received the WERT Prize, an award from the Women's Economic Round Table that honors excellence in comprehensively reported business journalism for her Amazon investigations, and received a Front Page Award for her Amazon coverage.Prior to covering Amazon, Dana held one of the WSJ's highest profile beats covering mergers & acquisitions. During her 16-year career at WSJ she has produced a string of investigations and Page One stories on CEOs, boards of directors, technology companies and retailers.Dana is the recipient of a second Gerald Loeb award for breaking news, the SABEW breaking news award, two New York Press Club awards an

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Colm O'Regan is a columnist, broadcaster, comedian and author. He has published four books of non-fiction the three bestselling books of Irish Mammies and Bolloxology and published his first novel, Ann Devine: Ready for Her Close-Up in 2019. Ann Devine: Handle with Care is his second novel. Originally from Cork, he now lives in Dublin with his wife Marie and daughters Ruby and Lily.

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Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal and Mona of the Manor. He also wrote an acclaimed memoir, Logical Family.Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com

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Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal and Mona of the Manor. He also wrote an acclaimed memoir, Logical Family.Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com

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Christopher Fowler was the multiple award-winning author of almost fifty novels and short story collections, including the celebrated Bryant & May mysteries. His other novels include Roofworld, Spanky, The Sand Men and Hot Water. He has also written two acclaimed memoirs, Paperboy (winner of the Green Carnation Prize) and Film Freak, plus The Book of Forgotten Authors and Peculiar London, Bryant and May's singular and eccentric guide to the city. In 2015 Chris was awarded the Crime Writers Association's coveted 'Dagger in the Library' for his body of work. He lived in London and Barcelona. Diagnosed with cancer just as the UK went into lockdown in 2020, Chris died on 2nd March 2023.

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Terry Hayes is a former journalist and multi award-winning screen-writer. He wrote screeplays for, amongst others, Mad Max 2 - Road Warrior, Dead Calm, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Payback, From Hell and Vertical Limit, along with many un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire, Cliffhanger and Flightplan.The Year of the Locust is Terry Hayes' second novel. His first, I Am Pilgrim, was published in many languages and was an international bestseller. He lives with his wife and family in Lisbon.

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Jonathan Kennedy teaches global public health at Queen Mary University of London. He has a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge. His interdisciplinary research has been published in leading medical, public health, sociology and history journals, and he has written for newspapers including the Guardian and El Pais. Pathogenesis is his first book.

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Nicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran Prize, and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her second novel, Disappoint Me, will be released in 2025.

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Alex McCarthy was born in Cardiff and grew up in South Wales. An alumna of London Contemporary Dance School, she worked as a dancer and choreographer for a number of years on stage, TV and film. In 2017, following a career change and several years of writing, Alex began to write this novel. She has a daughter and stepdaughter, and lives in Wales.

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Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist, who was for many years a close collaborator of Stephen Hawking. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is currently professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where he studies the quantum nature of the big bang. He lives with his wife and their four children in Bousval, Belgium.

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Christopher Somerville is the walking correspondent of The Times. He is one of Britain's most respected and prolific travel writers, with forty-two books, hundreds of newspaper articles and many TV and radio appearances to his name.He lives in Bristol.

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Denzil Meyrick is from Campbeltown on the Kintyre Peninsula in Argyll. After studying politics, he enjoyed a varied career as a police officer, distillery manager, and director of several companies. He is the No.1 bestselling author of the DCI Daley series, and is now an executive producer of a major TV adaptation of his books.Denzil lives on Loch Lomondside in Scotland with his wife Fiona and cats. You can find him on Twitter @Lochlomonden, Facebook @DenzilMeyrickAuthor, or on his website: www.denzilmeyrick.com

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Born in 1961, Frank Gardner has been the BBC's Security Correspondent since 2002. He holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In 2004, while filming in Saudi Arabia, he was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times and left for dead. He survived and returned to active news reporting within a year. He still travels extensively. Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank published his bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand, in 2006. His first novel, the thriller Crisis, which introduced readers to SIS operative Luke Carlton, was a No.1 bestseller. The second Luke Carlton thriller, Ultimatum, was also a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, as was the third, Outbreak. Frank Gardner lives in London.

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Paula Daly is the acclaimed author of six novels. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and her books have been developed for the ITV series, DEEP WATER, starring Anna Friel. She was born in Lancashire and lives in the Lake District with her family.

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Rosita Boland is a senior features writer at the Irish Times, specialising in human interest stories. She was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She won 'Journalist of the Year' at the 2018 Newsbrands Ireland journalism awards.

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Stephen Bayley was the person for whom the term "design guru" was coined, something he accepts with what he likes to think of as self-deprecating irony. After a short and blameless period in provincial academe, he joined Terence Conran in an attempt to popularise design. This resulted in The Boilerhouse Project in London's V&A which became the most successful gallery of the eighties. The Boilerhouse evolved into the unique Design Museum which Mrs Thatcher opened in 1989, after some finger wagging and insisting it should not be called a "museum". During this period he learnt a lot about the perversity of genius and the absurdity of ambition. Stephen Bayley has written many books and hundreds of articles which have shaped the popular understanding of design. This is his first attempt at fiction. He is Chairman of The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, an honorary visiting professor at the Liverpool University School of Architecture and a Chevalier de l'Ordre Des Arts et Des

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Carmella Lowkis grew up in Wiltshire and has a degree in English literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, where she was mentored by Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Moss. After graduating, she worked in libraries, before moving into book marketing. Carmella lives in North London with her girlfriend. You can follow her on Twitter @carmellalowkis. Spitting Gold is her first novel.

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Catherine Newman is the author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, and the bestselling children's book How to be a Person. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parents magazine, and many other publications. Her debut novel for adults, We All Want Impossible Things, was chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.

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Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal and Mona of the Manor. He also wrote an acclaimed memoir, Logical Family.Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com

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Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987, and grew up in Salisbury. Upon leaving university he founded the theatre company Up In Arms. He won the Critics' Circle and Offwestend Awards for Most Promising Playwright for his debut full-length play Visitors. He is the Martin Esslin Playwright in Residence at Keble College, Oxford.

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