Luca di Fulvio, born in 1957, lives and works in Rome. He is a much acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and playwright. The Mannequin Man is his first crime novel. His self-avowed schizophrenic nature...
Rolo Diez, born in Argentina in 1940, was imprisoned for two years during the military dictatorship and forced into exile. He now lives in Mexico City, where he works as a novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
Garry Disher grew up in South Australia. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short-story collection.
Richard Dorment, OBE, was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art before moving to London where he was a free-lance exhibition organiser and author before joining the Daily Telegraph as art critic in 1986. He retired in 2015.
Jörg Fauser, born in Germany in 1944, was a novelist, essayist and journalist. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty he spent much of the rest of his working life dependent on alcohol.
Alice Ferney, born in Paris in 1967, studied business management at university and combines her life as a novelist with that of a professor at the University of Orleans.
Dr Andrew Gailey has taught in the history department at Eton College since 1981 and is Vice-Provost of the College. His most recent book is The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity.
Jef Geeraerts was born in 1930 in Antwerp and is Belgium's best known author after Georges Simenon. He gained international acclaim with his "Gangrene Cycle", four novels based on his experience in the Congo.
Mark Girouard is the leading architectural historian of his generation and the author of numerous books, most notably Life in the English Country House which won numerous prizes and sold... Read More