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Elaine C Smith

Elaine C. Smith is one of Scotland's best-loved entertainers, an actress, comedienne, writer and columnist. From 2008, she has toured in the hit play Calendar Girls, which also had a hugely successful run in London's West End, and is about to take over the lead role in the current tour in autumn 2010.

Elaine C Smith

CLAMP

CLAMP is a group of four women who have become one of the most popular manga artists in the world - Satsuki Igarashi, Mick Nekoi, Mokona Apapa and Nanase Ohkawa. They started out as doujnishi (fan comics) creators, but their skill and craft brought them to the attention of publishers very quickly. Their first work from a major publisher was RG Veda, but their first mass success was with Magic Knight Rayearth. From there, they went on to write many series, including Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits, two of the most popular manga in the United States. Like many Japanese manga artists, they prefer to avoid the spotlight, and little is known about them personally.

CLAMP

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Matt Cain

Matt Cain was born in Bury and brought up in Bolton. He spent ten years making arts and entertainment programmes for ITV before stepping in front of the camera in 2010 to become Channel 4 News’ first ever culture editor. His first novel, Shot Through the Heart, was published in 2014 and his second, Nothing But Trouble, followed in 2015. As a journalist he's contributed articles to all the major UK newspapers and in 2017 was voted Diversity in Media's Journalist of the Year. In Spring 2018 he stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of Attitude, the UK's biggest-selling magazine for gay men. He lives in London. @mattcainwriter mattcainwriter.com www.mattcainwriter.com/@mattcainwriter

Matt Cain

Julian Caldecott

Julian Caldecott is an ecologist who has worked as a senior consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, focusing on environmental disaster management. His work throughout the developing world has included environmental education, ethnobiology and sustainable ecosystem management. He is the author of Deep Water and the co-author/editor of the World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation.

Julian Caldecott

Dominic Calder-Smith

Dominic Calder-Smith writes regularly on boxing for newspapers and magazines. He is the author of Tarnished Armour - Hopes & Fears in Heavyweight Boxing.

Dominic Calder-Smith

Pepper de Callier

Born and raised in the farmland of the Midwestern United States, Pepper became interested in leadership, human potential, and common sense at age seven. He became a senior advisor to the former President of the Czech Republic, Va´clav Havel, founding the Prague Leadership Institute, writing a syndicated column on leadership in the financial dailies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and co-founding Aspen Institute Central Europe. He was voted Best Corporate Leadership Coach-Europe by London-based AI Media. Having had a somewhat unusual life experience-high school drop-out, barber, insurance salesman, magazine publisher, graduating university (finally!), becoming a partner in the world's respected executive search firm, advising leaders around the world, retiring at age 55, moving to Europe - Pepper has seen life, and people, from a number of different perspectives and learned first-hand the value of common sense (sometimes painfully). Today, Pepper lives in Prague.

Pepper de Callier

Claire Calman

Claire Calman is the author of four novels, Love is a Four Letter Word, Lessons For a Sunday Father, I Like it Like That and Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, all published by Black Swan. Calman first decided to write a book when she discovered that it mainly involved making cups of tea and gazing out of the window. It was some time before a real writer friend pointed out that if she were to select an assortment of words and arrange them in some kind of order, this would speed up the process no end. Spurred on by this invaluable hint, she wrote Love is a Four Letter Word, a funny yet poignant story of love and loss. Before she got into daydreaming full time, Calman spent several years working in women's magazines, then in book publishing, editing gardening books. She is also a poet and broadcaster and has performed her pithy verse at live readings and on radio many times, including for BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, Loose Ends, the comedy series Five Squeezy Pieces and for LBC. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines as well as in various anthologies, including Cheatin' Heart, the best-selling Girls' Night In, Summer Magic and A Day in the Life. Claire Calman lives in London with her husband, son, and an unbelievable amount of unfiled paperwork.

Claire Calman

Ben Cameron

Ben Cameron is an artist living and working on Rochester, England. His work ranges from doodles to large scale, highly detailed illustrations. He works under the name Strange Paul and is often cited as creating the ‘world’s saddest doodle’. He is a regular contributor to WOW magazine.

Ben Cameron

Joni Cameron-Blair

Joni Cameron-Blair is a whistleblower and campaigner against the corruption in the children’s care system. As a child she was the victim of horrific, violent abuse at the hands of her father, and was subsequently incarcerated in Beechwood Children's Home. There she experienced hell on earth, so as an adult became a care home inspector to fight the corruption from within. Unfortunately she found that the problems ran so deep, that she is still fighting to make her voice heard today. Joni continues to live and work in Nottingham, and is the proud mother of three daughters and two granddaughters.

Joni Cameron-Blair

Lindsay Camp

Tony Ross was born in London and trained at the Liverpool School of Art. He has worked as a cartoonist, graphic designer, and art director of an advertising agency. He is now considered to be one of the finest children's illustrators in the country.

Lindsay Camp

David Campbell

David G. Campbell is an ecologist and explorer who has carried out research on all seven continents, most notably in the Amazonian rainforests and in Antarctica. He is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Nations and the Global Environment at Grinnell College, Iowa. The Crystal Desert, Campbell's book about the Antarctic Peninsula, was published by Cape in 1993.

David Campbell

Robin Campbell

Ali and Robin Campbell were born and brought up in 1960's Birmingham and went on to lead one of pop/reggae music legends UB40 with record sales in excess of £50 million.

Robin Campbell

Ali Campbell

Ali and Robin Campbell were born and brought up in 1960's Birmingham and went on to lead one of pop/reggae music legends UB40 with record sales in excess of £50 million.

Ali Campbell

Ellie Campbell

Ellie Campbell is a pseudonym for sister writing-duo Pam Burks and Lorraine Campbell. The two sisters were raised in Scotland until as teens their parents moved the family down to Sussex. Between them they have had over 140 short stories published in magazines. Pam now lives in Surrey with her husband and three children where she divides her time between writing, family, her allotment, a part-time job and chasing down her writing partner and big sister, Lorraine. After sailing the Carribean as a Charter Cook, Lorraine finally settled in Colorado with a husband, three horses and a dog. Their debut novel was How to Survive Your Sisters.

Ellie Campbell

Christy Campbell

Christy Campbell is a writer and journalist. He is a former defence correspondent and feature writer for the Sunday Telegraph, which he joined on the eve of the first Gulf War. His book, Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World, won the Glenfiddich-GQ Drink Book of the Year Award 2005.

Christy Campbell

Emma Mieko Candon

Emma Mieko Candon, novelist and literal cyborg, is an escaped academic with a background in hungry ghosts, internet identities, and brain stuff. She received her psychology MA from Teachers College, Columbia University and strives to use it for good while writing kick-punching science fantasy. Find her by day editing light novels for Seven Seas, working on her upcoming novel at Tor.com, and making noises about monsters and robots.

Emma Mieko Candon

Kate Carr

Kate Carr is a freelance writer and freelance Books Editor for Good Housekeeping magazine. She is currently studying Psychology at Birkbeck and has two children (aged 9 and 12).

Kate Carr

Michael Carr-Gregg

Michael Carr-Greg is an adolescent psychologist, a well-respected speaker and one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour. In 1985 he founded CanTeen, the acclaimed cancer patients' support group for teenagers in New Zealand and Australia.

Michael Carr-Gregg

Dora Carrington

Dora Carrington was born in 1893 in Hereford. At seventeen she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, part of an extraordinary generation of painters including Mark Gertler and Paul and John Nash. She painted her friends, her house, her animals, her furniture and designed jackets for books published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press. She was the long-time companion of writer Lytton Strachey, though in 1921 she married Ralph Partridge, who joined her and Lytton in a largely harmonious ménage à trois. In 1932, after the death of Strachey to cancer, she committed suicide, aged thirty-eight.

Dora Carrington

Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a Sunday Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life as a Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov (winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot), The Mustache and, most recently, The Kingdom.

Emmanuel Carrère

Graham Carter

Graham Carter is a printmaker with a huge following who is stepping into the world of picture books. His illustrations can be spotted in a wide variety of publications such as The New Scientist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times. Graham lives Seaford with his wife and son, and can often be found printing, sketching and making a mess in his studio in Brighton.

Graham Carter

Philip Carter

Philip Carter is the author or co-author of over one hundred titles for adults and children, including Take the IQ Challenge and The Ultimate IQ Book. His books have been translated into several languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian and Rumanian. He lives in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Philip Carter

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