Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson is a successful competitive surfer and writes for several surfing magazines . His much praised first book Riding the Magic Carpet – A Surfer’s Odyssey to Finding the Perfect Wave (Summersdale, 2006) was followed by Chasing Dean – Surfing America’s Hurricane States (Summersdale, 2009) and in the following year Grey Skies, Green Waves – A Surfer’s Journey Around the UK (Summersdale, 2012). Most recently Tom has turned to fiction with The Actaeon Tide (Parthian, 2014) and a Young...
Mary Atkinson
Mary Atkinson’s involvement with complementary therapies began in the 1980s while working as a healthcare journalist on national magazines. In the mid 1990s she trained to be a practitioner and has qualifications in Holistic Massage, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage and Reflexology. She is now a highly respected tutor and was named Complementary Therapist of the Year 2020 by the Federation of Holistic Therapists. Her first book The Art of Indian Head Massage (Carlton Books) was published in 2000 and since...
Sarah Bartlett
Sarah Bartlett has been the astrologer for Evening Standard, Cosmopolitan, Prima and Spirit and Destiny. Her many books on the esoteric arts include 3 titles on Feng Shui and a number of titles on astrology. Sarah has also written on the tarot The Tarot Bible (Godsfield, 2006 ), and Working with the Tarot (Godsfield, 2010). She has also contributed titles on Mythology (2009) and the Afterlife (2015) to the bestselling Godsfield bible series. Sarah’s Supernatural: the World’s Most Haunted and...
Jonathan Clements
Dr Jonathan Clements is the author of many books about China and Japan, including The Emperor’s Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals, Christ’s Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion, and A Brief History of the Martial Arts. For the National Geographic channel, he has presented three seasons of the award-winning Route Awakening, a TV series about icons of Chinese history and culture, as well as Shandong: Land of Confucius. His Anime: A History was a CHOICE...
Maria Cross
Maria Cross is an experienced nutritionist and health writer. She has an MSc in Public Health Food and Nutrition, and has worked as a university lecturer and tutor, speaker, therapist and author. She now divides her time between consultations and writing. Maria’s first book was an academic text, Nutrition in Institutions (2009). This was followed by I Wish I Hadn’t Eaten That, based on her experience as a nutritional therapist. How to Feed Your Brain is Maria’s latest book. Her interest...
Claire Gillman
Claire Gillman is an experienced journalist, writer and broadcaster. She was the editor of Kindred Spirit magazine; she contributes to many leading women’s magazines and has written on health and parenting for The Times and other national newspapers. In the past, she was the editor of a number of consumer and specialist women’s magazine titles including Health & Fitness magazine and Girl About Town. Claire’s first book Inside the Parachute Regiment (Bloomsbury) was followed by 2 further fitness titles. She...
Sheila Gooddie Estate
Sheila Gooddie was a teacher, bookseller, researcher, and, for more than 25 years, a writer. Her books include The Summers of Shotton co-written with the late Brian Redhead, published by Hodder & Stoughton, Annie Horniman: A Pioneer in the Theatre, published by Methuen and Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel, the story of the daughter of eminent Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, which was published by John Wiley.
Dr Harry Harmer
Harry Harmer‘s particular interest is the late 19th and early 20th century European history. He has studied the history of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler and his PhD involved research into the Communist International and the European Communist parties of which the German was the most significant. He is the author of a number of biographies including that of Friedrich Ebert, the first President of the Weimar Republic and Martin Luther King. He has also written the Longman...
Bill Laws
Bill Laws is a writer and journalist with many years of experience. He worked on a range of newspapers before going freelance and since then has written a number of books on the subjects of walking, Boots, Byways and Blisters (The History Press, 2009); horticultural history 50 Plants that Changed the Course of History (David & Charles, 2010); lifestyle and gardening, Artists’ Gardens (Cassell, 2005); and vernacular architecture The Perfect Country Cottage (Conran Books, 1996) and Home Truths – An...
Dr Sandi Mann
Sandi Mann lectures in Organizational Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire and is a consultant specializing in stress and emotions. She is a regular contributor to various media outlets on these issues, including radio, television and print media. She is the co-author of Would I Lie to You? with Dr Paul Seager and also co-authored This Book Has Feelings – Adventures in the Philosophy and Psychology of your Mind (New Burlington Books 2010) Sandi has written two titles in...
Diana Mather
Diana Mather is an author and educator with an international reputation for excellence. She teaches social and business etiquette around the globe with The English Manner, (a leading Institute offering training in etiquette and protocol) and gives talks on various subjects for The Culture Concierge. She is a member of The Confidence Clinic, an organisation helping companies and individuals build confidence and self-esteem, and is a regular contributor to radio and television programmes, commenting on matters of style, personal presentation, international...
Professor Michael Scott
Professor Michael Scott was Vice-Chancellor of Glyndwr University in North East Wales until March 2015. He is a distinguished literary scholar, having written numerous books and articles and edited two major series for Palgrave Macmillan. His influential Text and Performance series helped spawn Masters programmes in a new approach to Shakespeare Studies in the UK, the USA, Australia and elsewhere. For fourteen years Michael was Visiting Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC which honoured him with the Centennial...
Dr Paul Seager
Dr Paul Seager is senior lecturer in Social and Forensic psychology at the University of Central Lancashire. His main area of interest is the psychology of deception – why people lie, how they lie, and whether we are good at detecting lies. He is the co-author of Would I Lie to You? Deception Detection in Relationships, at Work and in Life . In 2014 Hodder published Paul’s introduction to Social Psychology in its Teach Yourself series.
Sue Stockdale
In EXPLORE: A Life of Adventure, Sue Stockdale the first UK woman to ski to the magnetic North Pole explains why stepping out your comfort zone is key to living a fulfilling life and achieving your potential. Sue’s compelling memoir describes how from challenging beginnings, she embarked on a lifetime of adventure, exploring some of the world’s most extreme environments including the North Pole, Antarctica, and Greenland. Sue shares important life lessons gained from these adventures and describes how the...
Joules Taylor
Graduating from Stirling University with a B.A. Hons in English Studies with Philosophy and Linguistics, Joules Taylor has written on a wide variety of subjects, her works including Celtic history and myths, clairvoyance, crystals and dream interpretation. She enjoys a reputation for carefully researched and lucid writing, particularly exploring ancient traditions with modern applications. From 1994-98 she wrote Astrolog, the astrology feature in Scrumpy, the monthly magazine for Mensa South-West, and her articles on traditional solstice and equinox celebrations have...
Suzi Taylor
Suzi Taylor (writing as Caroline Church) is a sufferer and writer about female mental health issues. She started researching different forms of mental illness during the early part of 2004, particularly PMDD and PND, and discovered purely by chance that her depressive episodes coincided with her menstrual cycle. Suzi also suffered from a severe form of post-natal illness, which then became cyclical. Once she started to research this often misdiagnosed condition, Suzi was astonished to find that many hadn't yet...
Jayne Wallace
Jayne Wallace is the founder and owner of Psychic Sisters, a team of up to 16 clairvoyants and healers working from her concession at Selfridges, London the first and only psychic concession in a department store in the world. Her first book My Psychic Stories was published in 2012 (Godsfield) and tells how Jayne has developed her natural clairvoyant abilities to connect with those in the afterlife. 2014 saw the publication of 44 Ways to Talk to your Angels (Cico...
Christopher Warwick Estate
Christopher Warwick is a writer, biographer, speaker and broadcaster, who regularly takes part in television and radio programmes. His books include best-selling authorized biographies of Princess Margaret and Sir Peter Ustinov. His study, Ella, Princess Saint & Martyr, the definitive life of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia, was released in paperback and e-book format as The Life and Death of ELLA Grand Duchess of Russia – A Romanov Tragedy. Following publication of Ella, Christopher undertook a privately commissioned history...
