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| Bernard Long | |
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| Born | 1926 |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Artist |
Bernard Long (born 1926) was a British book illustrator and comic artist who contributed many episodes of "Fliptail the Otter" to Jack and Jill in the 1970s.
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| Bernard Long | |
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| Born | 1926 |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Artist |
Bernard Long (born 1926) was a British book illustrator and comic artist who contributed many episodes of "Fliptail the Otter" to Jack and Jill in the 1970s.
Peter Duff Hart-Davis, generally known as Duff Hart-Davis is a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who writes for The Independent newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter, the journalist Alice Hart-Davis. He lives at Owlpen, in Gloucestershire.
Alan Fred Titchmarsh HonFSE is an English gardener, broadcaster, TV presenter, poet, and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a gardening journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on television gardening programmes. He has developed a diverse writing and broadcasting career.
David John Morris is a British author of gamebooks, novels and comics and a designer of computer games and role-playing games.
Hamish MacInnes was a Scottish mountaineer, explorer, mountain search and rescuer, and author. He has been described as the "father of modern mountain rescue in Scotland". He is credited with inventing the first all-metal ice-axe and an eponymous lightweight foldable alloy stretcher called MacInnes stretcher, widely used in mountain and helicopter rescue. He was a mountain safety advisor to a number of major films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail,The Eiger Sanction and The Mission. His 1972 International Mountain Rescue Handbook is considered a manual in the mountain search and rescue discipline.
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Eric Earle Shipton, CBE, was an English Himalayan mountaineer.
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.
Grug is an Australian fictional character appearing in a series of children's books by the author Ted Prior. They were published between 1979 and 1992 by Hodder & Stoughton, Australia and have now been republished by Simon & Schuster, Australia from 1 June 2009. Three new books have also been published since 1992.
Robert Tillman Kendall is a Christian writer, speaker, and teacher who pastored Westminster Chapel for 25 years. He is author of more than 50 books, including Total Forgiveness. Kendall was part of the Word, Spirit, Power team, a non-denominational charismatic ministry.
Raynor Carey Johnson was an English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author.
Lisa Webb GM is a former nursery teacher. On 8 July 1996, her class at St Luke's Primary School in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, England, was attacked by a man with severe paranoid schizophrenia wielding a machete.
Sheridan Morley was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster. He was the official biographer of Sir John Gielgud and wrote biographies of many other theatrical figures he had known, including Noël Coward. Nicholas Kenyon called him a "cultural omnivore" who was "genuinely popular with people".
Hesba Fay Brinsmead was an Australian author of children's books and an environmentalist.
Geoffrey Moorhouse, FRGS, FRSL was an English journalist and author. He was born Geoffrey Heald in Bolton and took his stepfather's surname. He attended Bury Grammar School. He began writing as a journalist on the Bolton Evening News. At the age of 27, he joined The Manchester Guardian where he eventually became chief feature writer and combined writing books with journalism.
Dudley Allen Doust was an American-born sports journalist and author who in addition to publishing a number of books wrote for The Kansas City Star, Time and The Sunday Times.
Patrick Lawrence Chapman was an English food writer, broadcaster and author, best known for founding The Curry Club.
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Phyllis Arkle, was an English author of children's books.
Rupert Oliver Matthews is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2021. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands from June 2017 until his term ended on 1 July 2019, and has authored books on the paranormal.
Betty Rowlands was a writer of cosy crime mystery novels set in the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire.
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