Laura Barnett (born 1982) [1] is a British journalist, author and theatre critic. [2]
Barnett was educated at Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green, Fulham, London, [3] followed by Spanish and Italian at Clare College, Cambridge, and newspaper journalism at City, University of London. [1] [4]
Barnett has written for The Guardian , The Observer , The Daily Telegraph and Time Out . [5] [1]
In 2014, Barnett published Advice from the Players , collected advice from actors for those hoping to pursue a theatrical career. [5] It is being translated into 14 languages. [5]
Her first novel was The Versions of Us . [6] [5] It sold over 240,000 copies in the UK, and has been translated into 25 languages. [7]
Her second novel is Greatest Hits. [5] [3] Her third will be Salvage. [7]
Barnett is married, and lives in London. [5]
Dame Julia Mary Walters, known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award.
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon was a British photographer. He is best known internationally for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and other major venues. More than 280 of his photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery. From 1968 through 1973, he also made several television documentary films.
Susannah Caroline Constantine is an English former TV fashion journalist, writer, style advisor, television presenter, author and clothes designer. Her second book, What Not to Wear, co-written with her fashion partner Trinny Woodall, won her a British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies.
Rupert William Simon Allason is a British former Conservative Party politician and author. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 to 1997. He writes books and articles on the subject of espionage under the pen name Nigel West.
Paul Bede Johnson was a British journalist, popular historian, speechwriter and author. Although associated with the political left in his early career, he became a popular conservative historian.
The British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by The Bookseller. The awards have had several previous names, owners and sponsors since being launched in 1990, including the National Book Awards from 2010 to 2014.
Lady Margaret School is an all-girls' Church of England secondary school in Parsons Green, Fulham, London. It was awarded specialist school status as a Mathematics & Computing College in September 2003, and became an academy in September 2012. In September 2017 it celebrated its 100th anniversary. Princess Alexandra is patron of the centenary having previously opened the new assembly hall in 1965. Princess Alexandra attended a service to celebrate the centenary of Lady Margaret School at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 17 October 2017. The service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster, John Hall.
Paul Bradley Carr is a British writer, journalist and commentator, based in San Francisco. He has also—as he wrote on his official website—"edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure."
Kathryn Williams is an English singer-songwriter who to date has released 14 studio albums, written and arranged for a multitude of artists, and was nominated for the 2000 Mercury Music Prize.
Carol Drinkwater is a British actress, writer and filmmaker residing in France. She portrayed Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books All Creatures Great and Small, which led to her receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985.
Edward "Ed" Victor was an American literary agent, based, for most of his career, in London, England.
Nicholas Best is a British author of Anglo-Irish origin. He grew up in Kenya and was educated there and in England and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served with the Grenadier Guards in Windsor and Belize and worked in London as a journalist before becoming a full-time author.
Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market. Based in London, it later added a literary fiction list and both a children's list and an upmarket crime list, and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime fiction and suspense, and children's titles.
Christie Watson is a British writer and Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She worked as a nurse for more than twenty years, before becoming an author. She has written six books, including her first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011), which won the Costa First Novel Award, and first memoir The Language of Kindness (2018), which was a number-one Sunday Times Bestseller. Her work has been translated into 23 languages and adapted for theatre. Her latest book Moral Injuries is currently being developed as a television series.
Songs from the Novel 'Greatest Hits' is the 14th studio album by British singer-songwriter, Kathryn Williams and a collaboration with the novelist Laura Barnett based on her second novel Greatest Hits.
John Higgs is an English writer, novelist, journalist and cultural historian. The work of Higgs has been published in the form of novels, biographies and works of cultural history.
Charlotte Collins is a British literary translator of contemporary literature and drama from German.
Alys Conran is a Welsh writer. Her debut novel Pigeon won the Wales Book of the Year in 2017.
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Anthony John Valerian Cheetham is an English book publisher, responsible for establishing several of the UK's major publishing houses, including Century, Orion, Quercus and Head of Zeus.