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Laurie Graham (born 25 November 1947) is an English journalist, radio scriptwriter and novelist. She lives in London. [1]
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Laurie Graham (born 25 November 1947) is an English journalist, radio scriptwriter and novelist. She lives in London. [1]
Graham was born in Leicester. She is an occasional contributor to The Spectator . She wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph newspapers from 1987 to 1991. She was also Contributing Editor to She magazine and Cosmopolitan . Graham has written twenty two novels and several volumes of non-fiction. [2] Graham is published by Quercus in the United Kingdom. [3]
Quercus robur, the pedunculate oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native to most of Europe and western Asia, and is widely cultivated in other temperate regions. It grows on soils of near neutral acidity in the lowlands and is notable for its value to natural ecosystems, supporting a very wide diversity of herbivorous insects and other pests, predators and pathogens.
Quercus petraea, commonly known as the sessile oak, Cornish oak, Irish Oak or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is the national tree of Ireland, and an unofficial emblem in Wales and Cornwall.
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