1 Feb 2011 
Catherine Cookson was a British writer who was born in South Shields in Tyneside on 17th June 1906 as Catherine Ann McMullen and sadly died in Newcastle upon Tyne on 11th June 1998 at the age of 91. Being the illegitimate child of an alcoholic named Kate Fawcett she was raised by Rose and John McMullen, her grandparents, believing that her biological mother was her sister.
At the age of 34 she married Tom... read more
Catherine Cookson
1 Feb 2011 
American author Dan Brown was born in New Hampshire in 1964. His first three novels – Digital Fortress, Deception Point, and Angels and Demons received little success, and it wasn’t until his forth novel that people started taking notice of his work.
Brown is best known for the 2003 The Da Vinci Code. This best selling novel has been translated into well over 40 languages around the world, and... read more
Dan Brown
1 Feb 2011 
C J Sansom was born in 1952 and studied history at the University of Birmingham. He then trained and worked as a solicitor before beginning his literary output in earnest. His Shardlake series of novels mix history – namely the reign of Henry VIII and 16th century England – with the detective genre and using real historical figures and locations, he creates a new cocktail of historical crime... read more
C J Sansom
1 Feb 2011 
Agatha Christie is the best selling author of all time. Two billion copies of her novels have been published worldwide and translated into over forty languages. Born in 1890, Christie had her first novel, The Mysterious Affair At Styles published in 1921.
In the tradition of Poe’s Dupin and Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Christie managed to create two much loved genius sleuths in Hercule Poirot... read more
Agatha Christie
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