Anne Somerset
Anne Somerset was born in England in 1955 and educated in London, Gloucestershire, and Kent. After studying history at King's College, London, she worked as a research assistant for various historians. She is the author of Glitteringly detailed ... [... more]
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Roman Baths, UK
Don and the Burke's Backyard team travelled to the city of Bath, in Somerset. The city is famous for its Roman Baths and natural thermal spring. It is also known for its Georgian architecture, which has received UNESCO World Heritage Site status. ... [... more]
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Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson is a bestselling author in Britain, second only to J. K. Rowling. Jacqueline Wilson is the author of award-winning books, including Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in ... [... more]
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Paul Strathern
Paul Strathern studied philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lectured in philosophy and mathematics and is a Somerset Maugham Prize-winning novelist. He is the bestselling author of several books of nonfiction, including the series ... [... more]
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Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher's novels include Kitchen Venom, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Mulberry Empire, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His latest novel, The Northern Clemency, was short-listed for the Man Booker. Chosen by ... [... more]
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Giles Foden
Giles Foden was born in England in 1967 and grew up in Africa. The author of three novels, he works on the books pages of The Guardian. In 1998 he won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Giles Foden's The Last King of ... [... more]
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger, and four genre-defying books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle ... [... more]
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Helen Simpson
Helen Simpson is the author of three collections of short stories, Getting a Life, Four Bare Legs in a Bed (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award) and Dear George, as well as one novel, Flesh and Grass. She lives in London with her husband and two ... [... more]
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Ryan Lavelle
The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early Medieval history. While the guerrilla warfare in the Somerset marshes and the battle of Edington ... [... more]
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and ... [... more]
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Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson is the author of Seamanship, Sea Room, God's Secretaries, and, most recently, Seize the Fire, about Admiral Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar. He has won both the Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann awards. The son of Nigel ... [... more]
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