Elliott Colla divides his time between Washington DC and the Middle East. He is a professor and translator of Arabic literature. 'Baghdad Central' is his first novel.
Harriet Crawley has been a journalist, writer, and art dealer, worked in television and radio, and she stood for the Westminster and European Parliaments. She speaks five languages and The Translator is her fifth book.
Keir Davidson is a landscape historian and a landscape planner. He has written on Japanese gardens and is the author of ‘Woburn Abbey: the Park and Gardens’.
Luca di Fulvio, born in 1957, lives and works in Rome. He is a much acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and playwright. The Mannequin Man is his first crime novel. His self-avowed schizophrenic nature...
Rolo Diez, born in Argentina in 1940, was imprisoned for two years during the military dictatorship and forced into exile. He now lives in Mexico City, where he works as a novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
Garry Disher grew up in South Australia. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short-story collection.
Richard Dorment, OBE, was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art before moving to London where he was a free-lance exhibition organiser and author before joining the Daily Telegraph as art critic in 1986. He retired in 2015.