Jörg Fauser, born in Germany in 1944, was a novelist, essayist and journalist. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty he spent much of the rest of his working life dependent on alcohol.
Alice Ferney, born in Paris in 1967, studied business management at university and combines her life as a novelist with that of a professor at the University of Orleans.
Dr Andrew Gailey has taught in the history department at Eton College since 1981 and is Vice-Provost of the College. His most recent book is The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity.
Jef Geeraerts was born in 1930 in Antwerp and is Belgium's best known author after Georges Simenon. He gained international acclaim with his "Gangrene Cycle", four novels based on his experience in the Congo.
Mark Girouard is the leading architectural historian of his generation and the author of numerous books, most notably Life in the English Country House which won numerous prizes and sold... Read More
Vaughan Grylls is an artist and writer. He was educated at Goldsmiths and at the Slade and has taught at Reading, Cambridge and at several Colleges and Universities in the USA and the UK.
Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna in 1896. Often referred to as the Swiss Simenon, he died aged forty-two a few days before he was due to be married. Diagnosed a schizophrenic, addicted to morphine...