CWC Authors

Adrienne Dines

After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, Adrienne moved to the UK to teach in Weybridge, Surrey.  With her husband, she moved to Aberdeen for ten years before returning to Weybridge to stay.  A chance encounter with an old friend took her to a writing workshop where, by accident, her writing career began. 

Three sons and three published novels later she is now established as an after dinner speaker and tutor in the afternoons and evenings  - the mornings are for writing the stories.  She has also written a play that was dramatised in Dec 2007 and had several articles and short stories published in Ireland and the UK.

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Linda Gillard

Linda graduated from Bristol University, then trained as an actress at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Whilst under-employed at the National Theatre, Linda developed a sideline as a freelance journalist. She ran two careers concurrently for a while, then gave up acting to raise a family and write from home.
Twelve years later, she re-trained as a primary teacher and taught in Norfolk for some years. She downshifted to the Isle of Skye where she lived for six years.

Linda now lives near Glasgow and writes full-time. She also teaches workshops and gives talks. A fourth novel is completed and Linda is now working on a fifth.

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Catherine King

I was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and write books about the hardships of that area during the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century.  Before I became a full time author I had an academic career in the south of England and maintain my contacts there as well as my writing base in the north.

I write romantic historical novels for Sphere, which is a commercial imprint of Little, Brown.  My books are published in hardback, paperback, large print and audio formats.  I am currently working on my fifth title.

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Beryl Kingston

Born in 1931, wartime childhood, evacuated twice but was in London during the Blitz, the buzzbombs and the V2’s. Read English at KCL. Met the love of my life when I was just sixteen and married him three years later. Three children, a son and two daughters who are the nicest things in shoe leather and five grandchildren (aged 19 to 28) who are the apples of my eye. Full time writer.

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Agnes Meadows

AGNES MEADOWS currently lives in London, has been a journalist, freelance arts consultant and fundraiser, and is now a Performance Poet.  She has been gypsying around the world since she was 15, making her home in places as diverse as Mexico, the Philippines, Australia and Turkey.  Agnes has an established reputation on the Performance Poetry scene both in the UK, and internationally. 

Agnes is passionate about travel, writing, chocolate, and Johnny Depp, not always in that order.

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Sue Moorcroft

Sue Moorcroft is a working writer. STARTING OVER (Choc Lit) is her third novel and she's sold over a hundred short stories, articles and several serials to magazines.

LOVE WRITING – How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction (Accent Press) is her first ‘how to’ book although she had already written courses for the London School of Journalism. Sue’s a creative writing tutor for distance learning and residential courses and is a guest tutor for the University of Leicester, Northampton Centre.

Born in Moenchengladbach into an Army family, brought up in Germany, Cyprus and Malta as well as the United Kingdom, Sue still enjoys travelling. When not writing she reads, walks, watches Formula 1 or learns the piano.

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Nicola Slade

I wrote for children while my own three were growing up, then turned to women's magazines for a number of years. My first novel, Scuba Dancing, was a romantic comedy praised for its sensitivity, humour and wit. With my second novel, Murder Most Welcome, I turned to ‘cosy’ historical crime and my third novel, Death is the Cure, continues this theme.
I am a reader for the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers’ Scheme and have wide experience of appraising manuscripts; I’ve also run workshops for aspiring short-story writers and I do talks to various groups.
As well as writing, I’m a founder member of a local art group; I’ve been a Brown Owl and an antiques dealer. I live in Hampshire with a husband, two cats and family living nearby.

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Allie Spencer

After gaining a BA in English Literature and an MA in Medieval Studies, I qualified as a barrister and spent a number of years practising Family and Divorce Law.  My first novel, which drew on my experiences at the junior end of the Bar, was published by Little Black Dress (Headline) in October 2009. I enjoy cinema, theatre and, of course, reading and am married with young children. I am currently working on my third novel.

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Rebecca Tope

Lives in Herefordshire, on a smallholding. First published in 1999, with seventeen titles to her credit and another due Sept 2010. Seven of these are in the Cotswolds murder series, three are Rosemary and Thyme novels and the rest are in the first two crime series.

My days are spent writing, spinning, tending the animals, gardening, reading, and playing computer games. I travel a lot, and have just had a wonderful trip to Syria with my oldest friend, Liz. I also play Bridge, and am writing a biography of Sabine Baring-Gould, great Victorian clergyman.

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Sally Zigmond

I am married with two grown-up sons. My husband and I live in a converted Methodist chapel in a village in the North York Moors National Park where sheep outnumber people by about five to one.

I write every day even if it’s just updating my blog or having a gossip on a writers’ forum. I love my garden which began this year from scratch and am enjoying seeing what grows—and what doesn’t in the rather ‘difficult’ climate here. I am also a member of the local history society. 

I have judged short story competitions, run writing workshops, worked as submissions editor for a literary magazine and written articles about writing and publishing.

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Frank Burton

I am a fiction writer and performance poet.  My work has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Australia and USA, and has been showcased on BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Reading. 

I was born in Lancashire in 1979, and started writing from an early age. In 2008 I completed my MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, which I passed with Distinction. 

Winner of the 2003 Philip LeBrun Prize for Creative Writing

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