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Gerti Baldwin
Gerti Baldwin was born in Vienna in 1941. Spending her earlier years in poverty with her mother and siblings, after formal education she had various jobs including tailoring and office work.From childhood on she liked to read and write. Her first title, Nico and sein Drache was written in German and published in 2007 in Vienna. She wrote an English version of this book in 2017, coupled with the book In Mysterious Way, both under the pen name Geri Stone. There is also a German version of her current book, The Other Heaven Can Wait.Growing ...
Susan Battersby
Susan Battersby was born on the 10th of October 1957 in Manchester, England. She achieved her A-Levels at Senior School. She is a professional Finance/Management Accountant. Susan is married to Richard who she met while on holiday in Venezuela in August 2000 and hence her relocation to Sheffield. She and her husband both have a passion for travel and they have travelled around the world together. Since they met in 2000 Susan and Richard have travelled to 108 countries and many other territories, islands and dependencies. They do not have ...
Manfred Baumann
Over the past few years, Viennese photographer Manfred Baumann has become one of the most influential photographers of his time. His passion for photography began as a child at the age of 10 when his grandfather gave him his first camera a PRAKTIKA.His grandfather, who worked as a photographer himself, was the inspirational figure for Manfred. After he developed a feeling for landscape photography, this is what he concentrated on in his first years. Baumanns path to becoming an internationally known photographer wasnt a smooth one. After ...
Stephen Bennett
After a childhood spent in Egypt and Jordan, Stephen joined the Royal Navy and specialised as a hydrographic surveyor. He served in Antarctica, the Middle East, and the Far East, the Caribbean and European waters. He saw action in two wars and commanded two ships and a specialist naval school before retiring after thirty-five years’ service, the last ten of which were based in Arabia. Stephen subsequently returned to Oman for six years to manage a private company for a member of the Omani royal family before joining a Paris-based ...
Lara Bernardi
Lara Bernardi is a business economist FH, spiritual teacher, and mother of three girls. She has written numerous specialist articles for business magazines and is the author of several books and a business meditation CD. As a spiritual teacher, she counsels holistically using her clear-sightedness and clarity. Additionally, Lara offers training in mediumship, spiritual counseling, and new methods of healing as well as numerous seminars on how to become happy and healthy.Since childhood, she has been conscious of the immaterial realms. She ...
C.P. Bird
C.P. Bird was born in 1969 in Nottingham, UK. He studied for 2’O’ levels in English Language and Literature. He spent 35 years in retail and 25 years in Health and Beauty Retail. He became interested in reading any kind of book from a young age. Reading became his form of escape which fed his vivid imagination and carried him through his school years. It was only two years ago that he decided to follow his dream and write his manuscript. C.P. Bird hopes to encourage people to follow their dreams, to trust in their abilities and to take a leap ...
Bridie Blackett
Bridie Blackett is an up and coming new poet. Treasured, a collection of beautifully written poems, will be her first book. Born in Dryburn, she is 32 years old and a self-employed mother of three. Soon to be married to her fiancé, Rory Red Hodgson, they currently live with their family in Sunderland. As well as writing poetry, Bridie works as a full time child minder. When she does get spare time, she loves keeping fit, eating out and most importantly, spending time with her family.
Alan Blackwood
Alan Blackwood is the author of numerous books and features on music, including a biography of the famous British conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham. More recently he has turned his skills to writing fiction. Many of his very short stories (or flash fiction) have already appeared in print. He is also completing his first novel.
Jane Bowen
Jane Bowen was born in Scotland after the Second World War. She attended Schools in Dumbarton, Glasgow, and Bolton, before reading History at the University of London, and training as a teacher at Cambridge. Jane taught in Bedford, Hertfordshire and Isle of Man before she became headmistress of a school in North Yorkshire.From there she returned to Scotland to join the Schools Inspectorate where she was involved in a range of initiatives among the most interesting of which was contributing to an inspection of Child Protection ...
D. W. Bradley
D. W. Bradley has lived in North Yorkshire for over thirty years but was born in 1950 in Lincoln, where he spent his childhood. After failing his eleven-plus exams, he transferred to a grammar school at the age of twelve and was selected for a place at the National Youth Theatre. He went on to train in drama at Bretton Hall, a prestigious institution for budding performers and teachers. Bradley found his niche teaching drama and was a secondary school headteacher for twenty years. His passions include the theatre, cricket, lecturing and ...
Andrew Braeman
Andrew Braeman was born in Mitcham, Surrey. He began a career in electronic repair in 1979, which has progressed into telecommunications. He is currently a senior radio engineer for Sussex and Surrey police.He has lived on the south-east coast of England since 1998 since which time his interest in the paranormal has grown. He is now a member of the Society for Psychical Research. He has previously written short stories in the paranormal genre for the entertainment of friends. The Stonypool Curse is his first novel.Andrew got married in ...
Valerie Braithwaite
Valerie Braithwaite is a talented author and educator with a passion for exploring issues of race, identity and origin. Valerie grew up with a love of swimming and art and design.She is a graduate of Teaching and Education at Leeds Beckett University and works as a trainee teacher at Leeds City College, where she shares her passion for education and inspires her students to achieve their full potential.Her first children’s book, Mistaken Identity – The Story of Tallulah, explores the complexities of race, identity and growing up in a world ...
Christian Braun
Ronald Brooks
Ron Brooks was born on 14 November 1938, less than ten months before the outbreak of World War Two, which then lasted six years. Their house was close to Filton Airfield, Bristol Docks, and Avonmouth Docks, all prime target zones for the Nazis. His dad was conscripted in 1940 and sent abroad for almost five years, immediately after compassionate leave following the very difficult birth of Ron’s brother Peter. Peter was born on Sunday 13 April 1941 during the horrific Easter bombings. Ron has clear memories of their ceilings coming down, ...
Eleonora Georgeta Bulz
Born in a small city in Romania in 1955, Eleonora Georgeta Bulz grew up spending her holidays visiting her grandparents in a small village at the base of a mountain. She enjoyed the freedom of roaming the hills, mountains, and forests close by and spent lots of time connected to nature. She worked as head of reception and then manageress in a hotel and thereafter became a care assistant in a nursing home. After the revolution in Romania in 1989, Bulz was driven by her passion and started an animal charity. Bulz is divorced and currently ...
Diane Valerie Burgess
Diane Valerie Burgess was born in Birmingham in 1970. She has worked at British Rail, the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and is the lead vocalist in a Carpenters tribute band.At twenty-seven, Diane was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis, which caused her right hand to become deformed, and in 2021, she suffered a stroke, which paralysed her left hand. Despite this, Diane is still able to write poetry, her favourite pastime. In September 2022, Diane’s life took on a new direction when married the first man she has ever loved.