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This event brings together three authors who have a wealth of experience between them. During this session each will talk about their latest work from the perspective of the people that make their novels possible...the characters that carry the story.

Alix Nathan was born in London and educated there and at York University where she read English and Music. She has lived in Norwich, Munich, Philadelphia, Birkenhead and now in the Welsh Marches where, with her husband, she owns some ancient woodland. She has published three children?s books and written about Christina Rossetti and the 18th century writer and notorious beauty Mary Robinson. Since 2006 she has been writing adult fiction, both contemporary and historical. Her latest novel is Sea Change.

Annie Garthwaite grew up in a working class community in the north-east of England. A schoolgirl interest in medieval history became a lifelong obsession with Cecily Neville, so, at age fifty-five, she enrolled on the Warwick Writing MA programme. Her extraordinary debut novel Cecily is the result. During a thirty-year international business career she frequently found herself the only woman at the table, where she gained valuable insights into how a woman like Cecily might have operated. Today she lives with her partner ? and far too many animals ? on the side of a green Shropshire hill close to the Yorkist stronghold of Ludlow.

Kate Innes was born in London and raised in America by South African parents. But she fell in love with Britain sometime between being born and being transported to Connecticut as a toddler, and returned at the earliest opportunity. Kate spent a year working on archaeological digs around Europe before starting a degree in Archaeology followed by a PGCE in Religious Education and English. Full of youthful enthusiasm, she set out for Zimbabwe to teach in rural secondary schools for two years. This forced her to grow up very quickly! It was there that Kate met her future husband who was working as a doctor in the Zambezi Valley. The third novel in the Arrowsmith series will be published late this year.

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Castle Gates,

Shrewsbury,

Shropshire,

England,

SY1 2AS.