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A Staircase in Surrey is a series of contemporary novels by Scottish novelist J.I.M. Stewart (aka Michael Innes). The novels are set in a fictional college in Oxford University (where the author once studied). The “staircase” in the title refers to the students’ rooms in the college. The novels focus on Duncan Patullo, a playwright, […]

Michael Innes is the pseudonym of Scottish author John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994), who wrote crime fiction as Michael Innes and contemporary fiction and non-fiction as J.I.M. Stewart. He is the author of the Inspector Appleby series. Stewart was born in Edinburgh, where he also grew up. He studied at several different universities all over […]

Judith Michael is the collective pen name of Judith Barnard and Michael Fain, a husband-and-wife writing team of romance and contemporary fiction novels. Barnard has worked as a journalist, biographer, editor and educational film writer. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and her Master’s from Northwestern University. Michael Fain has been a […]

Penny Vincenzi is a British author of contemporary fiction and romance novels. She is the author of the Spoils of Time trilogy. She began writing when she was nine years old, writing three copies of her own magazine by hand on carbon paper. Before becoming a published author, Penny worked at the Harrods Library in […]

Donna Tartt is an American author of literary fiction. She has written the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend and The Goldfinch. Donna has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 and the WH Smith Literary Award in 2003. She was also named one of the Time’s 100 Most Influential People in […]