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Fenella Gentleman studied at Wadham College, Oxford, and was in the first wave of female students. Her novel ‘The Reading Party’ is the the first to deal with Oxford’s male dominated institutions opening their doors to women. It’s a moving an insightful exploration of a woman in a man’s world.
Claire Legrand is a librarian and the author of several novels for children and teens. She is the author of The Empirium Trilogy, which follows two fiercely independent queens. Claire wanted to create a landscape in which the characters reflected the world she saw, where complex bi-sexual heroines, female sexuality, and minority and LGBTQ characters are celebrated. Book 2 in the series is out now called ‘Kingsbane’
Kim Nash is the PR and Social Media Manager for Bookouture, and is a book blogger. She runs a book club, and won the Romantic Novelist’s Association Media Star of the Year in 2016, and is now delighted to be a member of the RNA. Her debut novel ‘Amazing Grace’ is about Grace who thought she had it all…until one fateful day when she walked in on her husband Mark kissing his secretary.