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James Fearnle, writer and musician

James was born in Manchester and played guitar in various band before becoming the accordion player with The Pogues. His book ‘Here Comes Everybody’ was reviewed on Roseland online last month. He...

Jasper Fforde

It’s very difficult to get an interview with Jasper Fforde, but I met up with him briefly at the launch of his latest book ‘The Woman Who Died A Lot’ The good...

Tony Parsons, popular novellist

Novelist and newspaper columnist Tony Parsons has already achieved success as a multi-million selling author of novels including Man and Boy (1999), One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife(2003), The Family...

Patrick Gale, Penzance based author

As well as writing fiction, Patrick has written for television and published a biography of Armistead Maupin. On Twitter, he describes himself as a “gardener, cellist, cook, whippet-walker and, when time allows,...

Jutta Profijt, German author

Jutta was born between Düsseldorf, which she describes as “a town nobody outside Germany knows” and Cologne, “a town people from Düsseldorf hate – not only because it’s more famous”. She has...

Virginia Nicholson

Given Virginia’s literary pedigree, the obvious place to start is with the question, have you always wanted to be a writer? “I used to write fairy stories when I was little, but...

Tony Berry, author of From Paupers to iPads

Tony Berry is hard to pin down, whether at home in Australia or at home in Cornwall, so, having read his book and a little of his story in the West Briton,...

Paul Holmes, author of A Man Derailed

I reviewed this book for Roseland online back in 2009 and I was keen to find out what’s happened since and what Paul is working on now. “My book was really about...

Simon Tofield, Simon’s Cat Author at Film Premiere

01.11.11: I was fortunate enough to attend the recent première of Double Trouble in Leicester Square, when the new book was launched. As well as being able to watch three of his...

Danny Bent

By way of background, Danny (a teacher and former Marketing director of the National Quadrathlon squad) explained that he and his sister, Natalie (a graduate of Falmouth University and now a locally...