John Buchan: John Buchan, officially 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born in 1875 in Perth, Scotland and died in 1940 aged only 64 in Montreal, Canada. He was Governor General of Canada until he died in office. His father was a minister...
Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling was the great poet of British Imperialism. He was born in 1865 in Mumbai (then Bombay) British India. He died in London, England in 1936 aged 70. He was named Rudyard because that was the place his...
Megan Taylor Megan is a British author, who has four novels, the latest being We Wait UK link and We Wait USA Link Megan lives in Nottingham, England. She teaches Creative Writing workshops has published four novels: We Wait (the latest, which is a haunted house story), The Woman...
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Themes “As we think in our hearts, so are we.” (Proverbs, 23.7) The Twins Most cultures have a fascination with the phenomenon of twins. Jekyll and Hyde can be understood to be a strange type of...
Robert Louis Stevenson R L Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenons in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died aged only 44 in Samoa. He was phenomenally successful in his time and is still remembered for such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and of...
Alex Boast Alex Boast is a young British writer, born in Ipswich, raised in Surrey and living in London. He has an MA in Creative Writing and is constantly improving his skills by writing on Medium and Quora as well as doing Master Class courses...
L T C Rolt Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt, was an English writer born in 1910 and who died in 1974, therefore for us, he’s a recent writer! He was a prolific writer who had an interest in engineering and that shows...
Guy Boothby Guy Boothby was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1867 and died in Bournemouth, England in 1905. At the time of his birth South Australia was a recently established British colony and his father’s family were important administrators and legislators...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Or to give him his full name, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh in Scotland and he died in Crowborough, Sussex, England aged 71. His family name was just Doyle and Conan...
Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken was an American poet and author born in Savannah, Georgia in 1889 and died in Savannah in 1973 aged 84. His family were wealthy, originally from New England, but his father was an eye surgeon who moved...