Inspira Group Authors
Michael G. R. Tolkien is a freelance lecturer, writer and workshop organiser. Michael has published various poetry collections and his verse and reviews have appeared in many magazines including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, Poetry Nottingham and Tears in the Fence. Michael's latest poetry collection entitled
No Time for Roses
is published by Poetry Salzburg, and his children's story
WISH
which is written in verse and narrated by Gerald Dickens, is available as an audio book.
Kevin Joslin has written the Janet & John scripts for the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show 'Wake up to Wogan' for the last 5 years. The stories are based around the misadventures of John Marsh, a BBC Radio 2 Newsreader. Kevin also runs the website for Terry's show -
www.togs.org
. The full collection of Janet & John stories entitled
See John Run
was published by Headline in October 2009.
Bill Coles studied at Eton for five years before reading Theology at Bristol University. He has been a journalist since 1988, training on the Cambridge Evening News before joining The Sun in 1994. Since 2001, Bill has been freelancing in Edinburgh. His debut novel
The Well-Tempered Clavier
was published by Legend Press in 2007. Click
Here
for a two-minute video about this novel. His follow-up novel
Lord Lucan: My Story
was published in 2009, and
David Cameron's School Days
and
Mr. Two Bomb
was published by Legend Press this year.
Mark Leigh has co-published 36 humour and trivia books including three UK best-sellers. His books include
How to Be a Superhero
(Penguin),
The Book of Stupid Lists
(Virgin Books),
The Lovers' Revenge Kit
(Virgin Books) and
Pets with Tourettes
(Summersdale). Mark has written books with Rolf Harris, Chris Tarrant, Des Lynam, Pamela Stephenson and Jeremy Beadle. He has written segments for The Baftas and Noel's House Party, and sketches for Hale and Pace, Russ Abbott, Brian Conley and many others.
Aubrey Malone has written over 50 books since 1995. He has published biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Elvis Presley, Brendan Behan and Jimmy White, written a novel entitled "The Things That Were" and compiled numerous quotation anthologies, including the best-selling
The Cynic's Dictionary
(Prion),
The Big 50
(Powerfresh),
Little Labour
&
Little Conservative
(Carlton) and various
"Wit"
books (Summersdale).
Malcolm Kohll is a Producer for
Focus Films
in London. Born in South Africa, his first film script was for the science fiction series Doctor Who. In 1995, Malcolm co-produced a film called No Regrets, and he also helped produce the film The 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle. Malcolm wrote the script to the film The Bone Snatcher, and he is now looking to publish an international thriller called Good Hope.
Michael Elsmere retired from teaching English Language and Literature in a variety of educational establishments around the world and in England. He has written a range of novels, short stories and screenplays and his children's story
Rufus and the Biggest Diamond in the World
was published in 2007. Michael also leads writing courses and is currently writing his next children's story.
Dorothy M. Mitchell's first published novel was The Willerby Grange Secret. Since then, she has published two new children's stories called Secret of the Garden and Pic N' Mix, two poetry books including
Life in Rhyme (Feather Book poetry series)
and two novels called
One for Sorry, Two for Joy
and
Hollybeck
, drawing on her experiences in life and writing in a similar vein to Catherine Cookson and Maeve Binchy. Dorothy is working on her next novel called Abigail Beaumont, and writing a fact-based fiction novel about her life and living with multiple sclerosis.