Keir Giles
KEIR GILES has spent his career watching, studying and explaining Russia.
Keir works with Chatham House in London, and the Conflict Studies Research Centre, a small group of experts in defence and security. Outside the UK, he has provided advice, analysis and expertise on Russia across Europe and North America.
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Peter Apps lives in England, and Deja Vu To The Nth is his third novel. He wrote it because he still thinks people are pretty amazing even though Peter hasn’t met anyone who has built a space portal, but then again, he hasn’t looked in everyone’s garden shed either.
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He was born on 1st January 1948 has lived in Sheerness, Kent for most of his life. The Isle of Sheppey where Sheerness is situated has a long, rich history which has always fascinated Peter. History might seem a far cry from Science Fiction but imagining life in a Roman settlement is imagining a world just as alien as a distant planet.
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Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein, helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation. Woodward has written 12 best-selling non-fiction books and has twice contributed reporting to efforts that collectively earned the Post and its National Reporting staff a Pulitzer Prize. -
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Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year.After leaving Oxford University, Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent, and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard.
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FI: Seppo Sakari Jokinen (s. 13. huhtikuuta 1949 Tampere) on suomalainen rikoskirjailija.
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FI: Tuomas Kyrö on suomalainen romaaneja, kolumneja, pakinoita, draamaa sekä sarja- ja pilakuvia tuottanut kirjailija ja sarjakuvapiirtäjä. Kyrö on palkittu muun muassa Kalevi Jäntin rahaston palkinnolla vuonna 2005 ja Nuori Aleksis -palkinnolla 2006. Hänen teoksensa Liitto oli ehdolla Finlandia-palkinnon saajaksi vuonna 2005. Kyrö oli Eeva Joenpellon kirjailijakodin ensimmäinen stipendiaatti vuosina 2005–2009. Nykyisin hän asuu perheineen Janakkalassa. -
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