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Lissa Evans
After studying medicine at Newcastle University Lissa Evans worked as a junior doctor, before deciding to change to a career in which she wasn’t terrified the entire time; a job in BBC Radio light entertainment followed, and then a switch to television, where she produced and directed series including ‘Room 101’ and also ‘Father Ted’, for which she won a BAFTA. Small Bomb at Dimperley is her 11th book, ‘an irresistible novel which combines a crumbling once-grand house, bumbling aristos clinging to the pre-war past, and the magnificent Zena Baxter. This is Lissa Evans at the peak of her mighty powers’ India Knight
Clare Chambers
Clare Chambers was born in south-east London in 1966 and spent the year after graduating from Oxford University in New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel, Uncertain Terms. She has since written eight further novels, including Learning to Swim which won the Romantic Novelists’ Association best novel award.
Clare began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch, when Diana Athill was still at the helm. They not only published her first novel, but made her type her own contract. Her novel Small Pleasures (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) is set in the London suburbs in 1957 and concerns a woman claiming to be a virgin mother. Her new novel Shy Creatures is published at the end of August.