Wilbur Smith (Author)
Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing.
Born in Central Africa in 1933, W ilbur became a full-time w riter in 1964 follow ing the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has since published over forty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions w orldw ide.
The establishment of the W ilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented W ilbur's passion for empow ering w riters, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the W ilbur Smith Adventure W riting Prize.

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Mark Chadbourn (Author)
Mark Chadbourn is a Sunday Times bestselling author of historical fiction novels about the Anglo-Saxon w arrior Hereward, published under his pseudonym James Wilde. His Age of Misrule books, under his ow n name, have been translated into many languages. As a screenw riter, he's w ritten for the BBC and is currently developing series for Lionsgate and several of the streaming netw orks. He began his career as a journalist reporting from the w orld's hotspots.