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Michael Walmer has set about publishing a list where the main ingredient is quality. Authors will be sourced from all over the world, with a love of erudition, be it elegant or rough-edged, simple or complex, poetic or blunt, or all of these!, as the enlivening and guiding principle.
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Saki
SAKI (Hector Munro) was born in Burma in 1870. He was sent to boarding school in Devon and Bedfordshire. Following his father into the Imperial Police, he was posted back to Burma. After contracting malaria, he returned to England where his writing career blossomed. When war broke out in 1914, he refused a commission and joined up as an ordinary trooper. During the Battle of the Ancre in 1916, whilst resting in a crater, he was shot dead by a German sniper. His output included some of the funniest stories in the English language, as well as plays, essays and two novels.
Janet Burroway
JANET BURROWAY was born in Tucson in 1936. Educated at the University of Arizona, and then Barnard, Cambridge and Yale, she has been employed in various academic teaching positions since the award of her MA in 1965. Her works began to appear, starting with serial publication of short stories, in the 1950s. Her first novel, Descend Again, was published in 1960. It has been followed by eight more, the most recent of which, Simone in Pieces, will be published in November 2025. She has also published volumes of poetry, essays and criticism, plays, children’s books and autobiography. She is the author of one of the key teaching works about the pursuit of letters, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, now in its tenth edition. She lives in Chicago.
John Cowper Powys
JOHN COWPER POWYS was born in Derbyshire in 1872. His first book, a collection of poems, was published in 1896, the year of his marriage to Margaret Lyon. They had one son. His career slowly blossomed with novels, stories, more poetry, autobiography, philosophy and literary criticism, all marked with his highly individual vision, as well as many appearances on the lecture circuit, mainly in the United States, where he lived between 1905 and 1934. Two of his brothers, Theodore and Llewelyn, became famed as writers during this time. He wrote several deeply influential major novels, including Wolf Solent (1929) and A Glastonbury Romance (1932), as well as a remarkable autobiography, published in 1934. He and his second partner, Phyllis Playter, lived in Wales until his death in 1963, at the age of 90.