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    George Packer

    George Packer has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa, a carpenter in Boston, and a writing instructor at Harvard, Bennington and Emerson. He is the author of ... More

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    Mike Packer

    Previously an actor, Mike Packer's first play Card Boys was performed at The Bush in 1999. A Carpet, A Pony and A Monkey is his second play. More

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    Ruth Padel

    Ruth Padel was born in London in 1947 and educated at Oxford. She lived several years in Greece and worked as a Greek scholar before becoming a freelance writer. She ... More

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    William Palmer

    William Palmer was born in 1945 and attended schools in England and Wales. After a bewildering variety of jobs he became a full-time writer in 1988. His published books include ... More

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    James Palmer

    James Palmer was born in 1978. In 2003 he won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing. He has worked with Daoist and Buddhist groups in China and Mongolia ... More

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    Roy Palmer

    Roy Palmer was educated at Manchester University where he obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees. He taught for many years, the last eleven as head of a Birmingham comprehensive school, before ... More

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    Alan Palmer

    Alan Palmer was head of History at Highgate School, London for nineteen years before retiring early to concentrate on historical writing and research. He is the author of more than ... More

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    G.E.H. Palmer

    Gerald Eustace Howell Palmer (1904–84) studied at Oxford and was the MP for Winchester from 1935 until 1945. He collaborated in many translations, including The Philokalia. More

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    Orhan Pamuk

    Orhan Pamuk, described as ‘one of the freshest, most original voices in contemporary fiction’ (Independent on Sunday), is the author of many books, including The White Castle, The Black Book ... More

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    Cecil Parrott

    Sir Cecil Parrott (1909-1984), diplomat, translator, writer and scholar, is best-known for his definitive translation of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, The Tightrope ... More

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