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George Macpherson

Award-winning writer and journalist George Macpherson was educated at St Paul's School, London and Seale Hayne Agricultural College, now the University of Plymouth. He worked for the United Nations' International Labour Organisation in Africa as a Technical Advisor before joining BBC World Service as a producer, then Programme Organiser for the Swahili Service. He also presented and produced music, medical, farming and wildlife programmes for TV South, BBC Five Live and BBC Radio Four before moving with his wife Jane, to France to write novels.

They returned to UK in 2014 and live in Somerset.

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Jane Macpherson

Jane Macpherson read English and drama at Loughborough University and taught for many years, before becoming a science and rural journalist. She went into politics and became Mayor of Calne in Wiltshire before moving first to Cornwall and then France. She lives now on Exmoor in Somerset with her husband. They have eight children and ten grand-children, if you include the ‘steps’.

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Mick Newman

Mick Newman was born in Cork City in the Republic of Ireland in 1934, youngest of five. His mother died when he was 10 years old and he was brought up by an older sister and his father, who worked at home as one of the last artisan shoe-makers in Southern Ireland. At sixteen, Mick left school and ‘took the king’s shilling’, joining the post-World War II British Royal Navy, where he became an able-seaman, assigned to the gunnery section, for several years on HMS Ark Royal. After 15 years service he with his shipmate and best friend, Dennis, moved on to a wide variety of jobs - Mick was a postman for two years. He worked in factories, then took up building renovation and decorating, living in a caravan for twelve years until retirement. He now lives in Pelynt, near Looe, Cornwall.

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Jenny Gateau

Jenny Gateau was born in Hertfordshire, brought up in London, moved to Harlow and there, taught, married and had her three children. They and their families now live in Bristol, London and Derry. She retired to the West Country and now lives in Minehead, where she is a member of the Quaker Meeting and of Alcombe St Michael's church. Much of her time is spent with Minehead and District Refugee Support Group, helping local refugees settle in their quest for a new life.

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