Margit SandemoMargit Sandemo is Scandinavia’s most popular author. Her flagship multi-volume fantasy-historical saga The Legend of the Ice People, now about to be published in English for the first time, has made her something of a living legend among writers because it alone has sold 25 million copies in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
On her mother’s side Margit is a descendant of numerous noble European families. Her mother was a Swedish countess, Elsa Reuterskiold of the aristocratic Finnish-Swedish Oxenstierna family, which figures fictionally in some of her early books in The Legend of the Ice People. Margit numbers among her ancestry Scottish and European monarchs, dukes and duchesses as well as the odd robber baron – not to mention more distant emperors of the ancient world in a pedigree, which she has traced, back more than two thousand years. More...
Anthony GreyAnthony Grey, through no fault or merit of his own, became the focus of worldwide headlines in 1967 when he was seized as a hostage by Mao Tse-tungs's Red Guards. Held in solitary confinement in Beijing for two years at the height of the Cultural Revolution, he became arguably the most publicised prisoner of the Cold War era and the first international political hostage of modern times. Following the ordeal he went on to establish himself as a best-selling international historical novelist focussing particularly on the Far East. More...
Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj gained his formal medical education in England at St Mary’s Hospital in London. He went into practice in his native Iran, but when the country became convulsed by the violent revolution that overthrew the Shah he was arrested and sentenced to death. While on death row in Teheran’s Evin prison he became aware of the healing powers of ordinary tap water. His discovery, and a quickly-written research paper on the subject, was to save his life. He presented his medical findings to the presiding judge at his appeal, who rescinded his sentence so he could study the issue further. More...
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