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Creative Staff
Some of our past employees have gone on to careers in literature.
David MitchellFirst Fiction Buyer here, he came for tea last month and signed our "author wall". He has good memories of his 2 years here. He said this shop is like Dr Who: goes on reinventing itself. |
James HenryFiction Buyer, 2001-2003. Co-author of: Smack The Pony, Bob The Builder and Green Wing. Has a page at start of Green Wing Scripts book.
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Matt EvansBookseller, 1999-2001. Hollyoaks scriptwriter, author of the Hollyoaks script book. |
Alan McarthurBookseller 1998-1999, main author of Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? and its sequel.
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Andy Mc NairBookseller, Canterbury, Earls Court, Imperial College, Piccadilly, 1998-2004. Fulltime Tenor, Chorus Royal Opera House. It's a little-known fact that Waterstones HR paid for his ENO course "the knack" out of the Staff Development Fund.
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Sonia OverallBookseller and then Assistant Manager, 1999-2003.
Successful Novelist. auhtor of A Likeness (collins,2004) and Realm
of Shells (collins), currently in our 3 for 2!!
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John GrigsbyBookseller, 1999-2002, expert on Ancient Civilisations. After heckling Graham Hancock at an event here he became his co-author on Mars Mystery. He then wrote Warriors of the Wasteland (2002) , and Beowulf and Grendel (2006).
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Paula CroxonAssistant Manager, 1996-1997, author of the Piatkus Encyclopaedia of Mind Body and Spirit. (1998)
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Claire Seymour bookseller. 1997- 2000, has written a biography
of Benjamin Britten (2003).
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Michael AmerstorferWrote Lehrgeld,
a crime novel set in Canterbury.
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Martin Latham Our manager, wrote all the traveller, biographer, and historian entries for The Oxford Guide to Twentieth Century Literature, in 1996 (and I have a PhD in Indian history). |
 also.. Umberto Eco did a day behind the till here, on a Sunday. We have a rather bad photo of him there! |
