Authors

Fighting Cock Press is proud to present its featured authors to a wider public. All our authors have been entertaining local audiences with their stories for many years and it is only fitting their best material should be published.

Alan Gillott

Alan Gillott is a poet, writer, composer, and singer who performs in the UK and USA and is well known ...
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Colin Speakman

Colin is a respected academic, author and broadcaster and Burley-in-Wharfedale resident. A co-creator of the Dales Way, which is over ...
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Ian M Emberson

... Publications Natural Light Author: Ian M EmbersonRead more ...
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Jo Summers

Jo Summers was made in Australia, but her mother, Pauline Kirk, just managed to get back to the UK before ...
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Mary Sheepshanks

... Publications Thinning Grapes Author: Mary SheepshanksRead more Kingfisher Days Author: Mary SheepshanksRead more ...
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Pauline Kirk

Born in Birmingham, Pauline moved to York, having lived in Leeds, Reading, Benfleet (Essex), and Melbourne (Australia). She now lives ...
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PJ Quinn

PJ Quinn is the pen name of mother and daughter team Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers. Jo challenged her mother to write a crime novel ...
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Rita Jerram

Some years ago, Rita Jerram read her grandmother Edith’s journals and began to imagine herself following in Edith’s footsteps. Rita ...
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Rose Drew

Rose Drew is a poet and anthropologist, at home in a lab, a classroom, or a stage. Rose is a ...
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