This Mancunian lesbian loves the word “lover”: She describes herself as not only a plain “lover” but also a “book lover, opera lover and nature lover” to her 37,000 followers on Twitter and is well known for exploring “gender polarities” and “sexual identities” in her works. Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread prize with her first novel, Orange are Not the Only Fruit in 1985 and opened an organic deli and café named Verde’s beneath her Spitalfields home in the mid-1990s. In June 2014 she “sparked fury” by sharing pictures of a rabbit she killed and then cooked on Twitter and in 2009 she used the medium to propose to her partner, a psychoanalyst named Susie Orbach.
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Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)
The younger sister of the diva-esque actress Joan Collins, “Queen of the Bonkbuster” Jackie Collins wrote 32 novels and sold over 500 million books during her lifetime.
Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE
This author and co-founder of the Orange Prize for Literature must often find people confusing her with the model of the same name. Most famous for her international bestseller novel Labyrinth, Mosse is a lynchpin of the “Chichester set”. She has an honorary degree from her hometown’s university and set up the Chichester Writing Festival […]
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