WELCOME TO DEE GORDON (A PROLIFIC AND WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR FROM SOUTHEND)

FAMOUS ESSEX AUTHORS (That you have never heard of)

(With over 40 illustrations plus a fold-out Essex author map)

Admittedly, there are some names within these pages that you will know already, but there are literally dozens of names that have been, sadly, forgotten over time. You may recognise some book titles, however (The French Lieutenant’s Woman? One Hundred and One Dalmatians?)

Some of the romance writers featured may not have famous names or even famous “titles” but they were so prolific and popular that they deserve to be foregrounded for their contribution to the world of books.

These earlier generations of writers set the stage for those current Essex writers that feature on the bestseller lists. It has also been important for Essex to include big guns such as Austen, Shakespeare and Dickens, however tenuous the links in such cases!

ISBN 9781739931629, RRP Price £12.99 Stock item at Gardners Books. www.essex100.com ask@essex100.com