Geraldine Bedell is a British novelist. She is a writer for The Observer

The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...

. She is married to Charles Leadbeater

Charles Leadbeater

Charles Leadbeater is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair.He first came to widespread notice in the 1980s as a regular contributor to the magazine Marxism Today. Later he was Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief at the Financial Times...

 and sister of Elaine Bedell.

She drew wide public attention when she was disinvited from a planned appearance at the first International Festival of Literature in Dubai, scheduled to begin on February 26, 2009, when her novel The Gulf Between Us was discovered by festival organizers to feature a homosexual sheikh.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

 cancelled her scheduled appearance at the book festival in protest.

Books

• The Handmade House (Penguin, 2005)
• The Gulf Between Us
  The Gulf Between Us
  The Gulf Between Us is a novel by Geraldine Bedell. The novel is a romantic comedy set in a fictional Gulf emirate.The book drew wide public attention when the author was disinvited from a planned appearance at the first International Festival of Literature in Dubai, scheduled to begin on...
  
  (Penguin, 2009)
• Party Tricks (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
• A Fabulous Fling (HarperCollins, 2000)