About

Just Grand is the creative and business partnership of Bernie Strachan and Matthew Strachan. Together, and independently, they create music, plays, musicals and novels.

Bernie Strachan

Author / Playwright

Bernie has been a wool shop manager, advertising producer, and a voiceover agent. Now she's a writer and working on her thirteenth novel. She writes as Bernadette Strachan, Juliet Ashton, and Clare Sandy. Her books The Reluctant Landlady and The Valentine's Card have been bestsellers in the UK and Europe. She's written three musicals too.

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Matthew Strachan

Composer / Songwriter

Matthew on the other hand has only ever been a composer and has written TV themes, advertising jingles, and theatre scores. He spent three years songwriting in Nashville before coming back to London and writing three musicals with Bernie. He's won a number of ASCAP awards including the Hall of Fame Award for the soundtrack to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. His theme for the WW1 drama Home Front can be heard on Radio 4 at lunchtimes. 

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