Writers Directory

This database was created to provide a snapshot of contemporary British Literature, offering unique critical perspectives of the work of some of the writers living and working in the UK today. Our website is currently under review and as a result we are not updating the database or adding new entries at this time.  Please check our blog pages for updates on our current Literature programmes. 

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Julianne Pachico author pic Credit Nick Bradley edit

Julianne Pachico was born in Cambridge (U.K.) and grew up in Cali (Colombia). She is currently compl...

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Padel Ruth Credit Alex Phoundoulakis

Ruth Padel was born in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Soc...

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Playwright, novelist and journalist Louise Page was born in London, in 1955. She was educated at the...

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David Park c Bobbie Hanvey

David Park was born in Belfast in 1953, and now lives in County Down, Northern Ireland. He was educa...

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor and publisher, who has won acclaim as a children's author, po...

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Parks Tim Credit Basso Cannarsa

Tim Parks was born in Manchester, England in 1954, spent his adolescence in London and studied at Ca...

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Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in Eng...

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Poet, writer and musician Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory...

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Brian Patten made his name in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool Poets, alongside Adrian Henri and Ro...

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Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University...

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Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 25 January 1949, poet, critic and playwright Tom (Thomas Neilson) Pauli...

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Michelle Paver Charles Shearn

Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in 1960 and moved to England in 1963. She studied ...

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Jeremy Paxman credit Dave Williams 2013

Broadcaster, journalist and writer Jeremy Paxman was born on 11 May 1950. He was educated at Malvern...

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David Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Wakefield. He left Manchester Polytechnic i...

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Tim Pears

Tim Pears was born in Tonbridge Wells, Kent, on 15 November 1956. He graduated from the National Fil...

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Luke Pearson is a freelance illustrator and comic book artist. Clients he has worked for include No...

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Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in creative writing at Royal Holloway which she...

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Originally a Natural Sciences graduate with a PhD in optoelectronics, Mario Petrucci works as a free...

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Caryl Phillips was born on 13 March 1958 on the Caribbean island of St Kitts. He grew up in Leeds, E...

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Writer Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He came to Britain as a child and grew up in Lo...

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