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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Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1972 where he was brough...

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Mark Ford was born in 1962 in Nairobi, Kenya. He studied for a BA and a DPhil at the University of O...

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Michael Foreman was born in Suffolk in 1938 and grew up near Lowestoft. He studied at Lowestoft Art ...

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Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom and now divides he...

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Adam Foulds was born and raised in London. He studied English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and...

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Karrie Fransman was born in Edinburgh. She studied psychology and sociology at the University of Lee...

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Playwright, novelist and translator Michael Frayn was born in London on 8 September 1933. After two ...

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Laura Freeman

Laura Freeman is a freelance writer, journalist and art critic.  She writes on an array of topics in...

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Esther Freud was born in London in 1963, one of the daughters of the painter Lucian Freud. As a youn...

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Annie Freud is a poet, artist, editor and teacher. She was born in 1948 and studied English and Euro...

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Stephen Fry

Comedian, actor and writer Stephen Fry was born in 1957 in London and brought up in Norfolk. He atte...

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Fuller John Credit Paul Stuart web

Poet, novelist and critic John Fuller was born on 1 January 1937 in Ashford, Kent. His father was th...

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Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, in 1960 and since 1992 has lived in the United States, curren...

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Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight in 1962, where his father was prison governor at Camp Hil...

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Janice Galloway’s first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), now widely regarded as a Scott...

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Novelist Jane Gardam was born Jean Mary Pearson in Coatham, North Yorkshire on 11 July 1928. She was...

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Sally Gardner is a multi-award-winning novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty...

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Alex Garland was born in 1970 in London, and studied Art History at the University of Manchester. On...

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Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India. She moved to England when she was 12 years old, and later...

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Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954 and brought up in London. He studied English at the Universi...

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