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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IforThomas

Ifor Thomas was born in Haverfordwest in 1949. He received the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in...

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Alice Thompson grew up in Edinburgh and read English at Oxford University. She played keyboard with ...

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Kate Thompson was born in Halifax and grew up in Leamington Spa and Worcester. She has lived in Irel...

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Matt Thorne credit Daniel Blumberg website

Matt Thorne was born in 1974, and grew up in Bristol. He studied at Cambridge University and is the ...

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Thorpe Adam Credit Daniel Thorpe website

Poet, playwright and novelist Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in India, Cameroon a...

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Award-winning travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Educated ...

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Poet Anthony Thwaite was born in Chester, England, in 1930. He spent his early childhood in Yorkshir...

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Irish novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in Ireland in 1955 an...

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Claire Tomalin NEW 2011 credit Angus Muir website

Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. After graduating from Newnham College, Cambrid...

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Barbara Trapido c Tony Kaplan website

Barbara Trapido was born in 1941 in Capetown, South Africa. She studied at the University of Natal, ...

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Treglown Jeremy Credit Thomas Hayward website

Jeremy Treglown is Professor of English at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Socie...

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Tremain Rose NEW c David Kirkham website

Novelist Rose Tremain was born in 1943 in London. She was educated at the Sorbonne and is a graduate...

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Rachel Trezise was born in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, in 1978. At 16, she produced and edited ...

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Novelist Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943, and was educated at Reigate County School for ...

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Lynne Truss is a writer and broadcaster. She began work as a literary journalist, editing the Books ...

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Biologist and writer Colin Tudge was born on 22 April 1943 in London, and was educated at Peterhouse...

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Ann Turnbull was born in Hertford in 1943, and brought up in south-east London. She worked as a secr...

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Jenny Uglow credit Johnny Ring

Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and Dorset and studied English at Oxford. Until 2012, she was Editori...

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Ardashir Vakil Photo c Tom Miller

Ardashir Vakil was born in Bombay and now lives in London. He was educated at The Doon School in Deh...

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Ed Vere photo CURRENT website

Ed Vere writes and illustrates picture books which are published all over the world. The Getaway, wo...

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