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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Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and grew up in London. His debut novel, Remainder, was initially rejec...

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Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. Her groundb...

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Geraldine McCaughrean was born in 1951 and brought up in North London.She studied at Christ Church C...

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Crime writer Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and studied English at Oxford University. ...

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Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. He spent much of his childh...

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Award-winning poet, playwright, broadcaster and children's author Roger McGough was born on 9 Novemb...

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Claire McGowan was born in Northern Ireland in 1981. She grew up in a village where the most excitin...

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Jon McGregor was born in Bermuda in 1976. He moved with his family to England and spent his childhoo...

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Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast on 12 August 1950 and educated at a Dominican convent and Queen'...

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Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968.  He is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, where...

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Hilary McKay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire where she grew up the eldest of four girls in a family...

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Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955, studied at Nottingham University and taught for some...

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Sophie McKenzie was born in London, studied at university there, and worked as a journalist, an edit...

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David McKie was born in 1935, and works as a journalist and author. He was deputy editor of The Guar...

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Poet Ian McMillan was born in 1956, in Darfield, South Yorkshire, England and was educated at North ...

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Cliff McNish was born in Sunderland in 1962 and worked in the computer industry before taking up wri...

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Born in Belfast, Paul McVeigh began his award-winning writing career as a playwright before moving t...

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Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1955 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge....

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James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. He worked as a reporter for 20 years, a...

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Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such a...

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