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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Alex Preston was born in 1979 and studied English at Oxford University. His first novel, This Bleedi...

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Playwright Rebecca Prichard was born in 1971. She studied drama at Exeter University, graduating in ...

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Christopher Priest was born in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, in 1943. He began writing soon after lea...

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J. H. Prynne was born in 1936 and is a leading late modernist poet. He was a key contributor to The ...

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Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh was born in 1950 and lives in Shetland. She lived for many years in Wales and taught C...

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Kate Pullinger was born in British Columbia and educated on Vancouver Island. She moved to England w...

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Philip Pullman was born in Norwich in 1946, and travelled all over the world during his childhood, s...

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Poet and critic Craig Raine was born on 3 December 1944 in Bishop Auckland, England, and read Englis...

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Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire in 1979. He studied English at King's College, London and later fo...

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Ravinder Randhawa was born in India and grew up in Warwickshire.  In 1984 she founded the Asian Wom...

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Ian Rankin is the UK's number one best-selling crime writer. He lives in Edinburgh, and writes abou...

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Frederic Raphael was born in 1931 in Chicago and moved to England as a boy. He was educated at Chart...

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Mark Ravenhill

Playwright Mark Ravenhill was educated at Bristol University where he studied English and Drama, and...

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Novelist and playwright Piers Paul Read was born in Beaconsfield on 7 March 1941. He was educated at...

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Celia Rees was born in 1949 and grew up in Solihull, England. She took a degree in History and Polit...

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Philip Reeve was born and brought up in Brighton, and has since lived in Devon and Dartmoor. He work...

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Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949, educated in England, and studied at Oxford Universit...

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Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid was a poet, a prose writer, a translator, and a traveller. Born in Galloway, he served...

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Oliver Reynolds

Oliver Reynolds was born in 1957 in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at the University of Hull, where...

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Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He studied Humanities at the University of Glamorgan and later returned...

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