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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Michael Holroyd Author Photo cred Caroline Forbes

Biographer Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and was educated at Eton College. His first book was a b...

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Novelist Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944. He was educated at the uni...

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Mererid Hopwood was born in Cardiff and now lives in Carmarthen. A first-language Welsh-speaker, she...

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Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1957. He graduated from Cambridge University an...

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Anthony Horowitz is best known as a screenwriter and children's novelist. Born in 1955 in North Lond...

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Howe Sarah c. Hayley Madden bw

Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983 and moved to England as a child. Sarah was a Poetry Society...

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Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Growing up in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan ...

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Declan Hughes is a crime novelist, a screenwriter and an award-winning playwright. He co-founded Rou...

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Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. She was born in 1967 in and br...

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Biographer, critic and journalist Lucy Hughes-Hallett was born in 1951. She was educated at Bedford ...

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Michael Hulse is a poet, translator and critic. Born in 1955, he was brought up in Stoke-on-Trent an...

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Emyr Humphreys was born in Prestatyn, Wales, in 1919 and now lives on Anglesey.He is a writer of nov...

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Andrew Hussey c Jerry Bauer Agence Opale web

Andrew Hussey is a cultural historian and biographer. He grew up in Liverpool, and studied at Manche...

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M. J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent her early childhood in Dublin. Sh...

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Ed Hillyer ILYA

Ed Hillyer – also known as ILYA – is a British writer and artist. His books include the award-winnin...

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Kazuo+Ishiguro credit Jeff+Cottenden web

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his ...

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Jack Ian Credit The Guardian web

Ian Jack became the editor of Granta magazine in 1995, and remained in the post until 2007. Previous...

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Howard Jacobson c Jenny Jacobson web

Born in Manchester, England in 1942, novelist and broadcaster Howard Jacobson was educated at Cambri...

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Jamie Kathleen Eamonn McCabe

Kathleen Jamie was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1962. She studied philosophy at Edinburgh Unive...

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From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Oliver Jeffers’ w...

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