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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Jeremy Paxman credit Dave Williams 2013

Broadcaster, journalist and writer Jeremy Paxman was born on 11 May 1950. He was educated at Malvern...

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David Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Wakefield. He left Manchester Polytechnic i...

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Tim Pears

Tim Pears was born in Tonbridge Wells, Kent, on 15 November 1956. He graduated from the National Fil...

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Luke Pearson is a freelance illustrator and comic book artist. Clients he has worked for include No...

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Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in creative writing at Royal Holloway which she...

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Originally a Natural Sciences graduate with a PhD in optoelectronics, Mario Petrucci works as a free...

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Caryl Phillips was born on 13 March 1958 on the Caribbean island of St Kitts. He grew up in Leeds, E...

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Writer Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He came to Britain as a child and grew up in Lo...

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Phillipson Jamie Hawkesworth

The artist and poet Heather Phillipson was born in London in 1978. She completed her undergraduate d...

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Woodrow Phoenix is a writer, artist, illustrator and graphic designer based in London. He is known f...

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Katherine Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. She studied languages at Exeter University, th...

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DBC Pierre was born in 1961 in Reynella, Australia. He was brought up in Mexico and the UK, and now ...

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Sadie Plant was born in 1964 in Birmingham. She read Philosophy at Manchester University, lectured a...

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Stephen Poliakoff

Stephen Poliakoff is an acclaimed playwright, director and scriptwriter. Born in London in 1952, he ...

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Pollard Hayley Madden

Clare Pollard was born in 1978, and studied at Cambridge University. She was the recipient of an Eri...

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JACOB POLLEY copyright Adrian Pope

Born in 1975, poet and novelist Jacob Polley grew up in rural Bowness-on-Solway near Carlisle. Early...

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Rob Pope is Professor of English at the School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University. He has work...

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Max Porter is Editorial Director of Granta and Portobello Books. His debut novel Grief is the Thing ...

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Poet and novelist Jem Poster was educated at Henbury Comprehensive, Bristol, and at Pembroke College...

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Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh in 1950.   After studies at the University of St Andrews, he taught E...

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