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This unique, searchable database contains profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers, as well as writers from these regions with whom we have worked. Included in the profiles are biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews and information about awards.

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Aslam+Nadeem credit Richard Lea Hair web
Nadeem Aslam

Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to the UK as a teenager, his family settling in ...

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Kate Atkinson CURRENT c Euan Myles
Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson was born in York in 1951 and studied English Literature at Dundee University.After gra...

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Tash Aw

Tash Aw was born in Taiwan to Malaysian parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpar.He moved to England in h...

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Sir Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939, and has worked in theatre all his life.He has underta...

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Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff.She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia a...

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Paul Bailey

Writer and broadcaster Paul Bailey was born on 16 February 1937.He won a scholarship to the Central ...

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Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in 1974 in Lancashire, and his family comes from Southern India.He i...

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Iain Bamforth

Iain Bamforth was born in 1959 into a Plymouth Brethren family and grew up in Glasgow, where he atte...

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Biyi Bandele

Biyi Bandele was born in Nigeria in 1967, and now lives in London. He has written several plays, and...

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John Banville
John Banville

Irish novelist John Banville was born in Wexford in Ireland in 1945. He was educated at a Christian ...

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Nicola Barker c Tony Davis
Nicola Barker

Nicola Barker was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, in 1966. She spent part of her life in South Africa b...

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Pat Barker

Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943.She was educat...

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Patrick Barkham

Patrick Barkham was born in 1975 in Norfolk and  educated at Cambridge University. He is a national ...

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Nick Barlay
Nick Barlay

Nick Barlay is the author of three novels: Curvy Lovebox (1997), Crumple Zone (2000) and Hooky Gear ...

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Julian Barnes

Novelist Julian Barnes was born in Leicester on 19 January 1946, and was educated at the City of Lon...

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Simon Barraclough

Simon Barraclough was born and raised in Huddersfield and studied at the universities of Nottingham ...

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Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry was born on 5 July 1955 in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His acade...

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Neil Bartlett

Neil Bartlett was born in 1958 in Hertfordshire, and is a writer, playwright, translator, performer ...

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Susan Bassnett

Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Centre for Translation and Comparative ...

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Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate studied at Cambridge and Harvard universities. Well known as a biographer, critic, bro...

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