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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David Harsent credit Simon Harsent

David Harsent has received a number of literary awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, an Eric Greg...

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Harvey Samantha Credit Matt Lincoln web

Samantha Harvey was born in Kent in 1975. She studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa Univ...

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James Hawes was born in 1960 and grew up in Gloucestershire, Edinburgh and Shropshire. After graduat...

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MO HAYDER Margaret Lister high res web

Mo Hayder is an author of crime and thriller fiction. She left school at 15, and after a series of j...

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Emma Healey USE

Emma Healey was born in London in 1985. She completed a foundation year at Central Saint Martins Col...

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I Heggie web

Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow in 1953. His Mobil prize-winning play, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (198...

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Performance poet John Hegley was born in 1953 in Newington Green, Islington. He grew up in Luton and...

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Zoe Heller c Jacques Brouchier NEW PLEASE USE web

Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New...

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Alexandra Heminsley worked in publishing for six years before becoming a freelance journalist, broad...

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Paul Henry

Paul Henry is the author of six poetry collections and his work has been widely anthologised. A popu...

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Philip Hensher was born in London in 1965 and was educated at Oxford University. His doctoral thesis...

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Herbert Mark Husmann

W. N. Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee, Scotland and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. Hi...

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Imogen Hermes Gowar

Imogen Hermes Gowar studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History at the University of East Angl...

Tania Hershman Photo c Lou Abercrombie

Tania Hershman is the author of two story collections: My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions (Tan...

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Charlotte Higgins web

Charlotte Higgins was born in Stoke on Trent in 1972 and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford...

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Hill photo Maisie Hill 2013 web

Poet Selima Hill was born on 13 October 1945 in London, England and grew up in rural England and Wal...

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Hill Susan Credit Ben Graville

Novelist, children's writer and playwright Susan (Elizabeth) Hill was born in Scarborough, England, ...

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Tobias Hill c John Foley web

Poet and novelist Tobias Hill was born in London, England, on 30 March 1970. He read English at Suss...

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Justin Hill Photo

Justin Hill was born in the Bahamas in 1971, and moved to the family's native Yorkshire three years ...

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Laura Hird was born in 1966. She studied Contemporary Writing at Middlesex Polytechnic. In 1997 she ...

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