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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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Julianne Pachico

Julianne Pachico was born in Cambridge (U.K.) and grew up in Cali (Colombia). She is currently compl...

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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel was born in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Soc...

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Louise Page

Playwright, novelist and journalist Louise Page was born in London, in 1955. She was educated at the...

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David Park

David Park was born in Belfast in 1953, and now lives in County Down, Northern Ireland. He was educa...

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor and publisher, who has won acclaim as a children's author, po...

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Tim Parks

Tim Parks was born in Manchester, England in 1954, spent his adolescence in London and studied at Ca...

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Sandeep Parmar

Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in Eng...

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Don Paterson

Poet, writer and musician Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory...

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Brian Patten

Brian Patten made his name in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool Poets, alongside Adrian Henri and Ro...

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Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University...

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Tom Paulin

Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 25 January 1949, poet, critic and playwright Tom (Thomas Neilson) Pauli...

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Michelle Paver Charles Shearn
Michelle Paver

Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in 1960 and moved to England in 1963. She studied ...

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Jeremy Paxman

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

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David Peace

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

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

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Luke Pearson

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

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

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Mario Petrucci

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

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Caryl Phillips

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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Mike Phillips

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

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