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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Novelist Maggie Gee was born in Poole, Dorset, and educated at state schools and Somerville College,...

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Kadija George is a literary activist, editor and publisher. Of Sierra Leonean descent, she read West...

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Alan Gibbons was born in 1953 in Warrington, Cheshire, later moving with his family to Crewe. He was...

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Gibbons is a graphic novels writer and illustrator, born in London in 1949. He broke into British co...

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Valerie Gillies is the author of several poetry collections, including The Ringing Rock (1995), The ...

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Chrissie Gittins’ first poetry collection is Armature (Arc, 2003) – ‘Gittins’s deadpan tone and skew...

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Novelist Lesley Glaister was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England in 1956. She grew up ...

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Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, England on ...

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John Godber was born in West Yorkshire in 1956. He is known mainly for his work in theatre but has a...

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Julia Golding was born in 1969 and grew up near Epping Forest. She studied English at Cambridge Univ...

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Poet Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and returned to live in the county in 2013. She lived in Liverp...

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Dave Goulson is a British biologist, conservationist, and Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour...

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Jon Gower grew up in Llanelli, Wales and studied English at Cambridge University.A former BBC Wales'...

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Caroline Graham was born on 17 July 1931 in Warwickshire, England. She was a factory worker for thre...

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Linda Grant was born in Liverpool, England in 1951, and read English at the University of York. Her ...

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Richard Perceval Graves was born in Brighton in 1945. He studied Modern History at St. John's Colleg...

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Alasdair Gray describes himself as a 'self-employed verbal and pictorial artist'. He was born in Rid...

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Keith Gray was born and brought up in Grimsby. At primary school he avoided books thinking they were...

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Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London in 1962. She read Modern Arts at Kingston Poly...

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Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tud...

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