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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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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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 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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Philip Hoare Author Photo c Andrew Sutton web

Philip Hoare was born Southampton, England, on 22 May 1958, and educated in Southampton and London, ...

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Michael Hofmann credit Ulla Montan

Poet and translator Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, West Germany in 1957. The son of the Germa...

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Hollinghurst Alan Credit Robert Taylor

Alan Hollinghurst was born in Stroud in Gloucestershire, England in 1954 and was educated at Magdale...

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Hollis+Matthew credit Claire McNamee

Matthew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich, and studied at the universities of Edinburgh and York. H...

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Biographer Richard Holmes was born in London, England on 5 November 1945 and educated at Downside Sc...

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Rachel Holmes c Sarah Hickson web

Rachel Holmes’ new book, Eleanor Marx: A Life was published by Bloomsbury in 2014, described by Gold...

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