Michael McMillan
Michael McMillan is an acclaimed arts practitioner whose work includes plays, non-fiction books and installations/exhibitions. His early plays at the Royal Court Theatre — The School Leaver (1978) and Hard...
Donald Campbell
...his directorial debut with a production of John McGrath’s Plugged into History during the Edinburgh Festival of 1986. Subsequent productions have included a revival of his own Blackfriars Wynd, two...
Beyond The Mother Tongue
...required. Coch… ddoe… llaeth… rhaglen… yng nghaerdydd. It was fun to begin with; all of us as bad as each other. But as the weeks progressed, I realised that some...
The Yellow Rose
...friends. Her mom never finished her book about Plath, she tells me. There had been difficulties. She shares unpublished information. Details that had remained private. ‘Keep it to yourself’, she...
Michael Abbensetts 1938-2016
...featured Norman Beaton as Everton Bennett and Corinne Skinner-Carter as his long-suffering screen wife. Norman Beaton continued to star in many of Abbensett’s television productions including Easy Money (1981) and...
Jack Mapanje
...The African Writers’ Handbook (African Book Collective, 1999). He published, as editor, Gathering Seaweed, (Heinemann Educational Books, 2002). Seashells of Bridlington North Beach, which he regarded as his stab at...
Clive Sinclair 1948-2018
...at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and in 1996 the British Library Penguin writer’s fellow. Clive also served as a visiting lecturer at the universities of East Anglia and of...
Denis MacEoin
...him for teaching heretical subjects. He had published two novels by then and decided to leave academe for literature. The Easterman books (many bestsellers) use the thriller genre to explore...
Ann Schlee
...parts of Africa which she remembers from childhood. Jane Gardam, writing about The Time in Aderra (1996), says: ‘She writes historical novels that are more advanced, more interested in feminism,...
Keith Tutt
...started writing prose fiction in 2001. His first novel A to Z was completed under the Arts Council’s escalator scheme, after being selected by the New Writing Partnership in 2005....