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Clare Morgan is a fiction writer and literary critic. Her collection of short stories, Scar Tissue, was published in 2022,…

S. W. Williams has published books under three different names, each of which marks a different phase of her writing…

Sally Bayley is a non-fiction writer whose work explores the relationship between biography, autobiography, memoir and literary fiction. Her book,…

Nigel Cliff is an acclaimed nonfiction writer specialising in cultural history and the history of exploration. His first book, The…

Max Eilenberg writes mainly for children. He is the author of original picture books (Cowboy Kid and Squeak’s Good Idea)…

Catherine Bailey is a television producer and a bestselling writer of non-fiction. Before embarking on her publishing career, she produced…

Hugh Thomson is one of Britain’s leading travel writers who won the inaugural Wainwright Prize from a shortlist that included The…

Mike Harris is a scriptwriter and theatre director. He has written over 150 scripts for radio, stage and television, including…

Deborah Bosley’s writing career began in 1987 with The Rough Guide to California and The Rough Guide to San Francisco.…

Candida Crewe was born in London in 1964. She wrote her first novel when she was eighteen, and has written…

William Bedford’s poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in magazines around the world, including the Daily Telegraph, Encounter, Harpers…

Jane Bingham is a versatile writer for children and teenagers. Over the past 12 years, she has written more than…

Born in 1956, Tim Pears grew up in Devon, left school at 16 and worked in a wide variety of…

Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic who has also worked in journalism and publishing. Her first biography, Nancy Cunard (1979), won…

Jane Draycott is a poet whose collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant, Over (nominated for the 2009 T.S. Eliot…

Neil Rollinson is a prize-winning poet and story writer. He is the recipient of a Cholmondeley award for poetry and…

Mario Petrucci is a poet and educator of international standing, and a leading exponent for site-specific and public poetry in…

Henry Shukman wrote a travel book Sons of the Moon (Flamingo) at the age of nineteen, followed by Travels with…

Alex Martin writes fiction and history. His five novels for children, beginning with Boris the Tomato, took big themes, such…

Jo Shapcott won the Forward Prize for her collection, My Life Asleep, in 1999. For two years from 1998 she…

Caroline Moorehead is a biographer and journalist. She has written five biographies: of Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Schliemann, Freya Stark and…

Carole Angier is the award-winning biographer of Jean Rhys and Primo Levi. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal…