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Claire Fuller gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start wr...
Richard Byrne is a dramatist and journalist. He was the editor of The Wilson Quarterly from 2019 to 2021. His work has appeared in The New R...
Angela Tomaski was born in Oxford and raised in Somerset with her four brothers and sisters. She has had a variety of different jobs, includ...
Sian Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire. Her first collection of poetry The Missing was a Poetry Society Recommen...
Elizabeth Arnott is an award-winning writer and journalist and has written critically acclaimed historical fiction as Lizzie Pook. Her work...
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of four novels, including The Water Cure and Cursed Bread. She has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize...
John Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain , Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the G...
Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became a...
Isabel Waidner is the author of five novels – including Sterling Karat Gold , which won the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Orw...
Francis Spufford is the author of three novels and five works of non-fiction. His debut work of fiction was the historical novel Golden Hill...
James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and...
Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels including This Bleeding City , The Revelations , In Love and War and Winchelsea , as...
Originally from Leicester, Manish Chauhan works as a finance lawyer and currently lives in East London. His short story, "Pieces", was short...
George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo , which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five col...
Grace Murray was born in 2003 and grew up in Norwich. She has recently graduated from Edinburgh University, where she read English Literatur...
Daniyal Mueenuddin graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. After winning a Fulbright scholarship to study in Norway, he practi...
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestse...
Jarett Kobek is an internationally bestselling Turkish-American writer living in California. His previous books have been translated into el...
Miriam Robinson is an author who has worked in the world of books and bookshops for over 15 years. Previously the host of podcast My Unlived...
Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at Oxford University, and is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. His debut trade non-fictio...
Ziyad Marar is a publisher and author of The Happiness Paradox , Deception , Intimacy and Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood . On this...
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature an...
Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London. Her writing has notably appeared in the Los Angeles Times , the Nation and Guard...
James Rebanks is a farmer and writer based in the Lake District. His No. 1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd’s Life , was translated into sixt...
Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt , Stiff , and, most recently, Fuzz . Her writing has app...
Thomas McMullan lives and works in London. His debut novel, The Last Good Man , won the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. His short fiction has been p...
Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment , Melmoth , The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood...
Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss , which won both the Booker...
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury , The Children of Jocasta , A Thousand Ships , which was sho...
Patrick Ryan's short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the St. Louis Times-Dispat...
Miriam Toews is the author of the bestselling novels Women Talking , All My Puny Sorrows , Summer of My Amazing Luck , A Boy of Good Breedin...
Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of Wise Men , The Inseparables , Room...
Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognised as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writer...
Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. On this episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about Outc...
Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London. Her first novel Golden Child won...
Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and the Wall Stre...
Brandy Schillace is a historian, former professor and museum professional, and former editor of Medical Humanities , a social-justice journa...
Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move . She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the...
David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book, Footprints: In Search of Fu...
Marie Rutkoski is a New York Times bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest...
Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize....
Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. Her debut novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life was longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Award. She is al...
Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, and the nonfiction books The Sting and Always...
Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars , which was longlisted for the Baillie Giff...
Daria Lavelle writes fiction, most of which features at least one impossible thing. Her stories have appeared in Dark Matter , The Deadlands...
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends , which was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire...
Cate Baum was born in Cambridge to a magician and a big band singer. She grew up in the East Anglian countryside, spending summers roaming t...
Eley Williams' collection of short stories Attrib. & Other Stories won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial...
Simon Park is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s Colleg...
Danielle Giles is a writer and researcher based in Bristol. She has been published (writing as Danielle Vrublevskis) in Extra Teeth and Dear...