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Bari, Shahidha

Shahidha Bari is a writer and academic working in the fields of literature, culture and philosophy. She studied at Cambridge and Cornell, and is a Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in the Romantic period, and her academic ...

Baring, Maurice

Maurice Baring was born in Mayfair in 1874 and educated at Eton and Cambridge. A talent for languages led him into diplomatic service in Paris, Copenhagen and Rome. He resigned in 1904 but continued to travel, as a newspaper correspondent, to Russi...

Barnham, Lu

Lu Barnham grew up in Yorkshire. Dividing her time between bookselling and travelling, she has explored over 60 countries. Before embarking on the African Alphabet journey, she made a solo expedition to the Japanese island of Shikoku to walk an 850...

Barrett, Angela

Angela Barrett studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has taught Illustration at Cambridge College of Technology, and Drawing at Chelsea College. Her first published illustrations, for THE KING, THE CAT AND THE FI...

Barrett, Duncan

Duncan Barrett graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in 2005 with a double first in English. He is the co-author of STAR TREK: THE HUMAN FRONTIER (2000). He recently edited Vitali Vitaliev’s PASSPORT TO ENCLAVIA (2008), and was assistant editor f...

Barry, Sebastian

Novelist, poet and playwright Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955 and attended Trinity College, Dublin. He has written for the theatre since 1986, his prize-winning plays OUR LADY OF SLIGO and THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM receiving rave reviews...

Bartley, Luella

Born in 1974 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Luella Bartley trained at Central Saint Martins before working as a journalist on Vogue and the London Evening Standard. Ten years ago she decided to set up her own fashion label and gave her first collection the ...

Basini, Justin

Justin is a world-leading marketing thinker. Increasingly concerned with the impact of brands and marketing on our society and how businesses can regain the trust of people and communities, Justin is working on several new projects which will launch ...

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

Established in 1860, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home aims to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help. They reunite lost dogs and cats with their owners through their Lost Dogs & Cats Line or care for them until new homes can be found, pr...

Bearn, Emily

Emily Bearn grew up in London and is a journalist. She has worked for Harpers & Queen magazine, the Times and the Sunday Telegraph. She lives in London....

Beaulieu, Denyse

Denyse Beaulieu was born in Winnipeg, Canada, where she learnt French from her parents and English from the rest of the world, which makes her a rare bird: a writer equally proficient in both languages. She started out as a rock critic in Montreal du...

Benmore, James

James Benmore is writing his first novel, DODGER, which follows the continuing adventures of Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger from OLIVER TWIST. It was awarded the AM Heath prize at Oxford in 2010 (for best work of fiction by a writer ...

Benson, E F

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the ...

Blackwood, Algernon

Algernon Blackwood, born in 1869, is considered one of the great modern masters of the supernatural story and one of the most brilliant mystic storytellers since Edgar Allan Poe. He established his reputation with a series of powerful short-story co...

Blake, Daniel

Daniel Blake is the pseudonym of award-winning novelist and screenwriter Boris Starling. WHITE DEATH is his seventh book, and he also created the BBC1 franchise ‘Messiah’ which ran for five series. He lives in Dorset with his wife and chi...

Blake, Quentin

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember and has always made his living as an illustrator, though for many years he taught at the Royal College of Art, where he was Head of the Illustration Department from 1978 to1986. He is known f...

Bonna, Katie

Katie is an playwright, actress and performance poet. Her poetry play Dirty Great Love Story, co-written with Richard Marsh, won a Fringe First Award at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she was also nominated for Best Actress by The Stage. O...

Bowlby, Rachel

Rachel Bowlby is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She grew up in Billingham-on-Tees, Croydon, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied at Oxford and Yale, where ...

Boyes, Roger

Roger Boyes is a writer and prize-winning European correspondent for The Times newspaper. He has been reporting from Iceland since he was sent on his first foreign assignment to cover the Cod Wars in 1976 and is the author of eleven previous books....

Briggs, Katharine

Katharine Briggs was born in 1898, one of the three daughters of Ernest Briggs, the watercolourist. She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, gaining her D.Phil. with a thesis on folklore in 17th century literature, and became a D.Litt., Oxon ...

Brooks, Ben

Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is the author of five books and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize....

Broom, Oli

Oli Broom was born and brought up in Berkshire, and read French and Spanish at Durham University. He worked for an international commercial property consultancy in London after completing his studies in 2004, but after five years he began to feel the...

Brown, Jane

Jane Brown is the author of several books on eminent gardeners, including GARDENS OF A GOLDEN AFTERNOON, the story of Edwin Luytens’s partnership with Gertrude Jekyll, which has become a much-loved classic all over the world. Her other books have in...

Brown, Louise

Louise Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches on South Asian societies, the global sex industry, and sexuality and gender issues. She has lived and worked in Asia, including spend...

Buchan, John

John Buchan was born in Perth, in 1875, the son of a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. In 1876 his family moved to Fife, where as a small boy he walked six miles a day in order to attend the local school, and then later to the Gorbals in Glas...

Buckley, Jonathan

Jonathan Buckley is the author of eight published novels: THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS LANG, XERXES, GHOST MACINDOE, INVISIBLE, SO HE TAKES THE DOG, CONTACT, TELESCOPE and NOSTALGIA, all of which have been published to excellent reviews. He lives in...

Buckley-Archer, Linda

Linda Buckley-Archer was born in Sussex and spent much of her childhood in rural Staffordshire, before settling in London, where she now lives with her husband and two children. Originally trained as a linguist, she lectured in French for some years...

Bunting, Madeleine

Madeleine Bunting is a columnist and leader writer at The Guardian. She writes on social change, globalisation, science, environment and ethical issues. After studying history at Cambridge and Harvard and a stint as a television researcher, Madelei...

Burgess, Melvin

Melvin Burgess was born in 1954 and was brought up in Sussex and Berkshire. He started writing in his twenties, and wrote on and off for fifteen years before having his first book, THE CRY OF THE WOLF, published in 1990. In 1997 his controversial b...

Bussmann, Kate

A magazine and newspaper journalist, Kate Bussmann has been published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Red, InStyle, Marie Claire, Grazia, Stylist, Psychologies and many other titles around the world. She has written about mov...

Byng, Georgia

Georgia Byng trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama and between acting jobs started writing and illustrating stories for children. Georgia has published picture books: THE SOCK MONSTERS (Orion), JACK'S TREE (A&C Black) and ...

Authors: B
Bari, Shahidha
Shahidha Bari is a writer and academic working in the fields of literature, culture and philosophy. She studied at Cambridge and Cornell, and is a Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in the Romantic period, and her academic ...
Baring, Maurice
Maurice Baring was born in Mayfair in 1874 and educated at Eton and Cambridge. A talent for languages led him into diplomatic service in Paris, Copenhagen and Rome. He resigned in 1904 but continued to travel, as a newspaper correspondent, to Russi...
Barnham, Lu
Lu Barnham grew up in Yorkshire. Dividing her time between bookselling and travelling, she has explored over 60 countries. Before embarking on the African Alphabet journey, she made a solo expedition to the Japanese island of Shikoku to walk an 850...
Barrett, Angela
Angela Barrett studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has taught Illustration at Cambridge College of Technology, and Drawing at Chelsea College. Her first published illustrations, for THE KING, THE CAT AND THE FI...
Barrett, Duncan
Duncan Barrett graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in 2005 with a double first in English. He is the co-author of STAR TREK: THE HUMAN FRONTIER (2000). He recently edited Vitali Vitaliev’s PASSPORT TO ENCLAVIA (2008), and was assistant editor f...
Barry, Sebastian
Novelist, poet and playwright Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955 and attended Trinity College, Dublin. He has written for the theatre since 1986, his prize-winning plays OUR LADY OF SLIGO and THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM receiving rave reviews...
Bartley, Luella
Born in 1974 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Luella Bartley trained at Central Saint Martins before working as a journalist on Vogue and the London Evening Standard. Ten years ago she decided to set up her own fashion label and gave her first collection the ...
Basini, Justin
Justin is a world-leading marketing thinker. Increasingly concerned with the impact of brands and marketing on our society and how businesses can regain the trust of people and communities, Justin is working on several new projects which will launch ...
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Established in 1860, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home aims to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help. They reunite lost dogs and cats with their owners through their Lost Dogs & Cats Line or care for them until new homes can be found, pr...
Bearn, Emily
Emily Bearn grew up in London and is a journalist. She has worked for Harpers & Queen magazine, the Times and the Sunday Telegraph. She lives in London....
Beaulieu, Denyse
Denyse Beaulieu was born in Winnipeg, Canada, where she learnt French from her parents and English from the rest of the world, which makes her a rare bird: a writer equally proficient in both languages. She started out as a rock critic in Montreal du...
Benmore, James
James Benmore is writing his first novel, DODGER, which follows the continuing adventures of Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger from OLIVER TWIST. It was awarded the AM Heath prize at Oxford in 2010 (for best work of fiction by a writer ...
Benson, E F
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the ...
Blackwood, Algernon
Algernon Blackwood, born in 1869, is considered one of the great modern masters of the supernatural story and one of the most brilliant mystic storytellers since Edgar Allan Poe. He established his reputation with a series of powerful short-story co...
Blake, Daniel
Daniel Blake is the pseudonym of award-winning novelist and screenwriter Boris Starling. WHITE DEATH is his seventh book, and he also created the BBC1 franchise ‘Messiah’ which ran for five series. He lives in Dorset with his wife and chi...
Blake, Quentin
Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember and has always made his living as an illustrator, though for many years he taught at the Royal College of Art, where he was Head of the Illustration Department from 1978 to1986. He is known f...
Bonna, Katie
Katie is an playwright, actress and performance poet. Her poetry play Dirty Great Love Story, co-written with Richard Marsh, won a Fringe First Award at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she was also nominated for Best Actress by The Stage. O...
Bowlby, Rachel
Rachel Bowlby is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She grew up in Billingham-on-Tees, Croydon, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied at Oxford and Yale, where ...
Boyes, Roger
Roger Boyes is a writer and prize-winning European correspondent for The Times newspaper. He has been reporting from Iceland since he was sent on his first foreign assignment to cover the Cod Wars in 1976 and is the author of eleven previous books....
Briggs, Katharine
Katharine Briggs was born in 1898, one of the three daughters of Ernest Briggs, the watercolourist. She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, gaining her D.Phil. with a thesis on folklore in 17th century literature, and became a D.Litt., Oxon ...
Brooks, Ben
Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is the author of five books and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize....
Broom, Oli
Oli Broom was born and brought up in Berkshire, and read French and Spanish at Durham University. He worked for an international commercial property consultancy in London after completing his studies in 2004, but after five years he began to feel the...
Brown, Jane
Jane Brown is the author of several books on eminent gardeners, including GARDENS OF A GOLDEN AFTERNOON, the story of Edwin Luytens’s partnership with Gertrude Jekyll, which has become a much-loved classic all over the world. Her other books have in...
Brown, Louise
Louise Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches on South Asian societies, the global sex industry, and sexuality and gender issues. She has lived and worked in Asia, including spend...
Buchan, John
John Buchan was born in Perth, in 1875, the son of a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. In 1876 his family moved to Fife, where as a small boy he walked six miles a day in order to attend the local school, and then later to the Gorbals in Glas...
Buckley, Jonathan
Jonathan Buckley is the author of eight published novels: THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS LANG, XERXES, GHOST MACINDOE, INVISIBLE, SO HE TAKES THE DOG, CONTACT, TELESCOPE and NOSTALGIA, all of which have been published to excellent reviews. He lives in...
Buckley-Archer, Linda
Linda Buckley-Archer was born in Sussex and spent much of her childhood in rural Staffordshire, before settling in London, where she now lives with her husband and two children. Originally trained as a linguist, she lectured in French for some years...
Bunting, Madeleine
Madeleine Bunting is a columnist and leader writer at The Guardian. She writes on social change, globalisation, science, environment and ethical issues. After studying history at Cambridge and Harvard and a stint as a television researcher, Madelei...
Burgess, Melvin
Melvin Burgess was born in 1954 and was brought up in Sussex and Berkshire. He started writing in his twenties, and wrote on and off for fifteen years before having his first book, THE CRY OF THE WOLF, published in 1990. In 1997 his controversial b...
Bussmann, Kate
A magazine and newspaper journalist, Kate Bussmann has been published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Red, InStyle, Marie Claire, Grazia, Stylist, Psychologies and many other titles around the world. She has written about mov...
Byng, Georgia
Georgia Byng trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama and between acting jobs started writing and illustrating stories for children. Georgia has published picture books: THE SOCK MONSTERS (Orion), JACK'S TREE (A&C Black) and ...