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Calder, Barnabas

Barnabas Calder is a historian of architecture specialising in Brutalism – the heavy concrete buildings of the 1960s and ’70s. Having catalogued much of Sir Denys Lasdun’s archive and written several articles and a short book on his work, Barnabas ha...

Calvi, Nuala

Nuala Calvi studied English Literature at the University of Kent before taking a post-graduate qualification in Journalism at London College of Printing. She has written for the Times, Independent, BBC and CNN, and contributed to ten Time Out guides...

Capella, Anthony

Anthony Capella is a food enthusiast based in Oxford, and enjoyed researching Italian feasting. He failed at a variety of careers, from academia to free-range pig-farming, before writing his first novel, THE FOOD OF LOVE. His second novel, THE WEDDIN...

Capps, Ashley

Ashley Capps was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2006, and her first book of poems, MISTAKING THE SEA FOR GREEN FIELDS, was published in 2006....

Carr, J L

James Lloyd Carr (1912-1994), novelist, publisher, maverick of post-war English letters, was born in Thirsk, North Riding. He trained as a teacher, and served as a headmaster for seventeen years. Between 1964 and 1992 he wrote eight novels, several...

Chatfield, Tom

Tom Chatfield is a freelance author, consultant, game writer and theorist. His first book FUN INC. was published worldwide in 2010. Tom has done design, writing and consultancy work for games and media companies, including Google, Mind Candy, VCCP, P...

Cheetham, Ben

Ben Cheetham is an award-winning writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. His writing spans the genres, from horror and sci-fi to literary fiction, but he has a passion for dark, gritty crime fiction. His short stories have been widely published in magazin...

Chesterton, G. K.

G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874, and lived there for more than half his life. He was educated at St Paul’s School, where, despite his efforts to achieve oblivion at the bottom of his class, he was singled out as a boy with distinct liter...

Clark, Alex

Alex Clark has contributed to many publications, notably The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph.. Alex was a judge of Granta's most recent Best of Young British...

Clarke, Sally

Sally Clarke studied cookery at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris, where daily experience of the city’s vegetable markets, cafes and restaurants fired her interest in the world of food and wine. California, where she lived and worked for the next four...

Clewlow, Carol

Carol Clewlow has been a journalist for twenty years in Britain and the Far East. She published her first novel in 1988, the highly acclaimed KEEPING THE FAITH, which was nominated for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Her second, A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO A...

Coates, John

After completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, John Coates worked for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch in New York, trading derivatives. He then ran a derivatives trading desk for Deutsche Bank. He developed techniques for valuing and arbi...

Cobb, Rebecca

Rebecca Cobb grew up in Buckinghamshire and Somerset, surrounded by coloured pencils, felt pens, wax crayons, poster paints and pieces of paper. She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Arts and has been living in Falmouth and working as an il...

Coddington, Grace

Born in Wales in 1941, Grace Coddington won British Vogue Model Competition in 1959 at age 18 and spent her twenties living the life of a top model in London and Paris. In 1968 she joined British Vogue, under the editorship of Beatrix Miller, where s...

Cohen, Morton

Morton N Cohen, Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York, is probably the world’s leading expert on Lewis Carroll. He has also written biographies of Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling. He has written and edited many books on Carroll, i...

Cohen, Nick

Nick Cohen has forged a reputation for himself as the excoriating voice of the far left in his columns in The Observer and the New Statesman. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications including the Independent on Sunday, The London ...

Collett, Peter

For many years Peter Collett was a member of staff at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology, where he taught and researched topics including body language, culture, management style, personality and television audiences. He has...

Collins, Tony

Tony Collins is a British sports and social historian and author specialising in Northern England and rugby football. Collins is a professor of social history at Leeds Metropolitan University.He also acts as a historical consultant to the Rugby Footb...

Collis, John Stewart

John Stewart Collis was born in 1900 of an Irish family. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. Among his publications are SHAW (1925), THE SOUNDING CATARACT (1936), DOWN TO EARTH (1947) – which won the Heinemann Foundation Aw...

Cooke, Ed

Ed Cooke grew up in Thame and studied philosophy and psychology at Oxford and at the Rene Descartes University in Paris. Ed is a "Grandmaster of Memory" and has written pieces about memory for the Times, Observer and Guardian. His first book, REMEMBE...

Corder, Zizou

Zizou Corder is the pseudonym of Louisa Young, writing with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young. Having written a number of books for adults, most recently THE BOOK OF THE HEART, Louisa has collaborated with her daughter on a fantasy trilogy for eigh...

Coveney, Michael

Michael Coveney is chief theatre critic of the leading West End website, Whatsonstage.com. He was born in the East End of London in 1948 and educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He has worked as a teacher, script reader, piano player and journalist...

Cox, Michael (The Estate of)

Michael Cox was born in Northamptonshire. After graduating from Cambridge he went into the music business as a songwriter and recording artist. He then took a job in publishing with the Thorsons Publishing Group and joined Oxford University Press in ...

Craig, Caroline

Caroline, co-author of THE LITTLE BOOK OF LUNCH (with Sophie Missing), lives in London and was educated at Durham University. Her maternal family are fruit farmers and wine producers in Provence. A childhood spent gobbling black truffles, c...

Crane, David

David Crane's first book, LORD BYRON’S JACKAL, a biography of Edward Trelawney, was published to great acclaim in 1998. THE KINDNESS OF SISTERS, a startlingly original look at the relationship between Annabella Milbanke, Byron’s wife, and Augusta Le...

Crane, Nicholas

Nicholas Crane has been a full-time writer since 1979. The author of several travel books, he has also been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Guardian. In 1986 he was part of a two-man team which identified and visited for th...

Craven, Nemonie

Nemonie Craven is the creator of How to Live, a project, founded with Shahidha Bari, dedicated to producing essays, images and arguments for a practical philosophy for life through the How to Live blog and a series of walks, talks and public lectures...

Crompton, Richmal

Richmal Crompton, the creator of the JUST WILLIAM stories, was born in Lancashire in 1890. The first story about William Brown appeared in Home magazine in 1919, and the first collection of WILLIAM stories was published in book form three years late...

Authors: C
Calder, Barnabas
Barnabas Calder is a historian of architecture specialising in Brutalism – the heavy concrete buildings of the 1960s and ’70s. Having catalogued much of Sir Denys Lasdun’s archive and written several articles and a short book on his work, Barnabas ha...
Calvi, Nuala
Nuala Calvi studied English Literature at the University of Kent before taking a post-graduate qualification in Journalism at London College of Printing. She has written for the Times, Independent, BBC and CNN, and contributed to ten Time Out guides...
Capella, Anthony
Anthony Capella is a food enthusiast based in Oxford, and enjoyed researching Italian feasting. He failed at a variety of careers, from academia to free-range pig-farming, before writing his first novel, THE FOOD OF LOVE. His second novel, THE WEDDIN...
Capps, Ashley
Ashley Capps was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2006, and her first book of poems, MISTAKING THE SEA FOR GREEN FIELDS, was published in 2006....
Carr, J L
James Lloyd Carr (1912-1994), novelist, publisher, maverick of post-war English letters, was born in Thirsk, North Riding. He trained as a teacher, and served as a headmaster for seventeen years. Between 1964 and 1992 he wrote eight novels, several...
Chatfield, Tom
Tom Chatfield is a freelance author, consultant, game writer and theorist. His first book FUN INC. was published worldwide in 2010. Tom has done design, writing and consultancy work for games and media companies, including Google, Mind Candy, VCCP, P...
Cheetham, Ben
Ben Cheetham is an award-winning writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. His writing spans the genres, from horror and sci-fi to literary fiction, but he has a passion for dark, gritty crime fiction. His short stories have been widely published in magazin...
Chesterton, G. K.
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874, and lived there for more than half his life. He was educated at St Paul’s School, where, despite his efforts to achieve oblivion at the bottom of his class, he was singled out as a boy with distinct liter...
Clark, Alex
Alex Clark has contributed to many publications, notably The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph.. Alex was a judge of Granta's most recent Best of Young British...
Clarke, Sally
Sally Clarke studied cookery at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris, where daily experience of the city’s vegetable markets, cafes and restaurants fired her interest in the world of food and wine. California, where she lived and worked for the next four...
Clewlow, Carol
Carol Clewlow has been a journalist for twenty years in Britain and the Far East. She published her first novel in 1988, the highly acclaimed KEEPING THE FAITH, which was nominated for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Her second, A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO A...
Coates, John
After completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, John Coates worked for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch in New York, trading derivatives. He then ran a derivatives trading desk for Deutsche Bank. He developed techniques for valuing and arbi...
Cobb, Rebecca
Rebecca Cobb grew up in Buckinghamshire and Somerset, surrounded by coloured pencils, felt pens, wax crayons, poster paints and pieces of paper. She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Arts and has been living in Falmouth and working as an il...
Coddington, Grace
Born in Wales in 1941, Grace Coddington won British Vogue Model Competition in 1959 at age 18 and spent her twenties living the life of a top model in London and Paris. In 1968 she joined British Vogue, under the editorship of Beatrix Miller, where s...
Cohen, Morton
Morton N Cohen, Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York, is probably the world’s leading expert on Lewis Carroll. He has also written biographies of Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling. He has written and edited many books on Carroll, i...
Cohen, Nick
Nick Cohen has forged a reputation for himself as the excoriating voice of the far left in his columns in The Observer and the New Statesman. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications including the Independent on Sunday, The London ...
Collett, Peter
For many years Peter Collett was a member of staff at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology, where he taught and researched topics including body language, culture, management style, personality and television audiences. He has...
Collins, Tony
Tony Collins is a British sports and social historian and author specialising in Northern England and rugby football. Collins is a professor of social history at Leeds Metropolitan University.He also acts as a historical consultant to the Rugby Footb...
Collis, John Stewart
John Stewart Collis was born in 1900 of an Irish family. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. Among his publications are SHAW (1925), THE SOUNDING CATARACT (1936), DOWN TO EARTH (1947) – which won the Heinemann Foundation Aw...
Cooke, Ed
Ed Cooke grew up in Thame and studied philosophy and psychology at Oxford and at the Rene Descartes University in Paris. Ed is a "Grandmaster of Memory" and has written pieces about memory for the Times, Observer and Guardian. His first book, REMEMBE...
Corder, Zizou
Zizou Corder is the pseudonym of Louisa Young, writing with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young. Having written a number of books for adults, most recently THE BOOK OF THE HEART, Louisa has collaborated with her daughter on a fantasy trilogy for eigh...
Coveney, Michael
Michael Coveney is chief theatre critic of the leading West End website, Whatsonstage.com. He was born in the East End of London in 1948 and educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He has worked as a teacher, script reader, piano player and journalist...
Cox, Michael (The Estate of)
Michael Cox was born in Northamptonshire. After graduating from Cambridge he went into the music business as a songwriter and recording artist. He then took a job in publishing with the Thorsons Publishing Group and joined Oxford University Press in ...
Craig, Caroline
Caroline, co-author of THE LITTLE BOOK OF LUNCH (with Sophie Missing), lives in London and was educated at Durham University. Her maternal family are fruit farmers and wine producers in Provence. A childhood spent gobbling black truffles, c...
Crane, David
David Crane's first book, LORD BYRON’S JACKAL, a biography of Edward Trelawney, was published to great acclaim in 1998. THE KINDNESS OF SISTERS, a startlingly original look at the relationship between Annabella Milbanke, Byron’s wife, and Augusta Le...
Crane, Nicholas
Nicholas Crane has been a full-time writer since 1979. The author of several travel books, he has also been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Guardian. In 1986 he was part of a two-man team which identified and visited for th...
Craven, Nemonie
Nemonie Craven is the creator of How to Live, a project, founded with Shahidha Bari, dedicated to producing essays, images and arguments for a practical philosophy for life through the How to Live blog and a series of walks, talks and public lectures...
Crompton, Richmal
Richmal Crompton, the creator of the JUST WILLIAM stories, was born in Lancashire in 1890. The first story about William Brown appeared in Home magazine in 1919, and the first collection of WILLIAM stories was published in book form three years late...