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Gale, Patrick

Born on the Isle of Wight in 1962, Patrick Gale spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, where his father was Governer, then grew up in Winchester. He now lives on a farm near Land’s End. He published his first novel, THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK, at th...

Galloway, Janice

Janice Galloway is the author of five critically celebrated works of fiction. Her first novel, THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING, now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, ...

Ganesh, Janan

Janan Ganesh has been the political correspondent of The Economist, and a member of the parliamentary lobby of journalists, since 2007. Before that, he worked at Policy Exchange, a think tank in Westminster. He is a weekly guest of BBC 1's Sunday Pol...

Garnett, David

David Garnett was born in 1892, the only child of Edward and Constance Garnett. Edward was a critic and publisher's reader who discovered Joseph Conrad and greatly influenced many writers, from D H Lawrence to Henry Green. Constance translated the R...

Gaunt, William

William Gaunt became widely known as an art and social historian through his books on nineteenth-century art and artists. His trilogy of ideas and efforts in the Victorian comprised VICTORIAN OLYMPUS, THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY and THE AESTHETIC ADV...

Gilbert, Martin

Sir Martin Gilbert is one of Britain's most distinguished historians. Born in London in 1936, he went to Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read British Imperial History and Soviet Studies. In 1962 he was elected a Fellow at Mert...

Gilliam, Terry

Terry Gilliam is an illustrator and film-maker....

Gordimer, Nadine

Nadine Gordimer is the author of fourteen novels, including THE LYING DAYS (her first novel), THE CONSERVATIONIST, BURGER'S DAUGHTER, JULY'S PEOPLE, A SPORT OF NATURE, MY SON'S STORY, NONE TO ACCOMPANY ME, THE HOUSE GUN, THE PICKUP and (in 2005) GET ...

Gowers, Rebecca

Rebecca Gowers worked as a freelance journalist and reviewer for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian and the Independent, before doing graduate research at Oxford on the literature of Victorian police detectives. Her sho...

Grace, Ellie

Ellie Grace has been a South Londoner since birth. She has an eye for detail as a keen writer on food and art and has worked in Press & Publishing for international gallery Haunch of Venison and as Website Editor & Staff Writer for Damien Hirst. In 2...

Grant, Linda

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool in 1951 and lives in London. She has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, most notably The Guardian. She is the author of five novels, THE CAST IRON SHORE, which won the David Higham Prize and...

Graves, Robert

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon, son of Alfred Perceval Graves, the Irish writer, and Amalia von Ranke. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. His principal calling was poe...

Greenlaw, Lavinia

Lavinia Greenlaw lives in London, where she was born. She has published four books of poems. MINSK was shortlisted for the Forward, T.S. Eliot and Whitbread poetry awards. Her latest collection, THE CASUAL PERFECT, was published in September 2011. H...

Greenstock, Sir Jeremy

Sir Jeremy Greenstock is a distinguished former diplomat, who most recently served as Britain's Special Envoy to Iraq. He started his career in the British Embassy in Dubai and has since worked over the world in Riyadh, Paris, and Washington....