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MacArthur, Ellen

Ellen MacArthur was born in Derbyshire in 1977. Already a star in sailing circles and in France, her achievements captured the attention of a wider public when she competed in the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world yacht race from November 2000 to Feb...

Macintyre, Magnus

Growing up in Oxford and on the west coast of Scotland, and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, Magnus was first an actor-producer and then an arts journalist on the Independent on Sunday before starting up a technology magazine from his bedroom an...

MacKenney, Eileen

Eileen MacKenney was the wife of Harry "Big H" MacKenney, who was once Britain's most wanted man and who served twenty-three years in prison for murders he did not commit. Eileen is currently writing a memoir of her life, including her early years i...

Madden, Deirdre

Deirdre Madden was born in Toomebridge in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where she won the Costello Award for English Literature. Her early short stories were published in Ireland in various magazines, and ...

Maddox, Brenda

Born and brought up in Massachusetts and with a degree in English literature from Harvard, Brenda Maddox is a long-time resident of the UK. For many years she was Home Affairs Editor of The Economist. She is now a biographer of international repute....

Mangan, Lucy

Lucy Mangan is a journalist and columnist. She was educated in Catford and Cambridge. She studied English at the latter and then spent two years training as a solicitor, but left as soon as she qualified and went to work much more happily in a booksh...

Martin, Felix

Felix Martin was born in Oxford in 1974. He was educated in the UK, Italy, and the US, where he was a Fulbright scholar; and has degrees in classics, international relations and economics. Between 1998 and 2008 Felix worked at the World Bank, mo...

Mason, A E W

A E W Mason was born in 1865. He became a successful novelist after failing to become an actor. He is best remembered for THE FOUR FEATHERS (1902, with a film version in 1939). His many other popular works include the series featuring Inspector Ha...

Matthews, Owen

Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade during the Bosnian civil war, w...

Maugham, W Somerset

W Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. He achieved fame in 1907 with the production of LADY FRIEDRICH, and by 1908 he had four plays running simultaneously in London...

Mayhew, Jenny

Jenny Mayhew has worked as a television documentary researcher, a film screenwriter and a university lecturer. Her screenplay for the English civil war film ‘To Kill a King’ (FilmFour 2003) led to a BAFTA nomination for the Carl Foreman Award in 2004...

Mayhew, Julie

Julie is an actress turned writer who still acts but mostly writes. She has modelled for Rankin, used to read the traffic and travel news for Chris Evans and once worked in a prison. Julie has written two critically acclaimed Afternoon Plays for BBC...

McDonald, John

John McDonald was born in Southern Ireland, and moved to London when he was a teenager. He was educated at St Mary’s Secondary Academy and the London South Bank University. John began his writing career in the theatre, with his first play being produ...

McEwen, Todd

Todd McEwen was born in California. He escaped first to the East Coast, and then to Europe in the early 1980s. He has published numerous short stories and five novels: Fisher's Hornpipe, McX: A Romance of the Dour, Arithmetic, Who Sleeps with Katz,...

McGee, Alan

Alan McGee has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian. McGee is best known for co-forming and running the independent Creation Records label from 1983–1999, and then Poptones from 1999-2007. He has managed a...

McIlvanney, Liam

Liam McIlvanney is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, NZ. His first book, BURNS THE RADICAL, won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He is a contributor to the London Review of Books. His first novel was ALL THE COL...

McKie, Robin

Robin McKie is the science editor at The Observer and the author of several popular science books including THE BOOK OF MAN, which was co-authored with the distinguished geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer. Published by Little, Brown, THE BOOK OF MAN was s...

McNamee, Eoin

Eoin McNamee was born in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1961. His first book was a collection of two novellas, THE LAST OF DEEDS, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature, and LOVE IN HISTORY. He was aw...

Medina, Jamie-James

Jamie-James Medina was born in London and grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As a photographer he has produced covers and features for every major UK broadsheet, reporting on cultural personalities like Al Gore, Gilbert and George, Bruce Springsteen and ...

Meek, James

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. He has published three novels, MCFARLANE BOILS THE SEA, DRIVETIME and THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE, and two collections of short stories, LAST ORDERS and, most recently, THE MUSEUM OF DOUBT. He...

Meyer, Liran

Liran was born in a tiny village in the middle of the Middle Eastern desert with a population of less than 200. Aged 6, she moved to London with her parents where she began her indiscriminate love affair with languages and literature. She has studied...

Mills, Selina

Selina Mills is a freelance writer and journalist and divides her time between the Highlands of Scotland and London. Educated at Harvard and Brown Universities in the USA, she returned to the UK in 1996 to complete an MPhil at Cambridge University o...

Missing, Sophie

Mistry, Rohinton

Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories, TALES FROM FIROZSHA BAAG. All three of his novels - SUCH A LONG JOURNEY, A FINE BALANCE and FAMILY MATTERS - have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for fiction....

Moring, Marcel

Marcel Moring was born in 1957 in Enschede, Holland. He is widely considered the leading Dutch author of the day. Publication of his first novel, MENDEL, was an instant success, winning the Geertjan Lubberhuizen Prize for Best Debut of 1990. His s...

Morley, Carol

Carol Morley left school at sixteen and formed her Manchester band TOT who were “going to be bigger than the Beatles before the next gas bill came around” but never were. After this she moved to Devon and London before eventually going to...

Morris, Jan

One of our most eminent writers, Jan Morris, who was born in 1926, lived and wrote in the name of James Morris until her change of sexual role in the early 1970s. She has published some 40 books. They include the PAX BRITANNICA trilogy, about the ...

Morrison, Arthur

Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was born in Poplar. Of working-class background, he worked at the People’s Palace, a purpose-built educational institution offering courses designed to enhance the social, intellectual and cultural awareness of London’s r...

Mullan, John

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Most recently he is the author of HOW NOVELS WORK (OUP) and ANONYMITY: A SECRET HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (...

Mulligan, Harry

Harry originally underwent chef training in the USA, but returned to the UK to read Jt Hons BSc in Psychology and Sociology at the University of Bristol. He went on to train at Promis London under Dr Robert Lefever, the acclaimed addiction specialist...

Murray, Paul

Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and took a master's degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. A former bookseller, Murray lives in Dublin. His first novel, AN EVENING OF LONG GOODB...

Authors: M
MacArthur, Ellen
Ellen MacArthur was born in Derbyshire in 1977. Already a star in sailing circles and in France, her achievements captured the attention of a wider public when she competed in the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world yacht race from November 2000 to Feb...
Macintyre, Magnus
Growing up in Oxford and on the west coast of Scotland, and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, Magnus was first an actor-producer and then an arts journalist on the Independent on Sunday before starting up a technology magazine from his bedroom an...
MacKenney, Eileen
Eileen MacKenney was the wife of Harry "Big H" MacKenney, who was once Britain's most wanted man and who served twenty-three years in prison for murders he did not commit. Eileen is currently writing a memoir of her life, including her early years i...
Madden, Deirdre
Deirdre Madden was born in Toomebridge in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where she won the Costello Award for English Literature. Her early short stories were published in Ireland in various magazines, and ...
Maddox, Brenda
Born and brought up in Massachusetts and with a degree in English literature from Harvard, Brenda Maddox is a long-time resident of the UK. For many years she was Home Affairs Editor of The Economist. She is now a biographer of international repute....
Mangan, Lucy
Lucy Mangan is a journalist and columnist. She was educated in Catford and Cambridge. She studied English at the latter and then spent two years training as a solicitor, but left as soon as she qualified and went to work much more happily in a booksh...
Martin, Felix
Felix Martin was born in Oxford in 1974. He was educated in the UK, Italy, and the US, where he was a Fulbright scholar; and has degrees in classics, international relations and economics. Between 1998 and 2008 Felix worked at the World Bank, mo...
Mason, A E W
A E W Mason was born in 1865. He became a successful novelist after failing to become an actor. He is best remembered for THE FOUR FEATHERS (1902, with a film version in 1939). His many other popular works include the series featuring Inspector Ha...
Matthews, Owen
Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade during the Bosnian civil war, w...
Maugham, W Somerset
W Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. He achieved fame in 1907 with the production of LADY FRIEDRICH, and by 1908 he had four plays running simultaneously in London...
Mayhew, Jenny
Jenny Mayhew has worked as a television documentary researcher, a film screenwriter and a university lecturer. Her screenplay for the English civil war film ‘To Kill a King’ (FilmFour 2003) led to a BAFTA nomination for the Carl Foreman Award in 2004...
Mayhew, Julie
Julie is an actress turned writer who still acts but mostly writes. She has modelled for Rankin, used to read the traffic and travel news for Chris Evans and once worked in a prison. Julie has written two critically acclaimed Afternoon Plays for BBC...
McDonald, John
John McDonald was born in Southern Ireland, and moved to London when he was a teenager. He was educated at St Mary’s Secondary Academy and the London South Bank University. John began his writing career in the theatre, with his first play being produ...
McEwen, Todd
Todd McEwen was born in California. He escaped first to the East Coast, and then to Europe in the early 1980s. He has published numerous short stories and five novels: Fisher's Hornpipe, McX: A Romance of the Dour, Arithmetic, Who Sleeps with Katz,...
McGee, Alan
Alan McGee has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian. McGee is best known for co-forming and running the independent Creation Records label from 1983–1999, and then Poptones from 1999-2007. He has managed a...
McIlvanney, Liam
Liam McIlvanney is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, NZ. His first book, BURNS THE RADICAL, won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He is a contributor to the London Review of Books. His first novel was ALL THE COL...
McKie, Robin
Robin McKie is the science editor at The Observer and the author of several popular science books including THE BOOK OF MAN, which was co-authored with the distinguished geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer. Published by Little, Brown, THE BOOK OF MAN was s...
McNamee, Eoin
Eoin McNamee was born in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1961. His first book was a collection of two novellas, THE LAST OF DEEDS, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature, and LOVE IN HISTORY. He was aw...
Medina, Jamie-James
Jamie-James Medina was born in London and grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As a photographer he has produced covers and features for every major UK broadsheet, reporting on cultural personalities like Al Gore, Gilbert and George, Bruce Springsteen and ...
Meek, James
James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. He has published three novels, MCFARLANE BOILS THE SEA, DRIVETIME and THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE, and two collections of short stories, LAST ORDERS and, most recently, THE MUSEUM OF DOUBT. He...
Meyer, Liran
Liran was born in a tiny village in the middle of the Middle Eastern desert with a population of less than 200. Aged 6, she moved to London with her parents where she began her indiscriminate love affair with languages and literature. She has studied...
Mills, Selina
Selina Mills is a freelance writer and journalist and divides her time between the Highlands of Scotland and London. Educated at Harvard and Brown Universities in the USA, she returned to the UK in 1996 to complete an MPhil at Cambridge University o...
Missing, Sophie

Mistry, Rohinton
Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories, TALES FROM FIROZSHA BAAG. All three of his novels - SUCH A LONG JOURNEY, A FINE BALANCE and FAMILY MATTERS - have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for fiction....
Moring, Marcel
Marcel Moring was born in 1957 in Enschede, Holland. He is widely considered the leading Dutch author of the day. Publication of his first novel, MENDEL, was an instant success, winning the Geertjan Lubberhuizen Prize for Best Debut of 1990. His s...
Morley, Carol
Carol Morley left school at sixteen and formed her Manchester band TOT who were “going to be bigger than the Beatles before the next gas bill came around” but never were. After this she moved to Devon and London before eventually going to...
Morris, Jan
One of our most eminent writers, Jan Morris, who was born in 1926, lived and wrote in the name of James Morris until her change of sexual role in the early 1970s. She has published some 40 books. They include the PAX BRITANNICA trilogy, about the ...
Morrison, Arthur
Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was born in Poplar. Of working-class background, he worked at the People’s Palace, a purpose-built educational institution offering courses designed to enhance the social, intellectual and cultural awareness of London’s r...
Mullan, John
John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Most recently he is the author of HOW NOVELS WORK (OUP) and ANONYMITY: A SECRET HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (...
Mulligan, Harry
Harry originally underwent chef training in the USA, but returned to the UK to read Jt Hons BSc in Psychology and Sociology at the University of Bristol. He went on to train at Promis London under Dr Robert Lefever, the acclaimed addiction specialist...
Murray, Paul
Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and took a master's degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. A former bookseller, Murray lives in Dublin. His first novel, AN EVENING OF LONG GOODB...