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Michael Holroyd

Biographer Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and was educated at Eton College. His first book was a b...

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Christopher Hope

Novelist Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944. He was educated at the uni...

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Mererid Hopwood

Mererid Hopwood was born in Cardiff and now lives in Carmarthen. A first-language Welsh-speaker, she...

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Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1957. He graduated from Cambridge University an...

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Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz is best known as a screenwriter and children's novelist. Born in 1955 in North Lond...

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Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983 and moved to England as a child. Sarah was a Poetry Society...

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Kerry Hudson

Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Growing up in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan ...

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Declan Hughes

Declan Hughes is a crime novelist, a screenwriter and an award-winning playwright. He co-founded Rou...

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Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. She was born in 1967 in and br...

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Biographer, critic and journalist Lucy Hughes-Hallett was born in 1951. She was educated at Bedford ...

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Michael Hulse

Michael Hulse is a poet, translator and critic. Born in 1955, he was brought up in Stoke-on-Trent an...

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Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys was born in Prestatyn, Wales, in 1919 and now lives on Anglesey.He is a writer of nov...

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Andrew Hussey

Andrew Hussey is a cultural historian and biographer. He grew up in Liverpool, and studied at Manche...

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M. J. Hyland

M. J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent her early childhood in Dublin. Sh...

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Ed Hillyer – also known as ILYA – is a British writer and artist. His books include the award-winnin...

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his ...

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Ian Jack

Ian Jack became the editor of Granta magazine in 1995, and remained in the post until 2007. Previous...

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Howard Jacobson

Born in Manchester, England in 1942, novelist and broadcaster Howard Jacobson was educated at Cambri...

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Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1962. She studied philosophy at Edinburgh Unive...

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Oliver Jeffers

From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Oliver Jeffers’ w...

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