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Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. She is the author of The Rental Heart and Other Fairytale...

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Michael Longley

Poet Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Instit...

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Tim Lott

Writer and journalist Tim Lott was born in 1956 in Southall, Middlesex, England and studied Politics...

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Phil Lovesey

Phil Lovesey was born in 1963, the son of award-winning crime writer Peter Lovesey. He studied art a...

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Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey (born 1936) is a prolific writer of historical and traditional crime fiction. He read ...

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Hannah Lowe

Hannah Lowe is a writer living in London.Her first poetry collection Chick was published by Bloodaxe...

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Philip MacCann

Philip MacCann was born in Manchester, England in 1966. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin an...

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Sharman Macdonald

Playwright and novelist Sharman Macdonald was born in Glasgow in 1951. Educated at the University of...

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Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane was born in Oxford in 1976 and is a travel writer, nature writer and critic. He st...

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Shena Mackay

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. She left school at the age of 16 after winning a poetry ...

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Lachlan Mackinnon

Lachlan Mackinnon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1956 and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Chu...

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller, writer and lecturer. He studied at Oxford University ...

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Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942, and moved to Scotland in 1975, where he lived in Edi...

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Rory MacLean

Rory MacLean was born and educated in Canada.As a child he made a cardboard-and-crayon world atlas, ...

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Aonghas MacNeacail
Aonghas Macneacail

Aonghas Macneacail was born in 1942 on the Isle of Skye, and attended Glasgow University from 1968-1...

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Sabrina Mahfouz

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer, performer and educator. She was raised in London and C...

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Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941.He studied French Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and...

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Sara Maitland
Sara Maitland

Sara Maitland is a novelist and short story writer. Born in 1950, she grew up in Galloway, studied a...

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David Malouf

David Malouf was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1934 to a Lebanese-Christian father and English-J...

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Bidisha Mamata

Bidisha Mamata is a British writer and broadcaster based in London. Educated at Oxford University an...

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