Writers Directory

Matt Haig was born in 1975 in Sheffield, and grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire. He studied at Hull ...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Poetry

Playwright Lee Hall was born in Newcastle in 1966. His acclaimed play Spoonface Steinberg (1997), a ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She took a degree in English and Art History at Aberystwyth ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Steven Hall was born in Derbyshire in 1975. His first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, won the Borders Or...

Genres:

• Fiction

Mohsin Hamid was born in 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan, and moved to the US at the age of 18 to study at ...

Genres:

• Fiction

Christopher Hampton is a playwright, screenwriter, director and producer. Born in 1946 in Portugal, ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in ...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Frances Hardinge was born in Kent. She enjoyed a bookish childhood in an isolated old house on a hil...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Young Adult

Playwright Sir David Hare was born in Bexhill, East Sussex, England on 5 June 1947, and was educated...

Genres:

• Drama
• Non-Fiction

Robert Harris was born in Nottingham in 1957, later studying English at Cambridge University. He was...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Born in Guyana in 1921, and studying at Queen’s College, Georgetown, Guyana, Sir Wilson Harris becam...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories
• Translation

Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Mo...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction

Tony Harrison is Britain's leading film and theatre poet. He has written for the National Theatre in...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry

Playwright David Harrower was born in Edinburgh in 1966. His first play, Knives in Hens (1997), was ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Translation

David Harsent has received a number of literary awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, an Eric Greg...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Libretto
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Samantha Harvey was born in Kent in 1975. She studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa Univ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

James Hawes was born in 1960 and grew up in Gloucestershire, Edinburgh and Shropshire. After graduat...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Mo Hayder is an author of crime and thriller fiction. She left school at 15, and after a series of j...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Graphic novels and Illustration

Emma Healey was born in London in 1985. She completed a foundation year at Central Saint Martins Col...

Genres:

• Fiction

Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow in 1953. His Mobil prize-winning play, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (198...

Genres:

• Drama
• Poetry
• Short Stories