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Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and grew up in London. His debut novel, Remainder, was initially rejec...

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Karen McCarthy Woolf

Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. Her groundb...

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Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean was born in 1951 and brought up in North London.She studied at Christ Church C...

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Val McDermid

Crime writer Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and studied English at Oxford University. ...

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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. He spent much of his childh...

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Roger McGough

Award-winning poet, playwright, broadcaster and children's author Roger McGough was born on 9 Novemb...

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Claire McGowan

Claire McGowan was born in Northern Ireland in 1981. She grew up in a village where the most excitin...

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Jon McGregor

Jon McGregor was born in Bermuda in 1976. He moved with his family to England and spent his childhoo...

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Medbh McGuckian

Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast on 12 August 1950 and educated at a Dominican convent and Queen'...

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Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968.  He is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, where...

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Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire where she grew up the eldest of four girls in a family...

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Jamie McKendrick

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955, studied at Nottingham University and taught for some...

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Sophie McKenzie

Sophie McKenzie was born in London, studied at university there, and worked as a journalist, an edit...

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David McKie

David McKie was born in 1935, and works as a journalist and author. He was deputy editor of The Guar...

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Ian McMillan

Poet Ian McMillan was born in 1956, in Darfield, South Yorkshire, England and was educated at North ...

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Cliff McNish

Cliff McNish was born in Sunderland in 1962 and worked in the computer industry before taking up wri...

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Paul McVeigh

Born in Belfast, Paul McVeigh began his award-winning writing career as a playwright before moving t...

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Candia McWilliam

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1955 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge....

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James Meek

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. He worked as a reporter for 20 years, a...

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Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such a...

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