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Jeremy Paxman

Broadcaster, journalist and writer Jeremy Paxman was born on 11 May 1950. He was educated at Malvern...

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David Peace

David Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Wakefield. He left Manchester Polytechnic i...

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Tim Pears
Tim Pears

Tim Pears was born in Tonbridge Wells, Kent, on 15 November 1956. He graduated from the National Fil...

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Luke Pearson

Luke Pearson is a freelance illustrator and comic book artist. Clients he has worked for include No...

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Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in creative writing at Royal Holloway which she...

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Mario Petrucci

Originally a Natural Sciences graduate with a PhD in optoelectronics, Mario Petrucci works as a free...

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Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips was born on 13 March 1958 on the Caribbean island of St Kitts. He grew up in Leeds, E...

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Mike Phillips

Writer Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He came to Britain as a child and grew up in Lo...

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Heather Phillipson

The artist and poet Heather Phillipson was born in London in 1978. She completed her undergraduate d...

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Woodrow Phoenix

Woodrow Phoenix is a writer, artist, illustrator and graphic designer based in London. He is known f...

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Katherine Pierpoint

Katherine Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. She studied languages at Exeter University, th...

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DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre was born in 1961 in Reynella, Australia. He was brought up in Mexico and the UK, and now ...

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Sadie Plant

Sadie Plant was born in 1964 in Birmingham. She read Philosophy at Manchester University, lectured a...

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Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff

Stephen Poliakoff is an acclaimed playwright, director and scriptwriter. Born in London in 1952, he ...

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Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard was born in 1978, and studied at Cambridge University. She was the recipient of an Eri...

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Jacob Polley

Born in 1975, poet and novelist Jacob Polley grew up in rural Bowness-on-Solway near Carlisle. Early...

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Professor Rob Pope

Rob Pope is Professor of English at the School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University. He has work...

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Max Porter

Max Porter is Editorial Director of Granta and Portobello Books. His debut novel Grief is the Thing ...

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Jem Poster

Poet and novelist Jem Poster was educated at Henbury Comprehensive, Bristol, and at Pembroke College...

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Tom Pow

Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh in 1950.   After studies at the University of St Andrews, he taught E...

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