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Alex Preston

Alex Preston was born in 1979 and studied English at Oxford University. His first novel, This Bleedi...

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Rebecca Prichard

Playwright Rebecca Prichard was born in 1971. She studied drama at Exeter University, graduating in ...

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Christopher Priest

Christopher Priest was born in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, in 1943. He began writing soon after lea...

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J. H. Prynne

J. H. Prynne was born in 1936 and is a leading late modernist poet. He was a key contributor to The ...

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Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh was born in 1950 and lives in Shetland. She lived for many years in Wales and taught C...

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Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger was born in British Columbia and educated on Vancouver Island. She moved to England w...

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Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich in 1946, and travelled all over the world during his childhood, s...

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Craig Raine

Poet and critic Craig Raine was born on 3 December 1944 in Bishop Auckland, England, and read Englis...

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Ross Raisin

Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire in 1979. He studied English at King's College, London and later fo...

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Ravinder Randhawa

Ravinder Randhawa was born in India and grew up in Warwickshire.  In 1984 she founded the Asian Wom...

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Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is the UK's number one best-selling crime writer. He lives in Edinburgh, and writes abou...

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Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael was born in 1931 in Chicago and moved to England as a boy. He was educated at Chart...

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Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill

Playwright Mark Ravenhill was educated at Bristol University where he studied English and Drama, and...

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Piers Paul Read

Novelist and playwright Piers Paul Read was born in Beaconsfield on 7 March 1941. He was educated at...

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Celia Rees

Celia Rees was born in 1949 and grew up in Solihull, England. She took a degree in History and Polit...

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Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve was born and brought up in Brighton, and has since lived in Devon and Dartmoor. He work...

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Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949, educated in England, and studied at Oxford Universit...

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Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid was a poet, a prose writer, a translator, and a traveller. Born in Galloway, he served...

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Oliver Reynolds
Oliver Reynolds

Oliver Reynolds was born in 1957 in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at the University of Hull, where...

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Dan Rhodes

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He studied Humanities at the University of Glamorgan and later returned...

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