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Ifor Thomas

Ifor Thomas was born in Haverfordwest in 1949. He received the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in...

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Alice Thompson

Alice Thompson grew up in Edinburgh and read English at Oxford University. She played keyboard with ...

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Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson was born in Halifax and grew up in Leamington Spa and Worcester. She has lived in Irel...

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Matt Thorne credit Daniel Blumberg website
Matt Thorne

Matt Thorne was born in 1974, and grew up in Bristol. He studied at Cambridge University and is the ...

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Thorpe Adam Credit Daniel Thorpe website
Adam Thorpe

Poet, playwright and novelist Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in India, Cameroon a...

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Colin Thubron

Award-winning travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Educated ...

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Anthony Thwaite

Poet Anthony Thwaite was born in Chester, England, in 1930. He spent his early childhood in Yorkshir...

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Colm Tóibín

Irish novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in Ireland in 1955 an...

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Claire Tomalin

Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. After graduating from Newnham College, Cambrid...

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Barbara Trapido c Tony Kaplan website
Barbara Trapido

Barbara Trapido was born in 1941 in Capetown, South Africa. She studied at the University of Natal, ...

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Treglown Jeremy Credit Thomas Hayward website
Jeremy Treglown

Jeremy Treglown is Professor of English at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Socie...

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Rose Tremain

Novelist Rose Tremain was born in 1943 in London. She was educated at the Sorbonne and is a graduate...

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Rachel Trezise

Rachel Trezise was born in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, in 1978. At 16, she produced and edited ...

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Joanna Trollope

Novelist Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943, and was educated at Reigate County School for ...

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Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss is a writer and broadcaster. She began work as a literary journalist, editing the Books ...

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Colin Tudge

Biologist and writer Colin Tudge was born on 22 April 1943 in London, and was educated at Peterhouse...

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Ann Turnbull

Ann Turnbull was born in Hertford in 1943, and brought up in south-east London. She worked as a secr...

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Jenny Uglow

Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and Dorset and studied English at Oxford. Until 2012, she was Editori...

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Ardashir Vakil

Ardashir Vakil was born in Bombay and now lives in London. He was educated at The Doon School in Deh...

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Ed Vere

Ed Vere writes and illustrates picture books which are published all over the world. The Getaway, wo...

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