Claire Bertschinger
Claire Bertschinger did not set out to become an author. "I always wanted to be a nurse" she says, and it was that profession that led her into a way of life that she could not... more...
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the UK's most famous and highly-acclaimed authors. An essayist and fiction writer, he was born in Bombay, but moved to England in his youth and now... more...
William Boyd
William Boyd CBE (he was awarded the honour 2005) is an acclaimed and multi award-winning author... more...
Robert Harris
Robert Harris began his career as a journalist and TV reporter, before going on to become one of Britain's most popular novelists... more...
Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss graduated from University College London and, after a brief spell as an assistant librarian, she became a journalist, writing variously for The Times, The... more...
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell is the best-selling British mystery and psychological crime writer. Following an early career as a journalist (she was reputedly fired from her position on a local... more...
Daisy Waugh
It's perhaps surprising that Daisy Waugh became an author. Having been an agony aunt, restaurant critic, aspiring tennis player, journalist and much more... more...
Julian Barnes
Novelist and short story writer Julian Barnes is often heralded as a figurehead for postmodernism in literature, and is regularly nominated for the Man Booker Prize, having been... more...
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Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan is perhaps, on the face of it, an unlikely author. After all, ex-soldiers are not unique. But while not unique as an ex-soldier, he is certainly unique in other ways...
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John Mortimer
John Mortimer (or, to give him his full title, Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE QC) was born in 1932. He attended Harrow and Oxford, and subsequently (and famously) worked as a barrister before hanging up his wig and becoming one of the country's most prolific writers and dramatists...
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Hunter Davies
Hunter Davies is the prolific and award-winning journalist and biographer, who is perhaps best known for his sporting books and various tomes on the Beatles...
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Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan in 1955. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and on graduating, he started a co-operative theatre company with a friend...
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Michael Dobbs
Michael Dobbs is an author with history. A former aide to Margaret Thatcher, he was at her side when she entered Downing Street as Prime Minister and was a key advisor to John Major when he was voted out...
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