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Samuel Beckett
1906 – 1989 Samuel Beckett is widely recognised as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. He was awarded ...
Represented by
Joe Phillips
Lillian Beckwith
1916 - 2004
Author Lillian Comber wrote under the pseudonym Lillian Beckwith and is best known for her series of semi-autobiographical ...
Elizabeth Bowen
1899 -1973
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin and ...
Victor Canning
1911 - 1986
Author Victor Canning wrote his many novels and thrillers under his own name and the pseudonyms Julian Forest ...
Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill was Britain's Prime Minister throughout World War II and has been called "the greatest living Englishman ...
Beverley Cross
1931 - 1998 Born into a theatrical family, Beverley Cross started by writing plays for children in the 1950's but ...
Represented by
Ben Hall
Dorothy Dunnett
1923 - 2001
Dorothy Dunnett was a Scottish historical novelist and former portrait painter who exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy ...
Lord Dunsany
1878 - 1957
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work ...
Gerald Durrell
1925 - 1995
Gerald Durrell was one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. His books, such as the ...
Lawrence Durrell
1912 - 1990
Lawrence Durrell was born in India and spent most of his life outside Britain, living in France, Cyprus ...
Andrew Garve
A prolific writer of great variety, Andrew Garve wrote novels of mystery, detection, thrills, espionage, and romance. His popular characters ...
William Gerhardie
William Gerhardie was born in St Petersburgh in 1895. He was educated in Russia and later at Worcester College, Oxford ...
Stella Gibbons
1902 - 1989
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London. She went to the North London ...
Rumer Godden
1907 - 1998
Margaret Rumer Godden, was an English author of over 60 books, under the name of Rumer Godden. Born ...
James Hilton
1900 - 1954
James Hilton found literary success at an early age. His first novel, Catherine Herself, was published in 1920 ...
R C Hutchinson
1907 - 1975
British author Ray Coryton Hutchinson was born in North London and earned his degree from Oriel College, Oxford ...
C L R James
1901 -1989
Cyril Lionel Robert James was a journalist, socialist theorist and writer. He was a founder of the Pan-African ...
Margaret Kennedy
1896 - 1967
English novelist and playwright Margaret Kennedy is best known for her novel The Constant Nymph, published in 1924 ...
James Leasor
1923 - 2007
James Leasor was educated at The City of London School and Oriel College, Oxford. During World War II ...
Roger Longrigg
1929 - 2000
Award-winning author Roger Longrigg wrote under eight separate pseudonyms over the course of his career, generating 55 novels ...
Colin MacInnes
1914 - 1976
Colin MacInnes was a journalist, essayist and novelist whose late 1950s London trilogy Absolute Beginners, City of Spades ...
A A Milne
A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander) is best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh.
A.A. Milne was ...
Ursula Moray Williams
1911 - 2006
Ursula Moray Williams was the author and illustrator of over seventy children's books. Born in 1911, she ...
Joyce Porter
1924-1990
Joyce Porter was born in Marple, Cheshire, and educated at King's College, London. In 1949 she joined the ...
John Prebble
1915 - 2001
In his lifetime John Prebble was a journalist, novelist, documentarian and historian. He was born in England but ...
Simon Raven
1927 - 2001
Author Simon Raven was perhaps known as much for his controversial behaviour as for his writing. He grew ...
Mary Renault
1905 - 1983
Mary Renault was best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece with their vivid fictional portrayals ...
Somerville and Ross
Somerville and Ross refers to Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, the latter writing under the name of Martin Ross ...
Vita Sackville West
1892 - 1962
The Hon Lady Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The ...
R C Sherriff
1886 - 1975
Robert Cedric Sherriff was an English writer. He first wrote a play to help Kingston Rowing Club raise ...
C P Snow
1905 - 1980
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE was a scientist and novelist.Born in Leicester, he was educated at ...
Julian Symons
1912 - 1994
Julian Gustave Symons was a British writer, best known for crime fiction. He also wrote social and military ...
Wilfred Thesiger
1910 - 2003
Sir Wilfred Thesiger is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest travellers and travel writers of modern times ...
Antonia White
1899 - 1980
Antonia White was a British writer, born in London under the name Eirine Bottling to parents Cecil and ...
Daphne du Maurier
1907 - 1989An English novelist, biographer, and playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on the coast of Cornwall. Du ...
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