Child, Lauren
Lauren Child is an award-winning artist and writer. She is the creator of many much-loved characters, including Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola and Ruby Redfort, along with several stand-alone picture books. She won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 2000 for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato. She was awarded a CBE for […]
Campbell, James
James Campbell was born and raised in Glasgow. He left school at 15 to become a printer’s apprentice, and later studied English and American Literature at Edinburgh University. Between 1978-82, he was editor of the New Edinburgh Review, a quarterly magazine of literature and cultural affairs. He moved to London in the early 1980s and […]
Cocker, Mark
Mark Cocker is a multi-award-winning author of creative non-fiction, a naturalist and a writing tutor. He writes or broadcasts on nature in a variety of national media. He reviews for the Spectator and other publications and has written a fortnighly country diary for The Guardian and Guardian Weekly without a break since 1988. He has now written well over 1,000 articles for […]
Crooks, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Crooks is a writer of novels, short stories and radio dramas. Fire Rush, her novel, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Jhalak Prize, the Authors Club Best First Novel Award and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and selected as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, published […]
Coady, Frances
Frances has spent over 40 years in publishing, first as an editor and publisher in London where she worked with many authors including with Lorrie Moore, Caryl Phillips, Edward Said, Deborah Levy, Salman Rushdie and John Pilger, and founded Vintage paperbacks. In 2000 she moved to New York where she relaunched and redefined Picador USA […]
Collinge, Geraldine
Geraldine is CEO of Compton Verney, Britain’s leading art space in a park. Prior to this she spent twelve years as a Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, changing the RSC’s relationship with artists, audiences and the community. She is particularly proud of leading the £4.5m Swan Wing capital project and a series of events […]
Conradi, Peter J
Cooper, William
William Cooper (Harry Summerfield Hoff), was a novelist who depicted the mysteriousness of ordinary people through a naturalistic eye. He was the author of Scenes from a Provincial Life, (1950) hailed by writers including Kingsley Amis, Braine and Anthony Burgess. Amongst Cooper’s other novels – and a play – it was to be followed by […]
Carr, Sir Raymond
Conquest, Robert
Conrad, P
