Causley, Charles
Charles Causley was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall. In 1958, Causley was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1986. When he was 83 […]
Curtis, Anthony
Cook, Steve
After reading French and German literature at Oxford, Steve Cook joined Cassell as Reference Publisher. In the early 1990s, he persuaded the company to launch the UK’s first trade list of lesbian & gay studies titles. In 1998, he joined Lord Michael Young’s School for Social Entrepreneurs and shortly after was recruited by the Royal […]
Coel, Michaela
Michaela Coel’s phenomenally successful and ground-breaking HBO/BBC dark comedy-drama, I May Destroy You, which she created, wrote, co-directed and starred in premiered in June 2020. The series won a host of prestigious awards including: two Emmys, five BAFTAS, three Royal Television Society awards, a Peabody Award, two Independent Spirit Awards and a GLAAD Award, amongst […]
Cave, Nick
Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave’s body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including […]
Chingonyi, Kayo
Kayo Chingonyi is a Zambian/British poet, writer, editor, and broadcaster. His first collection, Kumukanda, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. Kayo is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Durham University, a writer and presenter for Decode on Spotify, and poetry editor at Bloomsbury. His most recent collection A Blood Condition was […]
Crawford, Robert
Robert Crawford is author of eight collections of poetry in English, most recent of which is The Scottish Ambassador (Cape, 2018); and of several collections in Scots. His biographies include The Bard: Robert Burns (Cape, 2009), Young Eliot (Cape, 2015), and an experimental life of Violette Szabo (Molecular Press, 2021). His critical books include Devolving […]
Clay, John
John Clay’s first biography was of Culbertson, The Man who Made Contract Bridge (Weidenfeld, 1985). This was followed by the life of the novelist John Masters, A Regimented Life (Hodder and Stoughton, 1987). After training as a Jungian Psychotherapist, he wrote Men at Midlife (Sedgwick and Jackson, 1989) and then a biography of R D […]
Cowell, Cressida
Cressida Cowell MBE is the author-illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once book series. Cressida is the current Waterstones Children’s Laureate, a trustee of World Book Day, a patron of Read for Good, an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Woodland Trust, and she is on the Council of the Society […]
Coleridge, Gill
Gill Coleridge co-founded Rogers Coleridge & White, literary agency, in 1988 where she represented many famous and prize-winning authors. She was Chair from 2014-2019 and continues as a part-time consultant. Prior to RCW she was a director of Anthony Sheil Associates for fifteen years. She began her publishing career at Purnell Partworks, followed by Sidgwick & Jackson, the Bedford Square Bookbang, and Chatto & Windus. She has been President of the […]
Cook, Jon
Jon Cook is a critic and academic. An Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of East Anglia, his publications include Hazlitt in Love and Poetry in Theory. He is a member of the Folio Academy and, for a number of years, chaired the international Writing Worlds seminar at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich.
Codron, Michael
Concentrating largely on new British writers and plays, Sir Michael Codron has produced over one hundred and fifty West End plays. He has been the principal producer and usually the original and only producer of the work of a number of writers. These include Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bennett, Michael Frayn, Simon Gray, Christopher Hampton, Frank […]