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Alphabet: F

Frankopan, Peter

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, where he has been Senior Research Fellow of Worcester College since 2000. He works on the history of the Byzantine Empire, the Middle East, Russia, Central and South Asia and China. His books include The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, […]

Freud, Esther

Esther Freud trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was short listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second novel, Peerless Flats, she was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young British novelists. Her other books include The Sea […]

Fry, Stephen

Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Fry has written and presented several documentary series, contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, appears frequently on radio, reads for voice-overs and has written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My […]

Florence, Peter

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Peter Florence founded the Hay Festival with his parents 30 years ago, funding it with winnings from a poker game. Since then it has become one of the most important literary festivals in the world, fuelling and stimulating debate, nurturing people’s imaginations and love of books, supporting new writers of all nationalities, encouraging freedom of […]

Feigel, Lara

Lara Feigel is a Reader in Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London, where she directs the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture, runs (and founded) the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, and is the recipient of a European Research Council grant and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is the author of four […]

Follett, Ken

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Ken Follett has written 31 books. Over 160 million copies have sold in more than 80 countries and 33 languages. His first major success came with Eye of the Needle (1978), a World War II thriller. In 1989, his novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. It […]

Franklin, Andrew

Andrew Franklin is the founder and publisher of Profile Books which he launched on April Fool’s Day, 1996. The house’s list of bestsellers includes Alan Bennett, Mary Beard, Simon Garfield’s Just My Type and Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which sold more than three million copies worldwide. In 2007 Profile Books acquired Serpent’s Tail, […]