Liardet, Tim
Twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, for The World Before Snow (Carcanet) and The Blood Choir (Seren), Tim Liardet has produced eleven collections of poetry to date. He has also been longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, received several Poetry Book Society Recommendations, a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, an Arts Council England Writer’s […]
Lewis, Roger
Roger Lewis was born in South Wales in 1960. Educated at Bassaleg Comprehensive, St Andrews University and Magdalen College, Oxford, Lewis won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize, Matthew Arnold Essay Prize and Chancellor’s English Essay Prize. Lewis was made a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford in 1984. He mved to Normandy in 1991 to complete […]
Lawson, Nigella
Nigella Lawson became Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times at the age of 26, followed by a successful career as a freelance journalist, and op ed columnist, for a range of newspapers. In 1998 she wrote her first cookbook, How To Eat, The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food, followed by How To Be […]
Linton, Lynette
Lynette Linton is a writer, and BAFTA nominated director for theatre, TV and film, was the Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre from 2019 – 2025. Her programming at the Bush has centered on ground-breaking debuts from UK and Irish writers. It has seen four consecutive Olivier Award wins for Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer, Igor Memic’s Old […]
Le Bas, Damian
Damian Le Bas’s first book The Stopping Places won the Somerset Maugham Award, an RSL Jerwood Award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Widely published as a journalist and poet, he has received a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and an honorary Master of Education from the University of Chichester. Damian read Theology at the […]
LeFanu, Sarah
Sarah LeFanu is author of biographies of Rose Macaulay and Samora Machel and of the life-writing memoirs Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer’s Journal and Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer. Her first book, In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction, won the MLA Emily Toth Award; her group biography, […]
Leigh Fermor, Patrick
Lonsdale, Roger
Lister, R.P.
Lefebure, Molly
Lewis, Jeremy
Longford (Elizabeth, Countess of Longford), Elizabeth
Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, was a British historian. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her biographies include those of 19th century luminaries such as Queen Victoria (1964), Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (2 volumes […]