Lessing, Doris
Lavery, Bryony
Lehane, Brendan
Lowe, Hannah
Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her latest book, The Kids, a Poetry Book Society ‘Choice’ for Autumn, won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one […]
Limburg, Joanne
Joanne Limburg has published non-fiction, poetry and fiction. Her books include the poetry collections Femenismo, Paraphernalia and The Autistic Alice, the novel A Want of Kindness, and the non-fiction books The Woman Who Thought Too Much, Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations and Letters to my Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism. She lives in Cambridge, where […]
Lovegrove, Sharmaine
Sharmaine Lovegrove is the Publisher of Dialogue Books, an inclusive imprint, part of Hachette UK. Sharmaine was the recipient of the Future Book Publishing Person of the Year 2018 and has worked in PR, bookselling, events management, and TV scouting. She was the literary editor of ELLE founded her own bookshop and creative agency when living in Berlin. […]
Light, Alison
Alison Light is a writer and critic. She is also an Honorary Professor at University College London and at Edinburgh University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College Oxford. Her books include Mrs Woolf and the Servants and Common People: The History of an English Family, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Her memoir A Radical Romance won the 2020 PEN Ackerley award. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books. A volume of her essays […]
Laing, Olivia
Olivia Laing is the author of To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), and The Lonely City (2016), which was translated into 15 languages. In 2018 she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her latest book is Crudo (2018), a real-time novel about the turbulent summer of 2017. It was shortlisted […]
Lalwani, Nikita
Nikita Lalwani‘s work has been translated into sixteen languages. Her first novel, Gifted – the story of a child prodigy of Indian origin growing up in Wales – was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction. Her second, The Village, […]
Leyshon, Nell
Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright. Her third novel, The Colour of Milk (2012), has been translated into many languages. In France it won the Prix de l’Union Interalliée and was nominated for the Prix Femina. In Spain it was the Libro del Ano. Nell’s second play, Comfort Me with Apples, won the Evening […]
Lock, Samuel
Levy, Paul