Roffey, Monique
Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her most recent novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, (Peepal Tree Press) won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020, and was nominated for eight major awards. The film rights were sold to Dorothy Street Pictures and […]
Ryan, Frances
Dr. Frances Ryan is a columnist and reporter for The Guardian, and author of Crippled. Ryan was highly commended for the Georgina Henry Prize at the 2020 National Press Awards, as well as highly commended Specialist Journalist of the Year in 2019. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism, and […]
Runciman, David
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Confidence Trap (2013), How Democracy Ends (2018) and Where Power Stops (2019). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books, where he is also Contributing Editor. He is the founder and host […]
Rocco, Fiammetta
Fiammetta Rocco is the chief culture writer at The Economist. For more than 20 years she was The Economist‘s literary editor and since 2005 has been the administrator of the International Booker Prize.
Rundell, Katherine
Katherine Rundell is a £50 Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature, and a writer of children’s books. Her novels include Rooftoppers and The Explorer and have won, among others, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in America, the Andersen […]
Raine, Nina
Nina Raine is a playwright and director. Her debut play Rabbit won her the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Most Promising Playwright. She dramaturged and directed the verbatim play Unprotected at the Liverpool Everyman, for which she won both the TMA Best Director Award and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. After […]
Riley, Denise
Denise Riley lives in London. Her prose books include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History (1988), The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000), The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle; 2004), Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005), Time Lived, Without Its Flow (2012; revised edition 2019) and A Chorus of Ears: […]
Rausing, Sigrid
Sigrid Rausing is the Publisher of Granta Books, and the Editor of Granta magazine. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London, which was followed by a two-year Honorary Fellowship. Her academic monograph, History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia: the End of a Collective Farm, was published in 2004 (Oxford […]
Robinson, Roger
Roger Robinson is a writer who has performed worldwide, and an experienced workshop leader. His poetry collection, A Portable Paradise, won the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2020 RSL Ondaatje Prize, was shortlisted for the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize, and was chosen as a New Statesman book of the year. His work has been […]
Raisin, Ross
Ross Raisin is the author of three novels: A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008), each published to outstanding critical acclaim. In 2013 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. He has been the recipient of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and a Betty […]
Riley, Gwendoline
Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979. She is the author of five novels: Cold Water (2002), Sick Notes (2004), Joshua Spassky (2007), Opposed Positions (2012), and First Love (2017). Cold Water won a Betty Trask Award; Joshua Spassky won the 2008 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 John Llewellyn Rhys […]
Russell, Dick
Dick Russell, after graduating from Oxford, became articled to a firm of solicitors in the City, Titmuss Sainer & Webb, where he stayed for the next 35 years, practising company and commercial law and eventually becoming department head and managing partner. Since 2000 he has worked independently from his home in Berkshire as a legal […]