Welsh, Louise
Louise Welsh is a fiction writer and librettist. She has written nine novels, most recently Plague Times Trilogy, a series of books exploring a contemporary pandemic. She has written many short stories and is editor of Ghost: One Hundred Stories to Read with the Lights On. Louise has collaborated on four operas with the composer […]
Williams, Roy
Roy Williams began writing plays in 1990. His plays include Advice for the Young at Heart; an adaptation of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Days of Significance; Sucker Punch; Category B; Baby Girl; Absolute Beginners; Little Sweet Thing; Fallout; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads; Clubland; The Gift; Local Boy; Souls; Lift […]
Winterhart, Joff
Joff Winterhart is an illustrator, writer, occasional film-maker/ animator, drummer, songwriter, T-shirt maker, rock ’n’ roll fan and dog enthusiast. He has written and drawn two graphic novels, Days of the Bagnold Summer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2012, and Driving Short Distances (2017). He also made the animated film Violet […]
Wulf, Andrea
Andrea Wulf was born in India, brought up in Germany and lives in the UK. She is an award-winning author of five books. Her latest, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, won twelve awards, including the Costa Biography Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She is an International Fellow of […]
Williams (The Right Rev Lord Williams, Rowan
Wheeler, Sara
Wood, James
Wilson, Frances
Woodward, Gerard
Wroe, Ann
Wilmers, Mary-Kay
Winterson, Jeanette
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and moved to London […]