Horne, Sir Alistair
Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth
K. Kumar, Shiv
Newall, Venetia
Rendell (Baroness Rendell of Babergh), Ruth
Screech, The Rev Professor M.A.
Shaffer, Sir Peter
Townsend, Sue
Bedford, Sybille
Sybille Bedford was a sternly disciplined novelist and travel writer. Many of her works are partly autobiographical. A Legacy, Bedford’s second book and first novel, was published in 1956 and was described by Francis King as ‘one of the great books of the 20th Century’. In her lifetime, she published three more novels as well as numerous […]
Faber, Sir Richard
Sir Richard Faber wrote well-crafted books of 19th-century English history, and a biography of the courtier Sir William Temple. He ended his diplomatic career as Ambassador to Algeria. Faber was appointed CMG in 1977, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, which he served as honorary treasurer from 1986 to 1991.
Prawer Jhabvala CBE, Ruth
Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne to a Polish father and German mother. The family relocated to Britain in 1939. She married Cyrus Jhabvala in 1951 and they moved to Delhi, after 1975 splitting their time between India and New York. Although perhaps best known for her screenwriting, her love of writing books superseded her […]