Alan Sillitoe
First published nearly fifty years ago, Alan Sillitoe is as prolific today as when he first started, his most recent novel A Man Of His Time arguably his greatest work to date. He remains one of England’s most important novelists and has done as much as anyone to persuade ordinary people both to write and to recognise the value of their lives. MORE >>
Gerald Kersh
Gerald Kersh’s life reads like a flamboyant, outrageous novel. He was a wrestler and soldier, roamed the tough Soho nightlife of the Thirties and Forties, slept rough, wasn’t afraid of a fight, and even managed a cinema. He was also an adventurous, brilliant writer. MORE >>
James Curtis
James Curtis wrote most of his fiction in the 1930s and revelled in the use of slang and the vernacular. A dedicated socialist, he added themes of equality and justice to the lowlife genre, his novels vibrant slices of London life that remains as alive today as when they were written.
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Martin Knight
Having debuted with Hoolifan, his work includes Ossie: King Of Stamford Bridge, Grass and On The Cobbles. He first novel was Common People, and he is working on a follow-up, Barry Desmond Is A Wanker, which he insists is non-autobiographical. MORE >>
John King
John King is the author of seven novels - The Football Factory, Headhunters, England Away, Human Punk, White Trash, The Prison House and Skinheads. He lives in London. MORE >>
Paul Willetts
Author of Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia, the acclaimed biography of Julian Maclaren-Ross, Paul also edited Bitten By The Tarantula, a collection of Maclaren-Ross’ writing, and is currently working on a new book, North Soho 999 MORE >>
DJ Taylor
DJ Taylor is the author of six novels, including English Settlement (1996) and Kept: A Victorian Mystery (2006). He is also known as a critic and reviewer, and his non-fiction includes After The War: The Novel and England Since 1945 (1993), Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread biography prize fo 2003, and Bright Young People: The Rise And Fall of A Generation 1918-1940 (2007). |