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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Pete Haynes
Pete Haynes is the author of two non-fiction works, God’s Lonely Men and An Unlikely Fooligan, and Malayan Swing is his debut novel.
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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair is a prolific author who has made the streets of London his
own. Soaked in the memories and mythologies of the city, his fiction, poetry and travelogues are major part of a defiant, ongoing tradition. 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).
Paul Willetts
Author of North Soho 999 and Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia, the acclaimed biography of Julian Maclaren-Ross, Paul has also edited several collections of Maclaren-Ross’s memoirs, stories and letters. MORE >>
Robert Westerby
From the mean streets of his early London fiction to the boulevards of
Los Angeles, Hackney-born Robert Westerby was a man whose writing skills mean he can today be remembered as both a cult novelist and a respected Hollywood screenwriter. MORE >>
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