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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest English language poets, a status confirmed by the award of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the founder of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. At various times revolutionary patriot, upholder of an idealized Celtic tr
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon, the son of Irish writer Perceval Graves and Amalia Von Ranke. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
The Estate of Reginald Hill
Reginald Hill was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, brought up in Carlisle, and educated at Oxford. After twenty years in education as a teacher and lecturer, he turned to writing full time.
The Estate of Kate Saunders
Kate Saunders began her career as a professional actor but moved into journalism following the publication of her first novel in 1986. She has written two literary novels, THE PRODIGAL FATHER and STORM IN THE CITADEL, and has edited an anthology (REVENGE) for Virago.
The Estate of Brenda Maddox
Born and brought up in Massachusetts and with a degree in English literature from Harvard, Brenda Maddox was a long-time resident of the UK. For many years she was Home Affairs Editor of The Economist. She was also a biographer of international repute.
The Estate of Peter Dickinson
Born in Zambia in 1927, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels.
R Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was trained in apothecary and also studied medicine. He entered the Colonial Service, but was later invalided and forced to return to Britain. He turned his hand to writing and created the famous fictional detective, Dr John Evelyn Thorndyke, the first modern scient
