Authors 2011

Creators of Channel 4’s BAFTA-winning hit comedy Peep Show, Sam and Jesse's impressive string of comedy writing credits also includes Four Lions (with Chris Morris, winning them the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award
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Tom Uglow is a creative director for Google and YouTube in Europe He’ll be presenting 'What is a book?' at a time when publishing is trying to work out its place in a digital world.
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As a student Jay studied writing with Raymond Carver, emerging with his millionselling first novel Bright Lights, Big City - unique at the time due to its unusual second person narration.
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Anna-Marie Fitzgerald and Phoebe Frangoul started Pamflet in 2005 as a photocopied zine inspired by the legacy of 1990s riot grrrls, the DIY indie scene and their blue-stockinged heroines the Brontës and the Mitfords.
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Five Dials is a literary magazine and “heartbreaking work of staggering internet genius” (Interview), published as a PDF and downloaded by hundreds of thousands of readers around the world, from Alaska to Zenna.
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Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes was perhaps the most praised British book of last year, a prize-winning sensation and a bestseller, telling the story of 264 Japanese carvings of domestic scenes and animals, called netsuke, whose journey embodies that of the author's own family.
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Lynne Hatwell has been writing her much-loved literary blog, dovegreyreader scribbles for the last five years from her home in Devon. She’s a community nurse in her spare time and a bookaholic, sock-knitting, quilter and lifelong reader for the rest of the time.
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A popular monthly reading night in Cornwall, Telltales profiles new local writers alongside more established national and international talent. This year they present See, Change – poetry, prose, short stories and novel extracts
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Hanif Kureishi CBE is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. His screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Academy Award and his book The Buddha of Suburbia won the 1990 Whitbread Award for best novel.
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Award-winning novelist and broadcaster Marcel Theroux is the author of four successful novels...Marcel's Literary Pub Quiz is a Port Eliot institution, and he returns with yet more fun – and questions – this year.
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