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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer was an English writer of romantic and police historical novels. His literary career began in 1921, when he turned a story written for ...

Gail Honeyman

Gail Honeyman

Escritora escocesa que alcanzó reconocimiento internacional con su primera novela, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, una obra aclamada por la críti...

Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope

He was a British writer famous for his adventure novels, among which the most recognized are The prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, who are "min...

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

English novelist and essayist of encyclopedic and visionary prose. His most famous novel, "A Happy World," is a dystopia that explores the dangers of ...

Holly Jackson

Holly Jackson

Holly Jackson writes from a very young age, so much, that she finished her first, and bad, novel at age 15. He lives in London and, in addition to rea...

P.D. James

P.D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her se...

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr

He was a British author among other novels in the Bernie Gunther series. 1

Florence Knapp

Florence Knapp

Escritora británica residente en las afueras de Londres. Su debut novelístico, The Names, explora con sensibilidad y ambición cómo decisiones aparente...

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer, author of novels, stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and lit...

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

British novelist, Nobel winner, known for "The Golden Carnet.".

George Gordon Lord Byron

George Gordon Lord Byron

He was a poet of the British Romanticism movement, antecedent of the figure of the cursed poet. Because of his poetic talent, personality, physical ap...

Alfred Edward Woodley Mason

Alfred Edward Woodley Mason

He was a British writer and politician internationally recognized for his novel "The Four Pens"; originally published in London in 1902.

W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

British writer born in Paris, left medicine after the success of his first novel. Considered one of the most read narrators of the 20th century, he re...

Alan Moore

Alan Moore

Alan Moore is a British writer and writer of comics; in that last work he has highlighted for his works recognized for critical and popularly acclaime...

V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

Novelist and trinitense-British, Nobel winner, known for "A House for Mr. Biswas.".

Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell

North Irish writer recognized for her highly sensitive and prose-lyrical novels. His most famous work, Hamnet (2020), inspired by the death of Shakesp...

George Orwell

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blai, better known by the pseudonym George Orwell, was a British writer and journalist. In his work they highlight the essential "Rebellio...

Richard Osman

Richard Osman

Richard Thomas Osman is a comedian, producer, television presenter, English writer and the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One Pointless TV show.

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE was a British writer of fantasy and science fiction, creator of the hilarious Discomundo.

Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a British writer of police novel. His best known works are those starring Inspector John Rebus.

Lucinda Riley

Lucinda Riley

Novelista superventas especializada en ficción histórica y sagas familiares, conocida sobre todo por la serie The Seven Sisters (“Las siete hermanas”)...

J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling was born in July 1965 at the Yate General Hospital (England) and grew up in Chepstow (Gwent), where he studied at the Wyedean Comprehen...