Guest authors
We are proud to have the support of an impressive roll call of guest authors including Jim Crace, Catherine O’Flynn, Clare Morrall, Helen Cross, Gaynor Arnold, Mike Gayle, Alan Beard and Raphael Selbourne – to name just a few. They will give one-off guest speaker visits within the programme. Short presentations by editors within the Tindal Street Press publishing team will also be a regular feature of each course.
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Alan Beard’s stories have been broadcast on Radio 4 and appeared in numerous magazines including London Magazine, Panurge, Critical Quarterly and Malahat Review. His debut collection Taking Doreen out of the Sky was published by Picador in 1999 and the follow-up will be published by Tindal...
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Catherine O’Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents’ sweet shop as the youngest in a large family. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman. Her first novel draws on her experience of working in record stores – and of growing...
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2003 – is Tindal Street’s bestselling title and has been translated into a dozen languages worldwide. Absorbing and sure-footed, beautifully written and perceptive, Astonishing Splashes of Colour reflects the author’s...
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Gaynor Arnold’s first novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, based on the marriage of Charles Dickens, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009. Her collection of short stories Lying Together was published to critical acclaim in February 2011.
Gaynor was...
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Helen Cross was born and brought up in the village of Newbald in East Yorkshire. Her first novel, My Summer of Love won a Betty Trask Award and became a BAFTA award-winning feature film. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, and her plays and stories have been...
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Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of nine previous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001...
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Previously an Agony Uncle, Mike Gayle is a freelance journalist who has contributed to a variety of magazines including FHM, Sunday Times Style and Cosmopolitan. He is the author of eight previous bestselling novels. He has been selected for the 2011 Quick Read programme and been a judge for...
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Raphael Selbourne was born and grew up in Oxford. After studying Politics at Sussex University, he moved to Italy where he worked mostly as a teacher and translator. More recently he lived in the West Midlands, the setting for his novel Beauty, and now teaches creative writing in a prison in...
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