Join us to comment on new releases, make recommendations, receive our monthly newsletter and be eligible for exclusive offers
The doyen of travel writing at his elegiac and luminous best.
Brady Udall is the author of the highly-praised Letting Loose the Hounds, The Lonely Polygamist and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint.
Jenny Uglow is the author of biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth (both shortlisted for the Whitbread) and The Lunar Men, winner of the PEN International Prize for history and the James ...
Fred Uhlman, born in Stuttgart in 1901, claimed that his South-West German homeland of Württemberg, made him a 'romantic' for life and formed the essence of his sensibilities as a poet. Understandable ...
David Underdown is Professor of History at Yale University. He was born at Wells, Somerset, and educated at Wells Blue Coat School and Exeter College, Oxford. He is the author of Revel, Riot and Rebellion ...
Chika Unigwe was born in Nigeria and now lives in Belgium with her husband and four children. She is an award-winning short story writer and the author of two novels, written in Dutch. On Black Sisters' ...
John D. Unruh was born in 1937 on a farm in South Dakota. He was the descendant of Mennonite pioneers who had settled on nearby Turkey Creek in the spring of 1874. In 1957, after completing two years at ...