Contributors
Mark Thwaite
Mark Thwaite is the founder and managing editor of ReadySteadyBook, described by The Times as One of the best places on the web for clever, wise, sparky book-related discussions and reviews. He is also the managing editor of The Book Depository website, where he writes a book industry-focussed blog called Editors Corner.Marks articles… more …
Lee Kelleher
Lee helped Mark with the re-development of ReadySteadyBook.He much prefers to read graphic novels (comics) over text books, maybe thats because he cant read text after hacking away at the RSB code all day!Lee has ten years experience producing web-media solutions. As a lead developer at Amaze Ltd, he has… more …
Stephen Mitchelmore
Steve lives in Brighton. He reads European modernism, listens to US alt-country and worships Portsmouth Football Club. He also writes a blog called This Space.… more …
Alan Wall
Alan Wall was born in Bradford and studied English at Oxford. After that he had many jobs, including schoolteacher, motorcycle despatch rider and print manager. For the last seven years he has been a professional writer, publishing five novels (most recently, China) and one book of short stories with Secker… more …
Andrew Merrifield
Born in Liverpool, England in 1960, Andy Merrifield has a PhD from the University of Oxford. He has taught Geography in the United States and UK, and is author of Henri Lefebvre, Dialectical Urbanism and Metromarxism. He now lives and writes in the Haute-Loire, France. His Guy Debord is just… more …
Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba is a journalist, biographer and former foreign correspondent with Reuters. She has written five biographies, including one of Mother Teresa and one of Laura Ashley, short stories and two biographies for children. She is currently working on a life of Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchills American mother.… more …
Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevenson, born in England of American parents, grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. She has published twelve collections of poetry, a book of essays, Between the Iceberg and the Ship (1998), a recent critical study, Five Looks at Elizabeth… more …
Anthony Rudolf
Anthony Rudolf is a distinguished publisher and writer, and the man behind the Menard Press.… more …
Chris Knight
Chris Knight is a professor of anthropology at the University of East London, and the author of the highly acclaimed and controversial book, Blood Relations: Menstruation and The Origins of Culture, which outlines a new theory of human origins. Chris gives regular talks at the Radical Anthropology Group in London.… more …
Christian Stretton
Christian is five-foot-seven-and-a-half, but if he is asked, he will say five-foot-eight. He likes the kind of peripheral writers commonly appreciated among his demographic (abc1 thirty-something professional, graduate, left-leaning and with a keen interest in the arts): Brautigan, Bukowski, Vonnegut and Murukami are never very far from his satchel. He… more …
Dai Vaughan
Dai Vaughan has been described by the Review of Contemporary Fiction as one of the most skilful writers of our age. A renowned documentary film-editor, his previous novels include Moritur, Germs and The Cloud Chamber. His latest work of fiction is Non-Return (Seren).… more …
Gabriel Josipovici
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940, of Jewish parents both born in Egypt. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to England. He read English at Oxford, and from 1963 to 1998 was a member of the School of European Studies at the University… more …
Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino was born in Brooklyn in 1929 and entered Brooklyn College in 1950. It was at Brooklyn College that he made his first serious attempt at writing fiction. His college career, interrupted when he served in the US Army Medical Corps for two years, resumed at Brooklyn College in… more …
Ismo Santala
Ismo Santala was born in Ilmajoki, Finland in 1982. His criticism has appeared online in The Modern Word and Spike Magazine. While waiting for the siege in the room, he is working on a couple of screenplays.… more …
James Essinger
James Essinger is the author of Spellbound: The Improbable Story of English Spelling (Robson Books).… more …
Janelle Martin
Based in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), Janelle Martin reads extensively, in a wide variety of genres. Generally she can be found surrounded by books or wandering in the stacks of a favourite bookstore. She is thrilled to be able to share her passion for books as a reviewer for ReadySteadyBook, Armchair… more …
Kelle Link
Kelle designed this RSB site for her lovely friend Mark.She worked in a sculpture workshop in Tokyo, before moving on to Scotland and then New York. She moved to Manchester 2 years ago. Currently involved in mental health support groups and animal welfare groups and yoga teacher training and organic… more …
Ken Worpole
Ken Worpole left school at 16 to work in civil engineering, but re-trained as an English teacher in his early 20s. He has taught in secondary schools and in adult education, as well as being involved in setting up the radical bookshop/popular history project Centerprise in Hackney in the early… more …
Kevin Jackson
Kevin Jackson is a journalist and writer and author of Letters of Introduction, a wonderful book on Withnail amp; I, and the definitive biography of ground-breaking documentary film-maker Humphrey Jennings.… more …
Kit Maude
Kit Maude was the Sales and Marketing Coordinator at Peter Owen. He now does a similar job for Marion Boyars.… more …
Lee Rourke
Lee is the Managing Editor of Scarecrow.Scarecrow was founded in October 2004 as an online forum for book reviews, literary comment, short fiction and nation-wide art when, quite disillusioned with events in the publishing world, Lee Rourke decided to turn his back on the mainstream bookish blatherskites and focus primarily… more …
Leora Skolkin-Smith
Leora has received grants and fellowships from The New York State Council on the Arts, The Department of Cultural Affairs, Art-Without-Walls, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was awarded a Teaching Fellowship for graduate work at Sarah Lawrence College where she holds a BA… more …
Martin Empson
Martin Empson contributes to Socialist Worker. Martin will be debating with the nuclear industry about the feasibility of nuclear power as a solution to climate change at the forthcoming Folkestone Literary Festival on Saturday November 18th.… more …
Max Dunbar
Max Dunbar was born in London in 1981. He grew up in the North and is currently is the final year of an MA at Manchester Metropolitan University. He recently finished a full-length novel and has had stories and criticism published in various print and web journals.… more …
Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt latest book is The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets (Weidenfeld). He is the editorial director of Carcanet Press, the General Editor of PN Review, and the Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.… more …
Michael Syrotinski
Michael Syrotinski is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is also Associate Director of Universitys new Centre for Modern Thought. He has published widely on 20th century French literature, literary theory, and Francophone African literature and culture. He has recently edited an issue of… more …
Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney is a London-based freelance writer specialising in literature and the arts.She reviews books for the New Statesman and The Guardian and writes regularly for The Stage. She is the Theatre Editor for musicOMH.com.… more …
Paul Griffiths
Paul Griffiths is a celebrated critic and one of the most incisive writers writing in English today on modern classical music. His publications include A Concise History of Western Music, The Penguin Companion to Classical Music, The Substance of Things Heard: Writings About Music and his astonishing study of the… more …
Paul R Hyde
Irish author Paul Hyde is winner of several literary awards including the prestigious Hennessey Award (Dublin).… more …
Robert Chandler
The poet Robert Chandler is the translator of Pushkins highly vaunted miniature Dubrovsky and the brilliant melodrama Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Leskov (both Hesperus). Roberts translations of Sappho and Apollinaire are published by Everymans Poetry and his translations of Russian prose include Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate and several… more …
Robert Graham
Dr Robert Graham is the Creative Writing Subject Leader at the Department of Contemporary Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of the novel Holy Joe.… more …
Stuart Watkins
Stuart Watkins lives in London. He reads too much. He is RSBs Science Editor.… more …
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