Latif Yahia was born in Baghdad in 1964. As a member of the affluent upper class he attended grammar school and university and carried out his military service, before his resemblance to Uday Hussein ...
David Yallop has established a reputation as an investigative writer without equal, a 'seeker of justice'. He is the author of To Encourage Others, which caused the British Government to twice reopen...
Born in Shanghai in 1959, Geling Yan served with the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution, starting aged 12 as a dancer in an entertainment troupe. She published her first novel in ...
Mo Yan was born in 1956 in Shandong, northeastern China. The author of over forty short stories and three novels, he is the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, in both China a...
Jane Yardley has a PhD from a London medical school and works on clinical projects around the globe. Her first novel, Painting Ruby Tuesday, was short-listed for the Guilford Arts First Novel Prize. R...
