Ian Edward Sansom (born 3 December 1966 in Essex , England) is the author of the Mobile Library Mystery Series. As of 2016 , he had written four books in a series that will comprise a projected forty-four novels.
9-918: Armitstead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Claire Armitstead , British journalist and author George Armitstead (1847) (1847–1912), Latvian mayor George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead (1824–1915), British businessman, philanthropist and politician John Armitstead (1868–1941), English clergyman Lizzie Armitstead (born 1988), English cyclist William Armitstead (1833–1907), English cricketer See also [ edit ] Armistead Armstead References [ edit ] ^ Hanks, P.; Coates, R.; McClure, P. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland . OUP Oxford. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9 . Retrieved 2 September 2018 . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
18-834: A trainee reporter in South Wales, before joining the Hampstead & Highgate Express as a theatre critic and sub-editor, moving from there to the Financial Times and then in 1992 to The Guardian , where she has been Arts Editor, Literary Editor (in which position she was described as "Respected blue-stocking and keen cyclist who keeps the wheels turning on ever more ambitious books pages"), Head of Books and, most recently, Associate Editor (Culture). Armitstead's essays have been published in New Performance (Macmillan, 1994) and Women: A Cultural Review (Oxford University Press, 1996). She
27-686: Is a frequent contributor to, and critic for, The Guardian and the London Review of Books . He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge , where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College . He is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and teaches in its writing programme. Ian Sansom is married and has three children. They reside in Bangor, County Down , Northern Ireland . This article about
36-411: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Claire Armitstead Claire Armitstead FRSL is a British journalist and author. She is Associate Editor (Culture) at The Guardian , where she has worked since 1992. She is also a cultural commentator on literature and the arts, and makes appearances on radio and television, as well as leading workshops and chairing literary events in
45-450: The surname Armitstead . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armitstead&oldid=1214899655 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
54-468: The 2020 PEN Pinter Prize and the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize . She has been a trustee of English PEN since 2013. Armitstead presents The Guardian ' s weekly books podcast. The podcast includes interviews with authors. The show is cohosted by Richard Lea and Sian Cain. The show discusses poetry, books, and other works of literature. In 2022, Armitstead was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature . Ian Sansom He
63-894: The UK and at international festivals. She has judged literary competitions including the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books , the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature , the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature , the PEN Pinter Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize . Armitstead was born in south London, England, and spent her early childhood in Northern Nigeria, attending primary school in Kaduna . She worked as
72-414: The UK", and about which The London Magazine reviewer wrote: "I cannot imagine anyone who has ever lived or worked in the capital not finding a point of connection or a memory resurfaced." Armitstead has been a judge for literary competitions as varied as the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books , the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature , the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature ,
81-454: Was editor of The Bedside Guardian 2016 , which Ian Sansom described as "a work I confidently predict will stand the test of time." Armitstead also edited Tales of Two Londons: Stories From a Fractured City ( O/R Books , 2018), an anthology that (as explained in the Introduction) "sets out to mirror London's diversity by ensuring that more than a third of the voices are of those not born in
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