The General

Bill Bryson (born 8 December 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American-British writer of humorous travel books, popular science and books on the English language. He moved to England in 1977, worked as a journalist at The Times and The Independent, and broke through with Notes from a Small Island (1995) and A Walk in the Woods (1997). A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) won the Aventis Prize for science books. He was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011, is an honorary fellow...

Bill Buford is the author of The General. He writes about the worlds he immerses himself in, bringing readers along for the ride.

Blake Morrison is the author of the novel The General. He writes fiction.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS was born in 1949 in England and was a graduate of Balliol College at Oxford University. He was the father of three children and the author of more than twenty books and pamphlets, including collections of essays, criticism, and reportage. His book, god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and an international bestseller. His bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award f...

Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, born in Aracataca on Colombia's Caribbean coast. He earned his living as a journalist long before he earned it as a novelist, reporting from Paris in the 1950s and later working in Bogotá and New York for the agency Prensa Latina. He is the writer most closely identified with magical realism, in which the fantastic is narrated in the same matter-of-fact register as th...

Isabel Hilton is the author of the novel The General. She writes compelling fiction that explores complex characters and their journeys.

Jonathan Raban is the author of The General, a gripping novel that explores the complexities of war. His writing often delves into the human experience within challenging circumstances.

Leonard Freed is the author of the novel The General. He writes fiction that explores the complexities of human nature.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 18 November 1939, she has written more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, criticism and graphic work, published in more than forty-five countries. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which won the Governor General's Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and its sequel The Testaments (2019), a joint winner of the Booker Prize. She h...

Richard Ford is the author of The General, a gripping novel that explores the complexities of leadership. He's known for his straightforward prose and his ability to craft compelling narratives.

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.

Tahar Ben Jelloun (en arabe : الطاهر بن جلون) est un écrivain, poète et peintre franco-marocain né le 1er décembre 1944 à Fès (Maroc). Auteur de nouvelles, romans, poèmes et essais, il est lauréat du prix Goncourt pour son roman La Nuit sacrée. Bien que sa langue maternelle soit l'arabe, il écrit en français. En 2004, il a reçu le prix littéraire international IMPAC Dublin pour Cette aveuglante absence de lumière. En 2008, il a été décoré de la Croix de Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur....