John McWhorter

John McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history at Columbia University. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and host of Slate’s Lexicon Valley podcast. McWhorter is the author of twenty books, including The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, and Our Magnificent Bastard […]

Joanna Griffin

Joanna Griffin is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist who has been undertaking doctoral research on this topic.  She has worked in a number of different clinical settings, including the NHS, and provides independent supervision and consultancy work. She established the website www.affinityhub.uk to signpost to emotional support for parent carers.

Raffael Jovine

Raffael Jovine was born and raised in Munich, and educated in Britain and the US. He trained in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, did his PhD in Marine Sciences, then researched the photosynthetic strategies that enable algae to outcompete other organisms at MIT. He is the founder and chief scientist for a company that uses […]

Renée Danziger

Renée Danziger is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL. Born in the U.S, she has lived in the UK most of her life. She was educated at Manchester University, London School of Economics, and Oxford University where she earned a […]

Molly Martin

Molly Martin is an artist, illustrator and professional textile repairer, specialising in delicate fabric restoration and traditional Japanese Sashiko repair.  Molly also works for the slow fashion company Toast and has collaborated with them on several workshop ‘repair’ tours.  https://mollymartin.uk/ / @molly.a.martin

Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a writer, journalist and lawyer. Her news reporting and literary work has appeared in ABC News, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others. She works as a legal academic in association with Essex Court Chambers in London and The University of New South Wales in Sydney.  In 2019 her […]

Paul Behrens

PAUL BEHRENS is an Associate Professor in Energy and Environmental Change at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He completed his PhD in physics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His work on climate change has appeared in leading scientific journals and his work on science communication has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, […]

Ukamaka Olisakwe

UKAMAKA OLISAKWE is a Nigerian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. In 2014 she was chosen as one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most promising writers under the age of 40 by Africa39. She was born in Kano, Nigeria, and in 2016, was a resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. In 2019 she was […]

Ivana Bartoletti

Ivana Bartoletti is Technical Director at Deloitte, a public speaker, author and media commentator.  In her day job, Ivana helps businesses with their privacy by design programmes especially in relation to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology. Ivana was awarded ‘Woman of the Year’ 2019 in the Cyber Security Awards 2019 in recognition of her […]

Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He’s the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the podcast American Innovations.

Clarissa Ward

Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has won five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honours from the Radio and Television […]

Matt Jardine

Matt Jardine is a martial artist, entrepreneur, public speaker, podcaster, teacher, and the founder of Jardine Karate School. His previous books include Mo and Lucy – Choices, and The Hardest Path, inspired by his 88 Temple pilgrimage of Japan. Matt has practised meditation and other Eastern arts for over 25 years.  He has recently moved […]

Tim Ecott

Tim Ecott is a former BBC World Service staff correspondent.  He has worked widely in Africa and the Indian Ocean.  He writes documentaries for radio and screen and non fiction, drawing heavily on his fondness for the natural world.  Ecott’s writing appears widely in UK newspapers. His first book was the international bestseller Neutral Buoyancy: […]

Irene Sabatini

IRENE SABATINI spent her childhood in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. After attending the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, she moved to Colombia, where she worked as a teacher. She has a master’s degree in child development from the Institute of Education at University College London. Irene is the author of two previous novels; her debut novel, […]

Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster and the author of numerous books about politics including The Liberal Defence of Murder (Verso, 2008), Against Austerity (Pluto, 2014) and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso 2016). His writing appears in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Guardian, Prospect and Jacobin.

Francesca Cartier Brickell

Francesca Cartier Brickell is a graduate in English literature from Oxford University, and a direct descendant of the Cartier family. She is a sought-after international lecturer on Cartier’s illustrious history, and has given talks for major auction houses, museums, and societies.  THE CARTIERS is the result of years of the author’s independent research into her […]

Carol Anshaw is the author of Right after the Weather, Carry the One, Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Her short fiction has been published in various US periodicals and her stories have been included in Best […]

Diane Keaton

DIANE KEATON has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club, and Something’s Gotta Give. Her many awards include the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling […]

Armand D’Angour

Armand D’Angour is currently an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. Trained as a pianist and cellist as well as a classicist, he has recently contributed to the rediscovery of the sounds of ancient Greek music. His book The Greeks and the New was a Spectator Book of the Year […]

Parker Bilal

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of award-winning literary novelist Jamal Mahjoub.  Born in London, he spent his early childhood in Liverpool before the family moved to Khartoum, Sudan. Parker’s Makana Investigations series has drawn critical acclaim, with The Ghost Runner (Bloomsbury, 2014) being longlisted for the 2015 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year […]

Ahmad Danny Ramadan

Ahmad Danny Ramadan is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and an LGBTQ-refugee activist. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, was published to acclaim in Canada in 2017. It won Canada’s 2018 Independent Publisher Gold Medal for LGBT Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Lambda Award for Gay Fiction, among numerous other accolades.

Joe Norman

Joe Norman has been a tutor of children aged 10-13 for nineteen years.  He specialises in training children for entrance and scholarships to top schools such as Eton, Winchester and Westminster. He studied at Winchester College and Oxford University.  His book The Super Tutor offers a first-class schooling in seven chapters.

Tia Powell

Dr. Tia Powell is Director of the Montefiore Einstein Centre for Bioethics and of the Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics program. She is Professor of Epidemiology, Division of Bioethics, and Psychiatry.  She has bioethics expertise in public policy, dementia, consultation, end of life care, decision-making capacity, bioethics education and the ethics of public health […]

Graham Hancock

As East Africa correspondent of The Economist in the early eighties Graham Hancock began to write a series of highly acclaimed books on economics, politics and foreign aid. His life took a whole new turn when he became fascinated by rumours that the Ark of the Covenant is a real artefact, hidden somewhere in northern […]

Laird Hamilton

LAIRD HAMILTON is an American athlete, surfer, author, inventor, stuntman, model, producer, TV host, fitness and nutrition expert, husband, father, and adrenaline junkie. He is one of today’s best-known big-wave surfers.  In addition to riding many of the biggest waves on the planet, Hamilton is known as the world-renowned innovator and guiding genius of crossover […]

Nuala Ellwood

Nuala Ellwood was chosen as one of the Observer‘s ‘New Faces of Fiction 2017’ for her first thriller, the bestselling My Sister’s Bones. Her second novel, Day of the Accident was published by Penguin in 2019.  Nuala teaches Creative Writing at York St John University, and lives in York.

Josie Silver

Josie has always had a love of romance writing and wanted to be a writer. She used to tell her husband that she’d write a book if she ever owned a laptop. It was a standing joke between them until he bought her one for Christmas back in 2008 – the gauntlet was officially thrown […]

Liz Nugent

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in Irish film, theatre and television. In 2014 her first novel, Unravelling Oliver, was a Number One bestseller and won the Crime Fiction Prize in the 2014 Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, Lying in Wait, went straight to Number One in the Irish bestseller charts, remained there for nearly two […]

Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller is a working mum of three and founder of NatureDoc. She runs busy clinics across the UK specialising in childhood nutrition. She has been practising as a naturopath and herbalist for 20 years and is also qualified in Functional Medicine. She lives with her family in Wiltshire. Find out more here: www.naturedoc.clinic

Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist whose work appears regularly in The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. She has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and the Congo, and has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Genius Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.

Michael David Lukas

Michael David Lukas is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a student […]

Kate Moore

Kate Moore is a Sunday Times bestselling writer with more than a decade’s experience in writing across varying genres, including memoir and biography and history. She was the director of the critically acclaimed play about The Radium Girls called ‘These Shining Lives’.

Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik is best known as Amy Farrah Fowler on America’s top comedy, The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she has received four Emmy nominations and a Critics’ Choice Award.  She also starred in the early-1990s sitcom Blossom.  Mayim earned a BS from UCLA in Neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies, and went […]

Frances Welch

Frances Welch is the author of Rasputin (2014), The Russian Court at Sea (2011), Romanov Fantasy (2008) and Sydney Gibbes: Tutor to the Children of the Last Tsar (2004), all published by Short Books. Frances Welch has written for the Sunday Telegraph, Granta, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass

Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass are the critically acclaimed filmmakers behind The Puffy Chair, Baghead, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Cyrus, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. For HBO, they wrote and directed Togetherness, produced the animated series Animals, and created the anthology series Room 104. Their producer credits also include the feature films Safety Not Guaranteed, The […]

Edward Bullmore

Prof Edward Bullmore MB PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSciis Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. He is a world expert in neuroscience and mental health, who is leading the development of new anti-inflammatory drugs for depression in partnership with industry.

Dr Clare Bailey, wife of Michael Mosley, is a GP who has pioneered the Blood Sugar Diet approach at her own surgery in Kent, and is the author of the hugely successful 8-week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book. She has four children and a kitchen full of fermented food.

Jane Ashley

Jane Ashley is a graphic designer who lives with her husband and daughter in London.

Natasha Fraser-Cassavoni

Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni is the author of Sam Spiegel, Tino Zervudachi, Dior Glamour, Monsieur Dior, Loulou de la Falaise, Biyan, and Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent and Vogue on Calvin Klein. She was the European editor for Harper’s Bazaar from 1999 to 2004, after serving as a staff member and journalist at Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine, and assisted Karl Lagerfeld at the Chanel studio. She lives in Paris with her […]

Mihaela Noroc

Over three years ago, Mihaela Noroc left her life in Romania and set off around the world with her camera. She has been travelling ever since and her photo blog now attracts over one million followers. The Atlas of Beauty is her first book.   Find out more about Mihaela’s work here: www.theatlasofbeauty.com / Twitter: @mihaela_noroc […]

Joshua Green

Joshua Green is a Senior National Correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, focusing on political coverage for the magazine and Bloomberg News. Previously, Green was senior editor of The Atlantic, a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe, and an editor at The Washington Monthly. He has also written for The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and […]

Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop is a Northern Irish professional motorcycle racer, specializing in road racing. Aged only twenty-seven, he has a total of thirteen Isle of Man TT wins to his name, putting him fifth on the overall race winners leader board, which is topped by his uncle, Joey Dunlop.

Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini are renowned practitioners of the science of persuasion. Their books have sold over 4 million copies, are taught in Business Schools around the world and have attracted the interest of world leaders, policy makers and global businesses. They are the authors of the Royal Society Prize listed bestseller […]

Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones is the author of The Next Time You See Me (debut novel 2013) and the story collection Girl Trouble.  She was a recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Award for Fiction and of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.  Jones lives in Greensboro, North Carolina and teaches creative writing at […]

Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton is one of the world’s best-known biographers and a leading authority on modern celebrity as well as royalty.  Diana: Her True Story has sold millions of copies worldwide, and has been translated into more than thirty-five languages.  Since Diana: Her True Story, Morton has gone on to write Number 1 Sunday Times and […]

Brit Bennett

Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. At the age of just 25, Brit Bennett already has a […]

Timothy Williams

CWA award-winning author TIMOTHY WILLIAMS has written six crime novels set in Italy featuring Commissario Piero Trotti, as well as two novels set in the French Caribbean, Another Sun and The Honest Folk of Guadelope. 

Michael Farris Smith

MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH is a native Mississippian who has spent time living abroad in France and Switzerland. He is the recipient of the 2014 Mississippi Author Award and has been awarded the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, and the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature. His short […]

CONOR WOODMAN has been a producer, reporter and presenter in factual television for many years. His series include Scam City, Around the World in 80 Trades, Watchdog and, most recently, Hunting Nazi Treasure. He has written two previously books, The Adventure Capitalist and Unfair Trade, which was long listed for the Orwell prize. True Appaloosa, his first feature length documentary film, premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival in 2015 and aired on BBC4 as The […]

The Archers

The Archers was first broadcast on BBC radio in 1951, and it continues to this day, with a new episode broadcast daily on BBC Radio 4 (excepting Saturdays) plus an omnibus edition on Sundays. The story centres around the inhabitants of the village of Ambridge, including the Archers, the Grundys, the Aldridges and the Carters. […]

Bram Stoker

Abraham “Bram” Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, the acknowledged ‘Queen of Detective Fiction’ (Observer), was born in Torquay in 1890. During the first world war she worked as a hospital dispenser and it was here that she gleaned the working knowledge of various poisons that was to prove so useful in her detective stories. The brilliance of Christie’s plots, and […]

Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain, five other short story collections, sixteen novels, including the Christopher Marlowe Cobb historical crime fiction series published by No Exit Press and a collection of wry vignettes, Severance/Intercourse. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction, has received […]

Cathy Teesdale

CATHY TEESDALE is a long-time photographer, writer and editor who lives in West London. She has been working on the Humans of London (aka Humans of Greater London or HOGL) project since December 2013. Regular HOGL Hubs extend the project offline in the form of relaxed social gatherings with food and drink, live music and […]

Jason McGroaty

Jason McGroarty is an award-winning photographer and cat enthusiast from Donegal, Ireland. Jason’s cat, Hummus, was diagnosed with feline leukaemia when she was a kitten, so isn’t allowed outside to play with other cats. Luckily she is a total fashion diva, so Jason keeps her amused with their project ‘Cat Couture’.

Julian Woodford

JULIAN WOODFORD was born in Burton-upon-Trent in 1963. Since graduating from the University of York he has combined a City career with a passion for London’s history. The Boss of Bethnal Green is his first book. Follow him @HistoryLondon.

Robert Beasley

Robert Beasley is an award-winning sports writer who has enjoyed 30 years on Fleet Street and spent the last 22 years on the country’s two biggest-selling newspapers. He was Chief Sports Correspondent of The Sun and before that was Chief Football Writer and Chief Sports Reporter on the News of the World. He now runs his own media […]

Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists’ Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. A California native, she lives in Berkeley with her husband and […]

Robert Cialdini

Professor Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence, earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance and negotiation, and making him the most cited living social psychologist in these areas. The Harvard Business Review calls him the ‘leading social scientist in the field of […]

Mara Wilson

Mara Wilson is a writer, playwright, actor and storyteller, well -known as the little girl from Mrs Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street, and Matilda.  She regularly appears at live storytelling and comedy shows, including her own, What Are You Afraid Of?  Her writing can be found on Jezebel, The Toast, McSweeney’s, The Daily Beast and Cracked.com, along with her own blog MaraWilsonWritesStuff.com.  Mara lives in New York City.

John Claridge

John Claridge began taking photographs at the age of eight and by the tender age of nineteen he had opened his own studio near London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. His work is held in museums and private collections worldwide, including The Arts Council of Great Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery and The Museum of […]

Emily Stott

Emily Stott is a writer and stylist, and has worked in the retail and fashion industry since she left school. She lives in Battersea, London, with her son. This is her first book.

Jane Turley

Jane Turley has written for the BBC and the literary magazine The View From Here.  For the past eight years she has been delighting readers and fans through her blog The Witty Ways of a Wayward Wife.  Find out more about Jane here.

Dana Shultz

Dana Shultz is the recipe developer and co-author of the food blog Minimalist Baker, which she founded with her husband, John, in 2012.  Dana creates the recipes, the photographs and the blog content, while John designs, codes and develops.  The couple live in Portland, Oregan.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk left college in 1997 and took over his family wine business, which he grew from a $3M to a $60M business in five years.  CEO and co-founder of VaynerMedia, which helps Fortune 500 companies tell their stories via social and digital media, Vaynerchuk is a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist who invested […]

Katie Fforde

A regular top five Sunday Times bestseller, Katie Fforde has sold 2.5 million books in the UK alone. Katie lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart.  Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life.  She’s […]

Henrietta Clancy

Henrietta Clancy is a food writer and food stylist based in South London. She writes for several magazines and newspapers, including the Guardian, and styles food for cookbooks. Originally training to cook at Ballymalloe cookery school in Ireland, she spent several years working on various food and drink titles before going freelance. She keeps bees. […]

Jeanine Donofrio is the voice behind Love & Lemons – a cooking and lifestyle blog inspired by vibrant seasonal food. She creates the recipes, her husband Jack Mathews taste-tests and together they photograph their food from their sunny kitchen in Austin, Texas. Donofrio’s goal is to inspire her readers to get creative with vegetables, whether […]

Alex Blackmore

Alex Blackmore runs The Glass Pineapple, an online fashion retail start-up championing emerging designers and independent labels to be launched in Autumn 2015. As well as writing novels, Alex also manages her own copywriting business. Alex spent five years in the pressure cooker environment of City law, in both Paris and London, before breaking free […]

Gerad Kite is an Acupuncture Master (AcM) with more than 25 years of clinical experience and a recognised leader in the field of infertility. In 1993 he started the first NHS acupuncture service at Kings College Hospital. At the Kite Clinic, he leads a large team of practitioners performing over 10,000 treatments a year.

Anthony Loyd

ANTHONY LOYD is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has reported from numerous conflict zones including the Balkans, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Chechnya. A former infantry officer, he left the British army after the First Gulf War and went to live in Bosnia, where he started reporting for The Times. My War Gone By, I […]

R. Douglas Fields PhD

R. Douglas Fields, PHD, is senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He became Head of the Neurocytology and Physiology unit, NICHD in 1994 and Chief of the Nervous System development and plasticity section, NICHD in 2001. He is Editor in Chief of Neuron Glia biology and a member of the […]

Michael Hayden is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group, a security consultancy co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Hayden also serves as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University School of Public Policy.

Sharon Blackie

Sharon Blackie is a writer, storyteller and psychologist. She has an international following through her Re-enchantingtheearth.com blog community and the nature writing magazine EarthLines. Her first novel was The Long Delirious Blue described by the Independent on Sunday as ‘hugely potent’. She lives in Donegal, Ireland. www.sharonblackie.net

Angela Kiss

ANGELA KISS is a writer and accountant. Born in Hungary, she has been living and working in London for ten years.

Bill Beverly

Bill Beverly was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He studied literature and writing at Oberlin College, including time in London studying theatre and the Industrial Revolution. He then studied fiction and pursued a Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Florida. His research on criminal fugitives and the stories surrounding them became […]

F.H. Batacan

F.H. Batacan was born in Manila and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BA in communications and an MA in art history. After ten years of working in the Philippine intelligence community, she turned to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles is her first novel.

P.J. Kavanagh

P.J. Kavanagh is a poet and writer. He has served as a Redcoat at Butlins, in the Army in Korea, in Indonesia for the British Council, as an actor on Father Ted and a columnist for The Spectator. He now lives in Gloucestershire. In 2014 his New Selected Poems were published by Carcanet.

Gary Bell QC

Gary Bell is a natural jury advocate. Whilst at University he was the English Universities debating champion and won many national and international debating competitions. As a result of this success he was selected for the prestigious English Speaking Union debating tour of the USA and spent three months visiting 35 universities in 30 different […]

Irenosen Okojie

IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a writer, curator and Arts Project Manager. She has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Southbank Centre, and the Caine Prize. Her writing has been featured in the Guardian and the Observer. Her short stories have been published internationally, including the Kwani 07 and Phatitude. She was a selected writer by […]

Serhii Plokhy

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada, and the United States. He has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. For three successive years (2002-2005) his books won […]

Jeremy Massey

Jeremy Massey is a third-generation undertaker who worked with his father for many years at the family firm in Dublin. A screenwriter by training, Massey has lived in London and Los Angeles. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Australia.

REID MITENBULER lives in Brooklyn, NY, and has written about whiskey and drinking culture for The Atlantic, Slate, Saveur, and Whiskey Advocate, among other publications.  He blogs about American whiskey on his website www.reidmitenbuler.com This is his first book. @ReidMitenbuler

Iain King

Iain King has worked in warzones, politics, teaching and journalism. In Afghanistan he served alongside both of Britain’s most senior casualties, and in more frontline bases than any other civilian. He is one of the youngest people ever to be made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Once a student at Oxford University and […]

Amanda Brooks

Amanda Brooks is the former fashion director of Barney’s New York and creative director of Tuleh and author of I Love Your Style: How to Define and Refine Your Personal Style. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Vogue.  Amanda moved from New York and lives with her […]

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas was born in South London in 1963 and has worked as a comedian for nearly 30 years. His activist, campaigning brand of comedy has long been a thorn in the side of many politicians and corporations. He recently collaborated with the Royal Opera House on a Bravo Figaro!, a show about his father. […]

Rachel Elliott

Rachel Elliott is a writer and psychotherapist. She has worked in arts and technology journalism and her writing has featured in a variety of publications, from digital arts magazines to the French Literary Review. She has also been shortlisted for a number of short story competitions in the UK and the US. Rachel was born […]

Johannes Anyuru

JOHANNES ANYURU was born in 1979 in Borås, Sweden, the son of a Swedish mother and a Ugandan father. He is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His second novel, A STORM BLEW IN FROM PARADISE, has enjoyed immense success and was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Prize and the Aftonbladet Literature Prize 2012.

Gary Barker (US, 1961) is a writer, educational psychologist and human rights activist. He is the founder of Promundo, an organisation that works in Latin America and Africa to engage men in ending violence against women. Two of his novels, Luisa’s Last Words and Mary of Kivu, were published in the Netherlands to critical acclaim. […]

Renate Dorrestein

Renate Dorrestein is a bestselling author in the Netherlands and around the world. Her novels have been made into films and translated into fifteen languages. She has twice been nominated for the IMPAC Literary Award and was selected as one of Barnes & Noble’s ‘Great New Writers’. Dorrestein’s previous novels A Heart of Stone and […]

Lior Zoref

Lior Zoref is a crowd wisdom researcher, an international speaker, and a consultant. He worked for fourteen years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of marketing for consumer and online services.

Bert Vangenthorp

Bert Wagendorp is a journalist and successful author. He has covered many cycling events for Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, and co-founded a Dutch cycling magazine. He was the London-based cycling correspondent for de Volkstrant for four years. His novel Ventoux has sold over 140,000 copies in the Netherlands.

Zia Chaudhry

Zia Chaudhry’s family originally came from Pakistan, and he was brought up in Lancashire and Liverpool. After graduating from Manchester University, he was called to the bar in 1991. In the last decade he has become increasingly involved in inter-faith dialogue, and has addressed a variety of audiences, including the judiciary, school pupils, criminal offenders […]

Angela Parsons

Angela Marsons was born and raised in the Black Country and still lives there, along with her long-term partner, a bouncy Labrador and a potty-mouthed African Grey parrot. Although she has been writing since her early teens, Silent Scream is her first novel.

Sharon Maas

An epic, mesmerizing tale of tragic loss, the strength of words left unspoken, and the redeeming power of love…

Debbie Rix

Debbie Rix began her career at the BBC where she was a presenter on BBC’s Breakfast Time before moving to present a variety of factual programmes. She is now a Communications Consultant, specialising in the charitable sector. Secrets of the Tower is inspired by Debbie’s own story: her husband, a television producer, had a stroke […]

Emma Craigie

Emma Craigie is a writer and teacher. She is the author of Chocolate Cake with Hitler and Who Was… King Henry VIII. She lives in Somerset with her husband and four children.

Mick Herron

MICK HERRON was born in Newcastle and has a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford. He’s the author of two books in the Slough House series, Slow Horses and the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger Award-wnning Dead Lions, as well as a mystery series set in Oxford. He lives in Oxford and works in London.

James Attlee

James Attlee lives in Oxford. He is the author of Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight; Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey; and (with Lisa Le Feuvre) Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between.

David Axelrod

DAVID AXELROD spent eight years as a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Tribune. As a political consultant, Axelrod has managed strategy for more than 150 local, state, and national campaigns. Axelrod served as a senior strategist to President Obama’s 2008 election campaign and his 2012 re-election, in addition to serving in the White House […]

Derek Niemann

Scots-born author Derek Niemann is the editor of the RSPB children’s magazines

Alice Stevenson

ALICE STEVENSON lives in South East London and is an artist, surface pattern designer and educator. She has created designs for Crabtree and Evelyn, Kelloggs, University of Sussex, Euros ESG, Volvo, Vodafone, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Vogue, Hugo Boss, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and St Jude’s. www.alicestevenson.com

Bruce Fogle

Bruce Fogle is the UK’s bestselling vet, having written numerous books on cats and dogs. Born and raised in Toronto, he settled in London as a young man. He spent a year working at London Zoo, then as a veterinarian in Knightsbridge. He has had his own practice since 1973. He is married to the […]

Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg author of Isle of Youth short stories won the O. Henry Award

Martin Scurr & Jane Haynes

Martin Scurr FRCP, FRCGP was educated at Stonyhurst College and Westminster Medical School. He commenced private practice in the centre of London, was the opening Medical Director of St John’s Hospice at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, subsequently appointed as Physician to Westminster Cathedral taking responsibility for the care of many senior […]

John Sutherland

John Sutherland was formerly Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He currently teaches at the California Institute of Technology and is the author of twenty-odd books, mainly on books of a more important kind than his own.

Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria. His short stories have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review and New Madrid. He was an Autumn 2012 OMI Fellow at Ledig House, New York. He has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus and Turkey, and currently resides in the United States, where he has completed an MFA in […]

Mark Owen

MARK OWEN is a former member of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team […]

Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields is an award-winning actress and a Princeton graduate with honours in French Literature. She starred in iconic films such as Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon, and Endless Love. She is a renowned model and starred in the long-running TV show Suddenly Susan and the critically acclaimed Lipstick Jungle. She has appeared on Broadway multiple […]

Jo Bloom

Jo Bloom has worked in the media in Prague and New York, and was a book reviewer for Time Out for several years. She currently works as a freelancer in arts marketing and press roles, as well as in the e-learning sector. Jo lives in Brighton with her husband and young son.

Betsy Tobin

Betsy Tobin is a novelist and playwright, born and raised in the American Midwest; she now lives in the UK.  She is author of four previous novels: Bone House, short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize and winner of a Herodotus Prize in America, The Bounce, Ice Land, and Crimson China, a BBC Radio 4 Book-At-Bedtime and […]

Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke teaches in the University of Michigan MFA program and the Residential College. She has published seven collections of poetry and seven novels. Two of her novels have been made into films, including The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) starring Uma Thurman, and her novel, The Raising, was shortlisted for the 2011 Prix Femina […]

At the turn of the 20th century, an amateur photographer named Horace Warner captured over two hundred startling images of children living in a rundown slum area of East London. He named these children the ‘Spitalfields Nippers’. As a designer managing the family wallpaper-printing business, Horace Warner had the income and resources to explore photography […]

Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah grew up in Ghana but was educated at Mount

Julie Bindel is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and feminist activist. She is the

Graham Bound

Journalist and writer Graham Bound is the author of Invasion 1982 and Fortress

Kate Bendix

Kate Bendix has worked for many years in television documentaries

Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes is the multi-­‐award-­‐winning chief sportswriter for the Times.

Rose Boyt

Rose Boyt was born in London. As a child she lived on a three-masted sailing ship

Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is a contributor and Italian publisher of the ‘Save the Story’ series, Pushkin Children’s

Jaume Cabré

Jaume Cabré is one of the most internationally celebrated contemporary

Dominique Eddé

Dominique Eddé was born in Beirut in 1953 and now lives in France and Turkey. She is the author of ‘Kamal Jann’.

Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1979 and immigrated to the United

Esther Gerritsen

Esther Gerritsen is a successful Dutch playwright and writer who made her

Anne-Gine Goemans

Gliding Flight is the second novel of Dutch writer, Anne-Gine Goemans. The

Arianna Huffington

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON is the president and editor-in-chief of THE HUFFINGTON

Rupert Isaacson

Rupert Isaacson is British but lives with his family in Texas, USA. HE is an ex-professional

Jang Jin-sung

Jang Jin-sung is a former court poet for North Korean leader, Kim

Linda Boström Knausgård

Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish writer who has been compared to

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts, leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly

Francesca Martinez

Multi-award-winning Francesca Martinez is the first and only woman to win

Bob Mazzer

While working as projectionist in a porn cinema in the eighties, Bob Mazzer

David Stuart MacLean

David Stuart MacLean is a PEN/American Award-winning writer

Melania G Mazzucco

MELANIA G. MAZZUCCO has written award-winning novels and works for the cinema,

Michael Mosley

Dr. Michael Mosley is a British journalist, physician, producer and TV presenter. He is the author of

Diriye Osman was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1983 and grew up in Nairobi,

Matt Parker

Matt Parker, known as the Stand-up Mathematician, can be seen talking about

Tore Renberg

Tore Renberg is a multi-award-winning author, literary critic and Norwegian TV personality.

Jonathan Rendall

Jonathan Rendall was a prolific sports writer for the major British newspapers

Peter Sis

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1949, PETER SÍS is an internationally renowned author and illustrator

Mimi Spencer

Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. She is a feature-writer and columnist for titles including the

Rebecca Stonehill

Rebecca Stonehill is from London but currently lives in Nairobi with her husband

Murielle Szac

MURIELLE SZAC was born in Lyons. She has worked as a political journalist,

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater

A B Yehoshua

A. B. YEHOSHUA is one of Israel’s pre-eminent writers. His novels include