Stevens, Nell
Nell Stevens is the author of four books: the novels The Original and Briefly, a Delicious Life, and the memoirs Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me. Her work has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and longlisted for the […]
Miranda Seymour
Savidge, Simon
Simon Savidge is a bibliophile, broadcaster and presenter. He has judged the Costa Book Awards, Portico Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize. He has appeared on the Booker Prize Live on BBC, recommended books on BBC 5 Live plus co-hosted Turn Up For The Books on BBC Sounds. He has co-presented three seasons of Sky Arts […]
Sansom, Ian
Ian Sansom is a novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of more than 20 books.
Seiffert, Rachel
Rachel Seiffert has published five novels, Once The Deed Is Done, A Boy in Winter, The Dark Room, Afterwards, and The Walk Home, and one collection of short stories, Field Study. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, and longlisted three times for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, most […]
Sumption, Jonathan
Jonathan Sumption (Lord Sumption) began his career as a history Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford) before leaving to practice commercial and constitutional law at the bar. In 2012, he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2108. He is the author of a number of books on […]
Stroud, Rick
Rick Stroud is a writer, producer and director. His books include: I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles, (2024) Lonely Courage (2017), Kidnap in Crete (2014), The Phantom Army of Alamein (2012) and The Book of the Moon (2009). With Victor Gregg he co-authored Rifleman, A Front Line Life (2011), King’s Cross Kid (2013), Soldier Spy (2015) and Dresden (2019) He is currently […]
Scott, Richard
Richard was born in London in 1981. His publications include Soho, which was a Gay’s the Word book of the year and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize, and the pamphlet Wound. A poetry collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in February 2025. Richard is a lecturer in […]
Souhami, Diana
Diana is the author of Gluck: Her Biography, Gertrude and Alice, Greta and Cecil, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), Wild Girls, the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New […]
Spawls, Alice
Alice is co-editor of the London Review of Books.