Dixon, Bill
Bill has been a solicitor specialising in commercial dispute resolution for some 40 years and has worked for a wide range of clients (including charities and not-for-profit companies). His work includes advice on risk and regulatory issues. For many years Bill headed up the London dispute resolution team of a major international law firm. He […]
Kavenna, Joanna
Joanna grew up in the Midlands and has worked in the US, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Sri Lanka and the Baltic States. Her novels include Inglorious, The Birth of Love, Come to the Edge, A Field Guide to Reality and Zed. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Tank, Esquire and Zoetrope, […]
Vishkai, Reza
Reza, a founding partner of Parala, brings over thirty years of finance sector expertise in various investment strategies, including derivatives, absolute return, and private equity. He began his career as a fixed income analyst at Salomon Brothers and later joined Rogers, Casey & Associates, a leading US investment consultancy. There, he advised major corporate and […]
McGuinness, Patrick
Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia, of Belgian and Newcastle Irish parents. His books include The Last Hundred Days (2011), about the fall of the Ceausescu régime in Romanian, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Writers’ Guild Award for Fiction and the Wales Book […]
Nasta, Susheila
Susheila Nasta MBE is a writer, critic and literary activist. In 1984 she founded Wasafiri, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, Britain’s first magazine to platform literary voices from Britain’s Black British, South Asian, and diasporic communities. For over three and a half decades, she published 100 issues featuring more than 5000 international writers, many […]
Johnson, Catherine
Catherine Johnson has written twenty books for for young readers as well as included in very many anthologies for children and adults including New Daughters of Africa. Sawbones won best historical fiction for 12+ and The Curious Tale of The Lady Caraboo, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. Her most recent book Freedom, is […]
Ellams, Inua
Inua Ellams, born in Nigeria, is a poet, playwright and performer, graphic artist and designer. He is a Complete Works poet alumnus and facilitates workshops in creative writing where he explores recurring themes in his work – identity, displacement and destiny – in accessible ways for participants of all ages and backgrounds. Inua has written […]
Mort, Helen
Helen Mort is a five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2007, and won the Manchester Young Poet Prize in 2008. In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. She was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate […]
Hay, Daisy
Daisy Hay is an award-winning biographer whose previous work includes Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (2010), Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (2015) and Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (2022). Her next work of narrative non-fiction, The Book of Falling Women, is due for publication with Chatto & Windus in 2026. […]
Scurr, Ruth
Ruth Scurr is a biographer, historian and literary critic. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (2006), won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009. Her second book, John Aubrey: My Own Life (2015) was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. Her third […]
Freely, Maureen
Harman, Claire
