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 […]
Akbar, Arifa
Arifa Akbar is chief theatre critic at The Guardian. A journalist of several decades, she is a former literary editor of The Independent where she also worked as a news reporter and arts correspondent. She has also worked as arts editor at Tortoise Media, and written for newspapers including the Financial Times, The Observer and […]
Biggs, Joanna
Born in London, Joanna Biggs trained at the London Review of Books and has edited for Harper’s Magazine in New York and The Yale Review in New Haven, Connecticut. Her criticism has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker, among other publications, and she was […]
Birch, Dinah
Dinah Birch is a literary academic and critic, with a particular interest in the Victorian period. She regularly contributes review articles to the London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement, while her work as a broadcaster includes a number of Sky Arts documentaries on literary subjects. She inaugurated and served as the Director of […]
Duncker, Patricia
Patricia Duncker is a novelist and an academic. Born and brought up in Jamaica, she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She taught English Literature at several different universities in Britain and Europe. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester. Patricia Duncker is the author of Hallucinating Foucault […]
Harrison, Melissa
Melissa Harrison is a novelist, nature writer and children’s author. Her third novel, All Among the Barley, was the UK winner of the EU Prize for Literature, while At Hawthorn Time was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year award and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her three non-fiction books about […]
Hickman, Katie
Katie Hickman is the author of ten books, which between them have sold over quarter of a million copies world-wide, and been translated into twenty languages. Her most recent work, Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West, won the 2023 US Willa Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Other works of history include […]
Kassabova, Kapka
Kapka Kassabova is a prizewinning writer of narrative non-fiction. Her recent Balkan quartet includes Anima (2024), Elixir (2023), To the Lake (2020) and Border (2017). Her awards include a British Academy prize, the Scottish Book of the Year, the Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year, the Highland Book Prize, the Prix Nicolas-Bouvier, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the Premio Mazzotti. Kassabova grew […]
Kelly, Stuart
Stuart Kelly grew up in and still lives in the Scottish Borders. He attended Balliol College, Oxford, and has been literary editor and chief critic for Scotland on Sunday since 2005, as well as writing for numerous other outlets. In addition to his published works, he has presented documentaries on radio and television, and is […]
Lawson, Nigella
Nigella Lawson became Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times at the age of 26, followed by a successful career as a freelance journalist, and op ed columnist, for a range of newspapers. In 1998 she wrote her first cookbook, How To Eat, The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food, followed by How To Be […]
Lewis, Roger
Roger Lewis was born in South Wales in 1960. Educated at Bassaleg Comprehensive, St Andrews University and Magdalen College, Oxford, Lewis won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize, Matthew Arnold Essay Prize and Chancellor’s English Essay Prize. Lewis was made a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford in 1984. He mved to Normandy in 1991 to complete […]
Mukherjee, Ankhi
Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at Oxford. She is the author of several monographs, including the award-winning Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor and What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon. Her innovative ideas on the role of literature and the interpretive humanities in […]