Roden, Claudia
Claudia Roden is a food writer with a special interest in the history and cultural background of food. Born and raised in Egypt, she specialises in the cuisines of the Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean and in Jewish food. Her books are said to have influenced what we eat in Britain today and […]
Zamoyski, Adam
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Benjamin, Marina
Marina Benjamin is an essayist and writer of memoir. She has published six books, including Rocket Dreams and Last Days in Babylon, and most recently a trilogy of memoirs about midlife: The Middlepause (2016), Insomnia (2018) and A Little Give (2023). Her books have been translated into many languages and have been long- and short-listed for […]
Cocker, Mark
Mark Cocker is a multi-award-winning author of creative non-fiction, a naturalist and a writing tutor. He writes or broadcasts on nature in a variety of national media. He reviews for the Spectator and other publications and has written a fortnighly country diary for The Guardian and Guardian Weekly without a break since 1988. He has now written well over 1,000 articles for […]
Miller, Lucasta
Lucasta Miller is a critic and scholar, best known on both sides of the Atlantic for her influential book The Bronte Myth. Her articles and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Guardian, where she was a longform profile-writer. Formerly deputy literary editor of the Independent, and later editorial director of Notting Hill […]
Le Bas, Damian
Damian Le Bas’s first book The Stopping Places won the Somerset Maugham Award, an RSL Jerwood Award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Widely published as a journalist and poet, he has received a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and an honorary Master of Education from the University of Chichester. Damian read Theology at the […]
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 […]
Wright, Patrick
Patrick Wright is the author of The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (2020) and of seven books before that. A freelance writer, broadcaster and occasional curator for many years, he is now an emeritus professor in the Department of English at King’s College London and a fellow of the British Academy.
Allen-Paisant, Jason
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and award-winning poet, author of Self-Portrait as Othello, which won both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes in 2023, and of Thinking with Trees. His latest book, The Possibility of Tenderness, is a work of literary nonfiction. He holds a doctorate from Oxford and is Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at […]
LeFanu, Sarah
Sarah LeFanu is author of biographies of Rose Macaulay and Samora Machel and of the life-writing memoirs Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer’s Journal and Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer. Her first book, In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction, won the MLA Emily Toth Award; her group biography, […]
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 […]