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 […]
Arnott, Jake
Jake Arnott’s bestselling debut novel The Long Firm was adapted as a BAFTA award-winning BBC TV drama series. His second, He Kills Coppers was made into a critically acclaimed ITV1 series, and along with his third book, truecrime, formed a trilogy that was awarded the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library. Subsequent works include […]
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 […]
Boix, Leo
Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet from Argentina based in London. His second collection Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025) was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and named Book of the Year by major UK newspapers. His debut Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021) was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. He edited […]
Campbell, James
James Campbell was born and raised in Glasgow. He left school at 15 to become a printer’s apprentice, and later studied English and American Literature at Edinburgh University. Between 1978-82, he was editor of the New Edinburgh Review, a quarterly magazine of literature and cultural affairs. He moved to London in the early 1980s and […]
Child, Lauren
Lauren Child is an award-winning artist and writer. She is the creator of many much-loved characters, including Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola and Ruby Redfort, along with several stand-alone picture books. She won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 2000 for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato. She was awarded a CBE for […]
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 […]
Herxheimer, Sophie
Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet. Her art has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery, The Museum of Liverpool and Tate Modern. Her collection Velkom to Inklandt (Short Books, 2017) was a Sunday Times book of the year. 60 Lovers to Make and Do (Henningham Family Press, 2019) was a TLS book of […]
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 […]