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 […]
McNish, Hollie
Hollie McNish is a bestselling poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Virgin, as well as her Sunday Times bestselling hybrid […]
Eshun, Ekow
Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and broadcaster. He is the author of books including The Strangers, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a cultural polymath’, he was the first Black editor of […]
Day, Elizabeth
Elizabeth is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her five novels include Scissors Paper Stone (which won a Betty Trask Award), The Party (a Richard & Judy Book Club pick) and the Sunday Times bestseller Magpie. She has also written four works of non-fiction, including How To Fail (which was born out of the chart-topping podcast […]
Hirsch, Afua
Afua is a bestselling writer and filmmaker, the author of four books including the award-winning Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging and Decolonising My Body, A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty. She co-presented Samuel L. Jackson’s major TV series Enslaved in 2020, and Africa Rising, an ongoing BBC series exploring the art and culture […]