contributors
Iain Bamforth is a medical doctor and author of Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook (2020). His new book, Zest: Essays in the Art of Living, will be published by Carcanet in July. J S Barnes has written five novels, including Dracula’s Child and The City of Dr Moreau. Owen Bennett-Jones is the presenter of The Future Of... series of podcasts on the New Books Network, where he interviews authors. His latest book is The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan (Yale University Press). Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic based in London. His collection of essays, What Ever Happened to Queer Happiness, will be published by Influx Press this year. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. James Campbell wrote the NB column in the TLS for many years. His new book, Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel, will be published in May. Richard Cockett is a senior editor at The Economist. His forthcoming book, with Yale University Press, is about the influence of Viennese thinking and culture on the 20th century. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Ethan Croft is a freelance writer. Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines’s books include a history of the Profumo Affair. He lives with goats and a calico cat named after Candia McWilliam. Claudia FitzHerbert was until recently books editor at The Oldie. Jay Gilbert teaches medieval English at the University of Oxford and is a freelance writer. Patrick Graney is a freelance writer. Lee Jackson is a historian of Victorian London. Freya Johnston’s most recent book is Jane Austen, Early and Late (Princeton University Press, 2021). Alice Jolly’s most recent novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound), was runner-up in the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
Jonathan Keates is working on a biography of the composer Gaetano Donizetti. Nikhil Krishnan is a fellow in philosophy at Robinson College, Cambridge. Paul Lay is the author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate (Head of Zeus, 2020). Rebecca Lee is an editorial manager at Penguin Random House. Her new book, How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book, has just been published by Profile. Lucy Lethbridge’s Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves will be published by Bloomsbury in July. Mathew Lyons is writing a book on the dissolution of the monasteries. Darrin M McMahon teaches history at Dartmouth. He is writing a history of ideas of equality for Basic Books. Jonathan Meades’s Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writings 1988–2020 has recently been published by Unbound. Suzanne Moore is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. Her writing on Substack, Letters from Suzanne, can be found at suzannemoore.substack.com. Joe Moshenska is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton. Joseph Owen is a research fellow at the University of Southampton. He is currently working on a project exploring civic pride in English towns. Francesca Peacock is deputy literary editor at The Critic, and a freelance writer. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. James Purdon teaches modern and contemporary literature at the University of St Andrews.
Tim Richardson’s recent books include Cambridge College Gardens (2019) and Sissinghurst (2020). Robert Service’s latest book is Kremlin Winter: Russia & the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin. Emma Smith’s new book, Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, is published by Allen Lane this month. Joan Smith’s Home Grown, which is now out in paperback, has been shortlisted for the Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize 2019–20. Michael Smith is a freelance writer and reviewer. Tim Smith-Laing is a writer and critic based in London. Frances Spalding’s The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars will be published by Thames & Hudson next month. Antony Spawforth is writing a book for Yale called What the Greeks Did for Us. Raymond Tallis’s recent books include Seeing Ourselves: Reclaiming Humanity from God and Science (2020), Freedom. An Impossible Reality (2021) and a volume of verse, Sunburst (2019). D J Taylor’s short-story collection Stewkey Blues was published last month. Michael Taylor is the author of The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (Bodley Head), which was shortlisted for the 2021 Orwell Prize. Stephen Taylor’s latest book is Sons of the Waves: The Common Man at Sea in the Heroic Age of Sail. John Vidal was environment editor of The Guardian and is writing a book on disease and nature. Richard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. Alexander Watson is a prize-winning historian who teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. His latest book is The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl. Jerry White’s Battle of London 1939–45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty under Fire was published by Bodley Head in November 2021.
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