contributors
Nigel Andrew writes the eclectic blog Nigeness: A Hedonic Resource. Stephen Bates is a former senior correspondent at Th e Guardian. Mark Blacklock is a novelist and lecturer. He is editor of J G Ballard’s selected non-fi ction and the literar y and audio zine Off al . Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch journalist based in Atlanta. He has written for Big Th ink, JSTOR Daily and New Lines Magazine. Isabel Brooks is a freelance writer living in southeast London but spends most of her time in HMP Brixton, working for a charity. Frances Cairncross is a former journalist for Th e E c o n o m i s t , R e c t o r o f E x e t e r C o l l e g e , Oxford, and Chair of the Court of Heriot Wa t t U n i v e r s i t y. Charlie Campbell is a literary agent at Greyhound Literary. He is the author of two books (on scapegoats and amateur cricket captaincy) and runs the Authors Cricket Club. James Campbell ’s l a t e s t b o o k i s NB by JC: A Walk Th rough the Times Literary Supplement. Rupert Christiansen’s latest book is Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World (Faber). Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Mark Cornwall is currently writing a history of treason in the late Habsburg Empire. Stevie Davies is a Welsh novelist, literar y critic and historian. Zoe Dubno is a writer from New York. Her fi rst novel, Happiness and Love, will be published by Scribner (in the USA) and Doubleday (in the UK) next year. Sarah Dunant has written several Renaissance novels and is currently working on a book on Isabella d’Este. To m Fo r t ’s mo s t r e c e n t b o o k , Tivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the Hardware Shop, is out in paperback in May. M John Harrison ’s mo s t r e c e n t b o o k , Wish You Were Here: An Anti-Memoir, is out in paperback. Julia Jordan teaches English literature at University College London.
John Keay co-edited Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. An honorary fellow of the University of the Highlands and Islands, he lives in Argyll. Deborah Levy ’s l a t e s t n o v e l , August Blue , will be published in paperback by Hamish Hamilton in May. Ashani Lewis is author of the novel Winter Animals and a winner of a 2021 London Writers Award in the literary fi ction category. Suzannah Lipscomb is the author of Th e King is Dead: Th e Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII . S h e h o s t s t h e Not Just the Tudors podcast and is chair of judges for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Rosa Lyster lives in London. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey holds the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Th ought at the Cato Institute. Her latest book is Leave Me Alone and I ’ll Make Your Rich. Lucy Moore has just embarked on the research for her tenth book. Caroline Moorehead ’s Mussolini’s Daughter: Th e M o s t D a n g e r o u s W o m a n i n E u r o p e was published last year. Clare Mulley ’s l a t e s t b o o k i s Agent Zo, Th e Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Tancred Newbury is a freelance writer, photographer, fi lmmaker and composer. Malachi O’Doherty ’s l a t e s t b o o k , How To Fix Northern Ireland, will be released in paperback this month (Atlantic). Sophie Oliver teaches at the University of Liverpool. She is writing a women’s history of modern art and literature, explored through clothes. Susan Owens ’s b o o k s i n c l u d e Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape (2020) and Imagining England ’s Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession (2023).
Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Chris Power is the author of A Lonely Man and Mothers and a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book . H e i s w o r k i n g o n a n o v e l . Levi Roach is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Empires of the Normans. Alan Ryan was formerly Warden of New College, Oxford. Jon Savage’s new book, Th e Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) , i s p u b l i s h e d b y Fa b e r i n J u n e . Miranda Seymour ’s b o o k s i n c l u d e I Used to Live Here Once: Th e Haunted Life of Jean Rhys , Mary Shelley and In Byron’s Wake. Gillian Slovo is a novelist and playwright whose most recent play is Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors, which opened at the National Th eatre. It will transfer to St Ann’s Wa r e h o u s e i n N e w Yo r k t h i s m o n t h . Oliver Soden has written biographies of Michael Tippett, Noël Coward and Christopher Smart ’s cat Jeoff ry. He is currently writing a book about Saki. Lucy Th ynne is a freelance writer and editor. Adrian Tinniswood ’s l a t e s t b o o k , Th e Power and the Glory: Th e Country House Before the Great War , w i l l b e p u b l i s h e d b y J o n a t h a n Cape on 3 October. Richard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. Stephen Vines most recent book, Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World ’s Largest Dictatorship, will be published by Hurst in an updated edition this month. Joseph Williams is reviews editor of Critical Quarterly. Richard Williams is writing a biography of the jazz trumpeter Dupree Bolton. Ben Wilson ’s mo s t r e c e n t b o o k i s Urban Jungle: Wilding the City. James Womack lives in Cambridge. His next collection of poems, Why Are You Shouting? , will be published in July. Philip Womack ’s l a t e s t no v e l f o r t h e yo ung, Ghostlord , w a s p u b l i s h e d i n Am e r i c a i n Ma r c h .
