contributors
This month’s pulpit is written by Frances Wilson. She is writing a book about Thomas De Quincey.
Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of The Man Who Wasn’t There and The Edge of Physics.
Stephen Bates is the author of The Poisoner: The Life & Crimes of Victorian England’s Most Notorious Doctor (Duckworth, 2014).
Jonathan Beckman has just completed his eighth and final year as a judge of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Piers Brendon is writing a book about Winston Churchill and the animal kingdom.
Richard Cockett’s most recent book is Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma (Yale).
David Collard’s next book, About a Girl, will be published next year by CB editions.
Jude Cook’s Byron Easy is published by Heinemann.
Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot was published by Cape in 2015. His most recent collection of poems is Testament (Cape, 2014).
Andrew Crumey is a novelist and theoretical physicist. His most recent book is The Secret Knowledge (Dedalus).
Richard Davenport-Hines’s Edward VII will be published in Penguin’s English Monarchs series next year.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is the author of The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland (2015).
David Ekserdjian is Professor of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester. He is a trustee of the Public Catalogue Foundation.
Charles Elliott’s books include Why Every Man Needs a Tractor (Frances Lincoln).
Charles Fernyhough’s Pieces of Light: A New Science of Memory was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer.
Tom Fort’s most recent book is Channel Shore.
Henrietta Garnett has begun working on a life of Kitty Lushington.
Victoria Glendinning is completing a novel about nuns.
Oleg Gordievsky spent eleven years as a British secret agent inside the KGB. He was exposed in 1985 and placed under house arrest in Moscow, facing an imminent death sentence. However, with the assistance of the British intelligence services, he escaped to London.
Andrew Graham-Yooll lives in Buenos Aires. He is a journalist, writer and poet. His most recent book, with John Fernandes, is Exploring Utopia: The Guaraní, the Jesuits & their Dream Nation.
John Gray’s latest book is The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom (Penguin).
James Hamilton-Paterson has recently finished a book on aviation in the First World War.
Simon Heffer is writing a history of Britain from 1880 to 1914, to be published by Random House in 2017.
Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent.
Kevin Jackson’s English version of Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets has just been published (Worple Press).
Clive James’s recent books include a collection of poems, Sentenced to Life, and a book of essays, Latest Readings. Collected Poems will be published in the spring.
Alan Judd’s latest novel, Out of the Blue, is published as an ebook by Simon & Schuster.
Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College. His latest book is Political Demography (OUP).
Jonathan Keates’s most recent book is The Siege of Venice (Chatto & Windus).
John Keay is completing a book on Alexander Gardner, Asian travel’s greatest enigma.
James Kidd hosts the literary podcast thiswritinglife.co.uk.
Sam Kitchener is still writing a first novel of his own.
Jeremy Lewis’s biography of The Observer editor David Astor will be published in March (Cape).
Allan Massie’s most recent book, Cold Winter in Bordeaux, is published by Quartet.
Jessica Mann’s next book is The Stroke of Death.
Darrin M McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth and the author, most recently, of Divine Fury: A History of Genius.
Jonathan Meades’s An Encyclopaedia of Myself won the Spears Award for Memoir and has been shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize.
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist specialising in China and East Asia.
Leslie Mitchell is Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Lucy Moore is a writer and historian.
Wendy Moore is a freelance writer and author.
Jan Morris’s most recent book, the caprice Ciao, Carpaccio!, was published last year.
Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and biographer. He recently published Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: A Life of Gore Vidal (Little, Brown).
Philip Parker’s books includeThe Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World and The Empire Stops Here: A Journey around the Frontiers of the Roman World (Cape).
Lucy Popescu is editing A Country of Refuge, a collection of writings on asylum seekers.
Kevin Power’s novel Bad Day in Blackrock is published by Simon & Schuster.
Frederic Raphael’s recent books include Going Up (Robson) and Private Views (Peter Owen).
Jonathan Rée is a freelance historian and philosopher.
Oscar Rickett is a journalist, occasional actor and the author of two short plays.
Nicholas Roe is the author of John Keats: A New Life and chair of the Keats Foundation. He is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.
Christopher Ross studied iaidō and kenjutsu swordsmanship while researching his most recent book, Mishima’s Sword. Having recently undergone major abdominal surgery, he now feels he has developed a deeper understanding of harakiri.
Patrick Scrivenor has been a soldier, writer, journalist and gamekeeper. His novel about gamekeeping, Lady Ballochbrae’s Lover, awaits a publisher.
Anne Somerset’s books include Unnatural Murder, the story of a celebrated poisoning at the Jacobean court.
Tim Stanley is an associate fellow at the UCL Institute of the Americas and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph.
John Sutherland’s most recent books include Jumbo and How to Be Well Read.
Adrian Turpin is director of the Wigtown Festival.
Peter Washington was editor of Everyman’s Library from 1989 to 2000.
Alexander Waugh, amateur pianist and regular compère of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, suffers acutely from stage fright.
Will Wiles is an architecture and design journalist.
Rowan Williams is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and author of several books on theology and contemporary issues.
James Womack’s book of translations from Mayakovsky, Mayakovsky and Other Poems, will be out next year.
Philip Womack’s most recent novel is The King’s Shadow.
december 2015 / january 2016 | Literary Review 7
