contributors

Jad Adams is the author of Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson and Hideous Absinthe. He is currently working on a book called Decadent Women. Neil Armstrong is a journalist. Houman Barekat is a writer and critic based in London. Elspeth Barker is currently working on a memoir and a novel. Jonathan Barnes is the author of three novels, The Somnambulist, The Domino Men and Cannonbridge. Sally Bayley has recently been appointed a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Her literary memoir, Girl with Dove (William Collins), tells the story of a young girl escaping from an eccentric household. Simon Blackburn is Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was formerly Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy there. He is the author of numerous books, including The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Alex Blasdel is a freelance writer in California. Piers Brendon’s next book, Churchill’s Bestiary: Winston Churchill & the Animal Kingdom, will be published in November (Michael O’Mara). Catherine Brown is head of English and Senior Lecturer at New College of the Humanities, London. Mick Brown is the author of The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s Karmapa (Bloomsbury). Frances Cairncross was an economic journalist for most of her career. She was formerly Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and is now Chair of Court at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Rupert Christiansen is writing a study of 20th-century balletomania. Jeremy Clarke is off for a glass of boxed rosé with one ice cube. Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Gavin Esler is a novelist, journalist and broadcaster as well as Chancellor of the University of Kent.

Frederick Forsyth’s fourteenth thriller, The Fox, his first new novel for five years, has just been published (Bantam). Tom Fort is the author of The Book of Eels and, most recently, The Village News. David Goodhart works at Policy Exchange and is the author of Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics (Penguin). Edmund Gordon is the author of The Invention of Angela Carter, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Christopher Goscha is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Université du Québec à Montréal and author of the Penguin History of Modern Vietnam (2016). Matt Rowland Hill is currently writing a memoir about his experiences with religion, addiction and recovery. Henry Hitchings’s most recent book is The World in Thirty-eight Chapters, or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life. Jonathan Keates is at work on a biography of Civil War heroine Brilliana Harley. Davina Langdale is a freelance writer and author. Her debut novel, The Brittle Star, is published by Sceptre. Paul Lay is editor of History Today. David McClay is former curator of the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland and compiler of Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher. Robert McCrum is a writer and editor. He was literary editor of The Observer for more than ten years. Frank McLynn’s historical novel on Amundsen will be published shortly. Wendy Moore’s latest book, The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound, is out now in paperback. Harry Mount is editor of The Oldie and the author of Odyssey: Ancient Greece in Odysseus’s Footsteps. André Naffis-Sahely’s debut collection is The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin). Robin Oakley is a former political editor of The Times and of the BBC.

Lucy Popescu is the editor of A Country to Call Home (Unbound), focusing on the experiences of refugee children. Olivia Potts is a food writer and cook. Her first book, A Half Baked Idea, will be published by Fig Tree Books. Michael Prodger is an art historian and critic, and is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. Ian Rankin’s latest novel is In A House of Lies (Orion). Levi Roach is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Æthelred the Unready (Yale). Lucian Robinson is a freelance writer. Ian Sansom is the author of the County Guides series of novels. His December Stories volume I is published in November (No Alibis Press). Anne Sebba’s most recent book is Les Parisiennes: How Women Lived, Loved & Died in Paris in the 1940s. Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of the forthcoming Preventing Mental Illness: Past, Present & Future (Macmillan). Tim Stanley is a historian and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. Tom Stern is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London. Jack Stilgoe is Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London, where he leads the Driverless Futures? project. Angela Tilby is Canon Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and a writer and broadcaster. Duncan Tucker is a freelance journalist who has been based in Mexico since 2011, mainly covering human rights, the war on drugs and Mexican politics. John Tusa was born in Zlín in 1936. His memoir Making a Noise has just been published. A naturalised Briton, he has recently applied for a Czech passport. Adrian Weale is a writer and soldier. Philip Womack’s The Arrow of Apollo is funding on Unbound.

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