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contributors Nigel Andrew has recently completed a short book on butterflies. Daniya Baiguzhayeva is a writer and interviewer from London. Simon Baker is a freelance writer. John Banville’s new crime novel, April in Spain, will be published next month. Thomas Blaikie is manners and etiquette correspondent for The Lady. Piers Brendon is writing a personal memoir of Tom Sharpe. Wes Brown is currently writing an autofictional novel about professional wrestling. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. Frances Cairncross is a former journalist for The Economist, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chair of the Court of Heriot-Watt University. Rupert Christiansen’s book about the Ballets Russes phenomenon will be published by Faber next year. Norma Clarke is writing a sequel to her family memoir, Not Speaking. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Vybarr Cregan-Reid is the author of Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us. He teaches at the University of Kent. Ian Critchley is a freelance writer and reviewer. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review. Adam Douglas is a rare-books specialist at Peter Harrington. Lindsay Duguid is a freelance writer. Claudia FitzHerbert is books editor of The Oldie. Patrick Graney is a freelance writer based in London. Nick Holdstock is the author of Chasing the Chinese Dream. His second novel, Happy Fifth, will be out next year. Andrew Hussey was formerly dean of and professor at the University of London in Paris. His latest book is Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou. Alice Jolly’s most recent novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound), was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Joanna Kavenna’s most recent novel is Zed. Kate Kirkpatrick is a fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and the author of Becoming Beauvoir (Bloomsbury, 2019). John Maier is a freelance writer living in London. Simon J V Malloch teaches classics and ancient history at the University of Nottingham. Zareer Masani is an author and historian. He has written books on the Raj, Macaulay and Indira Gandhi. Allan Massie is the author of The Bordeaux Quartet. Darrin M McMahon teaches history at Dartmouth. He is currently writing a book on the history of ideas of equality. Robin Oakley was political editor of The Times and of the BBC. He writes The Turf column for The Spectator. Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and critic living in London. Freya Marshall Payne is a writer and researcher currently exploring women’s experiences of homelessness for her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Gavin Plumley is a cultural historian. His first book, A Home for All Seasons, will be published next year. 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. Richard V Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Dream Hoarders. Adam Sisman’s books include biographies of John le Carré and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Peyton Skipwith is an art historian and author. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She publishes widely on detective fiction, postmodernist literature, Poe and Nabokov, and is also a poet and a sculptor. Alan Taylor is currently editing Alan Rickman’s diaries and writing an Edinburgh memoir. Colin Tudge is co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food Culture. His latest book, The Great Re-Think, is now available online and in bookshops. Sarah Watling is the author of Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters, Four Lives in Seven Fragments, which was recently published in paperback. Michael White is a former Washington, DC, correspondent and political editor of The Guardian. Tom Whyman is a writer and philosopher. He is the author of Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood & the Future in an Age of Crisis & Disaster (Repeater Books, 2021). Simon Yarrow is a senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of Birmingham, and author of Saints: A Very Short Introduction (OUP). Adam Zamoyski is a freelance historian. His most recent book is Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins). Literary Review | september 2021 4
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Nigel Andrew has recently completed a short book on butterflies. Daniya Baiguzhayeva is a writer and interviewer from London. Simon Baker is a freelance writer. John Banville’s new crime novel, April in Spain, will be published next month. Thomas Blaikie is manners and etiquette correspondent for The Lady. Piers Brendon is writing a personal memoir of Tom Sharpe. Wes Brown is currently writing an autofictional novel about professional wrestling. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. Frances Cairncross is a former journalist for The Economist, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chair of the Court of Heriot-Watt University. Rupert Christiansen’s book about the Ballets Russes phenomenon will be published by Faber next year. Norma Clarke is writing a sequel to her family memoir, Not Speaking. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Vybarr Cregan-Reid is the author of Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us. He teaches at the University of Kent. Ian Critchley is a freelance writer and reviewer. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review. Adam Douglas is a rare-books specialist at Peter Harrington. Lindsay Duguid is a freelance writer. Claudia FitzHerbert is books editor of The Oldie. Patrick Graney is a freelance writer based in London. Nick Holdstock is the author of Chasing the Chinese Dream. His second novel, Happy Fifth, will be out next year.

Andrew Hussey was formerly dean of and professor at the University of London in Paris. His latest book is Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou. Alice Jolly’s most recent novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound), was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Joanna Kavenna’s most recent novel is Zed. Kate Kirkpatrick is a fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and the author of Becoming Beauvoir (Bloomsbury, 2019). John Maier is a freelance writer living in London. Simon J V Malloch teaches classics and ancient history at the University of Nottingham. Zareer Masani is an author and historian. He has written books on the Raj, Macaulay and Indira Gandhi. Allan Massie is the author of The Bordeaux Quartet. Darrin M McMahon teaches history at Dartmouth. He is currently writing a book on the history of ideas of equality. Robin Oakley was political editor of The Times and of the BBC. He writes The Turf column for The Spectator. Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and critic living in London. Freya Marshall Payne is a writer and researcher currently exploring women’s experiences of homelessness for her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Gavin Plumley is a cultural historian. His first book, A Home for All Seasons, will be published next year. 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.

Richard V Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Dream Hoarders.

Adam Sisman’s books include biographies of John le Carré and Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Peyton Skipwith is an art historian and author.

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She publishes widely on detective fiction, postmodernist literature, Poe and Nabokov, and is also a poet and a sculptor.

Alan Taylor is currently editing Alan Rickman’s diaries and writing an Edinburgh memoir.

Colin Tudge is co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food Culture. His latest book, The Great Re-Think, is now available online and in bookshops.

Sarah Watling is the author of Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters, Four Lives in Seven Fragments, which was recently published in paperback.

Michael White is a former Washington, DC, correspondent and political editor of The Guardian.

Tom Whyman is a writer and philosopher. He is the author of Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood & the Future in an Age of Crisis & Disaster (Repeater Books, 2021).

Simon Yarrow is a senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of Birmingham, and author of Saints: A Very Short Introduction (OUP).

Adam Zamoyski is a freelance historian. His most recent book is Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins).

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