Author type: Non-fiction

Ricky Nathvani is an environmental data scientist and writer. He is currently Senior Geospatial Data Scientist at BirdsEyeView, where he forecasts the impacts of natural hazards and climate change around the world. Before getting swept up in the unstoppable tide of data, he started as a physicist with a Master’s from Oxford and a PhD… Read more »

Dr. Meredith Elkins is a clinical psychologist specializing in the research and treatment of anxiety and related disorders in children and families. She is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the co-program director at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) at McLean Hospital, an intensive outpatient program for youth with anxiety disorders. She… Read more »

Hermione Taylor is an economics writer for the Investors’ Chronicle at the Financial Times. She specialises in breaking down complex ideas for readers and has won awards for her features on topics such as quantitative tightening and the natural rate of interest. Before journalism, Hermione taught economics at the London School of Economics and spent… Read more »

Dr Rebecca Marks has a PhD in English Romantic literature (University of Cambridge), a Masters in Art History (The Courtauld Institute) and a first-class undergraduate degree in English (University of Oxford). She specialises in the visual work of William Blake and his circle, and has been teaching Romantic English Literature at the University of Cambridge… Read more »

For much of his adult life David worked as a producer of both documentaries and drama for television and the cinema. Several have been nominated for awards including Inspector Morse (BAFTA & RTS award winner), Wide-eyed and Legless, Moll Flanders and Richard III. He lives at Harewood in Yorkshire, which has been his family’s home… Read more »

Jeannette Plummer Sires is an intercultural archaeologist whose work bridges the past and present. Raised between Seville and New York, she has conducted fieldwork across the world, from Viking sites in Iceland and Amerindian settlements in Antigua & Barbuda to Neanderthal caves in Spain and human origins research in Kenya. She served as Curator of… Read more »

Nicola grew up in the Eden Valley in Cumbria as part of a rural working class family, an experience that has shaped both her worldview and her storytelling. A writer and TV producer with twenty-five years of experience, she’s made documentaries on everything from poverty, class and farming to puppies, roller coasters and vacuum cleaners,… Read more »

Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of the bestseller Deep House (UK: Allen Lane, 2025) and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gay Bar (UK: Granta, 2021). His essays appear in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Yale Review, from which he was anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. His sound programs have been… Read more »

Anja Shortland is a Professor in Political Economy at King’s College, London. Her undergraduate degree in Engineering at Oxford, a Masters in the Political Economy at LSE and a PhD in International Relations (also at the LSE), followed by appointments as Lecturer and Reader in Economics at Leicester and Brunel Universities make her a truly… Read more »

Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to create change. His internationally bestselling books, including The Good Ancestor (W H Allen, 2020), Empathy (Rider, 2014) and Carpe Diem Regained (Unbound, 2017), have been published in more than 25 languages. He is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for… Read more »