Author type: Non-fiction

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 »

Claire Mitchell KC is a Scottish advocate specialising in appellate law, with a particular focus on constitutional issues, human rights, and sentencing. She has been involved in significant cases before the Privy Council and Supreme Court, shaping key aspects of Scottish law. She regularly provides legal training and has received recognition for her contributions to… Read more »

Phuthuma Nhleko was until March 2011 the group CEO of MTN, at the time the sixth largest company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) by market capitalisation and the largest company with a primary listing in South Africa. During his 10-year leadership tenure at MTN from 2002 to 2011, he transformed the company, driving its… Read more »

Andrew Hui is a literary historian who traces the smallest turns of language to uncover the largest ideas. The author of three books—The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton 2025); A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Princeton, 2019, translated into five languages); and The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature (Fordham, 2017), he explores the movement… Read more »

Non is a writer, garden designer and wildflower hunter.  She writes extensively and imaginatively on gardens and plants. She is Contributing Editor at House & Garden, writes regularly for Country Life and has a monthly column for The English Garden, taking over in 2021 from Katherine Swift (The Morville Hours).  She has contributed to Gardens… Read more »

Emily is interested in how children are cared for, and who by. Her first book, Saving the Children (UCP, 2021), was shortlisted for the RHS Whitbread Prize and Grace Abbott Book Prize. Now, she is working on a new project titled Love’s Labour: A History of Love and Work, which traces the story of infant care… Read more »