Author type: Non-fiction

Eloise Rickman is a writer and parent educator. Her most recent book It’s Not Fair: why it’s time for a grown-up conversation about how adults treat children (June 2024, Scribe) offers a practical manifesto for children’s liberation. It’s Not Fair argues that children’s resistance and struggle for equality has been largely ignored by the wider… Read more »

Paul is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is the author of  Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (OUP, 2010), which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, and The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (University of… Read more »

Charlotte Lydia Riley teaches history at the University of Southampton. Her first book, Imperial Island (Bodley Head, 2023), tells an alternative history of Britain from the Second World War to the present day. The book traces the ways that empire and decolonisation have left their mark on British history, society, politics and culture, and tells the story of… Read more »

Emma is a Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Oxford Faculty of English and a Fellow of Hertford College. Her first trade book, This is Shakespeare (Pelican, 2019), attracted praise from James Shapiro and Hilary Mantel, among others, and was a Times Book of the Year 2019. Alex Preston called it “the best introduction to… Read more »

Kate is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She has recently been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project on the history of silence in English. Literature and silence may seem a paradoxical subject, but in its treatment of… Read more »

Natasha is a journalist at Red magazine and the founder of Conversations on Love, an email newsletter investigating love one interview at a time. Through conversations with guests such as Hilary Mantel, Susie Orbach and Lemn Sissay, she hopes to invite readers to think more deeply about all the different forms of love in their… Read more »

Born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford, Michael is a writer, art historian and radio broadcaster. He has penned monographs on Lynn Chadwick, Sandra Blow, Bryan Wynter and George Fullard, and written books on the St Ives Artists and ideas that changed art, as well as a journey through 40,000 years of art… Read more »

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in medieval history from Clare College, Cambridge, and is an editorial director at Penguin UK. His first book, the bestselling Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England (Penguin Press UK; Simon & Schuster US, 2011) won the HW Fisher Prize and was named a Book of the Year… Read more »

Samantha Walton teaches literature at Bath Spa University. Her first book, Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. It tells the story of how and why we seek nature for health and wellbeing, from sacred springs to forest baths, city parks to the brave new world of virtual… Read more »