Tess Little is a writer and historian. She was born in Norwich, read history at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and is currently studying for the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she completed a doctorate on 1970s feminist… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
Thomas Halliday
Thomas Halliday is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, specialising in mammal evolution and phylogenetics. He holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Birmingham, and is a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum. His research combines theoretical and real data to investigate long-term patterns in the fossil record, particularly in mammals. Thomas… Read more »
Jon Savage
Cultural commentator and journalist Jon Savage is the author of numerous books on popular culture, including England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Faber, 1991), winner of the 1993 Ralph Gleason Award, and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875–1945 and 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Chatto & Windus, 2007) winner of the 2016 Penderyn… Read more »
David Reynolds
Writer and publisher David Reynolds is the author of Swan River: A Family Memoir (Picador, 2001), which was short-listed for the J. R. Ackerley Award, and Slow Road to Brownsville: A Journey Through the Heart of the Old West (Greystone Press, 2014). His latest book, Slow Road to San Francisco, was published by Muswell Press in 2020. David’s debut… Read more »
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born on 19 August 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His first surviving story, a detective thriller called The Castle of Mystery, was written at the age of eight. The first few pages of this story appear in his novel What a Carve Up! (Viking, 1994). He continued writing fiction throughout… Read more »
Graham Caveney
Graham Caveney began his writing career at the New Musical Express in the 1980s before going to write for a variety of papers and magazines including The Face, City Limits, Q, Guardian, The Independent, The Independent On Sunday, Arena and GQ. His books include Shopping In Space: Essays on Blank American Fiction (Serpent’s Tail, 1992; with… Read more »
Rebecca Lowe
Rebecca Lowe is a freelance journalist from London who specialises in human rights and the Middle East. In 2015-16, she cycled 11,000km solo from London to Tehran. Her first book, The Slow Road to Tehran, documenting her year-long journey, paints a living portrait of the Middle East through its people, its politics and its historic relationship with the… Read more »
Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi
Ọrẹ is a Nigerian-British Politics and International Relations graduate from Jesus College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she pioneered the Benin Bronze Repatriation Campaign, the #BlackMenOfCambridgeUniversity Campaign and was President of the African-Caribbean Society. She has since completed a Masters in Journalism at Columbia University, New York and is currently working as a Special Assistant and… Read more »
Chelsea Kwakye
Chelsea Kwakye is a British-Ghanaian History graduate from Homerton College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she was the only Black girl in her year group of around 200 people studying History. During her time at University, she was Homerton’s BME Officer and Vice-President of the African-Caribbean Society. She is currently studying at the University of Law… Read more »
Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian, the 25th person to hold the senior executive position in the library of the University of Oxford. Since 1987 he has worked in a number of important archives and libraries, including the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland (as a Curator of Rare Books) and in the… Read more »