Nick Potter’s book The Meaning of Pain: A Radical New Approach to Overcoming Chronic Pain (Short Books, 2019) is a brilliantly thought-provoking examination of how the stress of modern life is making us hurt. An acclaimed osteopath, Potter (‘The man who taught me to breathe’ — Sir Elton John) has 27 years’ clinical experience and is one… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
Svenja O’Donnell
Svenja O’Donnell has worked as a print and television journalist for the past 15 years. As Bloomberg’s UK political correspondent, she was awarded the Washington-based National Press Club’s Breaking News award in 2017 for her coverage of the Brexit referendum. Prior to that role, she reported on a variety of subjects from economics to conflict… Read more »
Farhan Samanani
Farhan Samanani is a Social Anthropologist working at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. Born in Canada, he has a Master’s degree in Migration Studies from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Gates Scholar. Farhan’s research focuses on how difference… Read more »
Henry Mance
Henry is an award-winning journalist at the Financial Times. His first book, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World, is a wide-ranging and personal journey that explores humans’ relationship with other species – covering topics including farming, pets, zoos, and conservation. Acquired by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Viking in the US, it… Read more »
Tess Little
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 »
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 »