Author type: Non-fiction

Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian. Her most recent book Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune explores this much-maligned emotion, and was published in Autumn 2018 (UK, Wellcome/Profile; US, Little Brown). Her previous book, The Book of Human Emotions (UK Wellcome/Profile 2015; US Little Brown, 2016) tells the stories of 154 feelings from around… Read more »

Dr Ian Black (1953-2023) was a Middle East editor, diplomatic editor and European editor for the Guardian newspaper. He reported and commented extensively on the Arab uprisings and their aftermath in Syria, Libya and Egypt, and paid frequent visits to Iran, the Gulf and across the MENA region. He earned an MA in History and… Read more »

Josephine is currently Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor of Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. In January 2025 she will take up the Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, the eighth person and first woman to hold that position since its creation in 1898…. Read more »

Andrew Pettegree  is one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. His prizewinning study of early print culture, The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010) was a New York Times… Read more »

Michael Woodridge is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford, where he uses game theory to understand how to build AI agents that can cooperate with each other. He has won national and international awards for research, science communication and scientific leadership. In 2023 he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and in… Read more »

James teaches English Literature and Film Studies at the University of Ottawa. His first book, Gilded Youth: Privilege and Rebellion in the British Public School, was published by Reaktion in February 2019. His new book, Accelerate! A History of the 1990s, was published by The History Press in 2022.

Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. He founded WBS’s Behavioural Science group, which this the largest of its kind in Europe, is co-founder of research consultancy Decision Technology, advises the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team and was scientist-in-residence on the BBC Radio 4 series The Human Zoo. He is a member… Read more »

Dominic Frisby is that unusual combination, a comedian and a financial writer. He has written two previous books, Life After the State (2013) and Bitcoin (2014), both for Unbound. Daylight Robbery: The Past, Present and Future of Tax, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2019. His latest book, The Secret History of Gold (Penguin, 2025), is the definitive biography of… Read more »

Susan Golombok is Professor Emerita of Family Research and Director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge. Susan has pioneered research on new family forms including families created through assisted reproductive technologies, such as egg donation and surrogacy, and families with same-sex and transgender parents. She was elected as a Fellow… Read more »

Greg Wise has written a moving, thought-provoking and surprisingly funny book with his sister Clare, who died of cancer in September 2016. Not That Kind of Love is both a wonderful description of a journey to death and a celebration of the act of living. Based on Clare Wise’s blog, which she started when she… Read more »