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 »
Author type: Non-fiction
Greg Wise
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 »
Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at the independent charity Historic Royal Palaces, responsible for opening up the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace to more than three million visitors a year. She studied history at Oxford before working at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and English Heritage. She has… Read more »
Lucy Young
Acknowledged by Mary Berry as her ‘right arm’, Lucy has worked in cooking for 33 years, and for the last 31 years as Mary’s assistant. She is the author of nine books, four of them co-written with Mary, with an expertise in AGA cooking and in creating no-hassle recipes for family and friends. Her most… Read more »
Anna Whitelock
Anna is Professor in the History of Modern Monarchy and Executive Dean of the School of Communication and Creativity at City St. Georges, University of London. She is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts and a regular contributor to television and radio programmes. Her lively, revisionist… Read more »
Tim Whitmarsh
Tim is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. His brilliant and original book Battling the Gods (2016) has been the subject of worldwide media attention, and was shortlisted for the Runciman Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize and the London Hellenic Prize. It has been described as ‘learned, sweeping and… Read more »
Martin Walker
Martin Walker is the author of the hugely successful Bruno series of crime novels, following on a country policeman in France’s Perigord region who loves to cook but hates to make arrests. They have been translated into 16 languages with nearly 4 million global sales. The Bruno cookbook recently won the Gourmand International Award. Bruno’s… Read more »
Sam Wilkin
Sam Wilkin is director of political risk analytics at Willis Towers Watson. He is also a fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Wealth Secrets of the One Percent (UK: Sceptre, US: Little, Brown, 2015) was an editor’s choice of the New York Times Book… Read more »
Tom Vanderbilt
Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science, and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone; he is contributing editor to Artforum and the design magazines Print and I.D. and a columnist for Slate magazine. He has two previous books, New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (Allen… Read more »
Michael Wood
Historian, filmmaker and broadcaster, Michael Wood is the author of multiple bestselling books, including four UK number one bestsellers, and well over one hundred documentary films, among them In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and The Story of India, which the Wall Street Journal described as ‘still the gold standard’ of documentary history-making. His… Read more »