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 »
Author type: Non-fiction
Dominic Frisby
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
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
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 OBE’s Agatha Christie, A Very Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) was a Sunday Times number one best seller. It followed the best-selling Jane Austen at Home (2017) and Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (2019) with the same publisher. Other non-fiction includes A Very British Murder (BBC Books) and with Faber &… 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 »