Edmund de Waal is an artist and writer. Born in 1964, he is best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, with recent exhibitions at Artipleag, Stockholm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Kunsthaus, Graz, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Gagosian Gallery, Beverley Hills and New York and… Read more »
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Hugh Wilford
Hugh Wilford is Professor of U.S. History at California State University, Long Beach. He is author of, among other books, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Harvard University Press, 2008), a history of covert CIA funding of apparently private American citizen groups in the Cold War. His most recent book, America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret… Read more »
Marc Stears
Marc Stears is the author of Demanding Democracy (Princeton, 2010), Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again (Harvard University Press, 2021), which makes a passionate case that both the left and right have lost… Read more »
Julie Summers
Julie is an author and historian with a special interest in the Second World War. The Colonel: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai (Simon & Schuster 2005) was a biography of her grandfather. Stranger in the House was published in September 2008 by Simon & Schuster and looked at the impact of… Read more »
Adrian Tinniswood
Adrian Tinniswood OBE FSA is the author of eighteen books on social and architectural history, including The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars, 1918-1939 (Jonathan Cape, 2016), which became a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. A sequel, Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II, was… Read more »
Alom Shaha
Alom Shaha is a father of two and a Physics teacher at a comprehensive school in London. His latest book Why Don’t Things Fall up? (Hodder, 2023) uses apparently simple questions asked by children as starting points for a tour of the “big ideas” of science from his unique perspective. It was followed by How to… Read more »
Miriam Stoppard
Doctor, businesswoman, writer, Miriam Stoppard OBE is also a grandmother to twelve grandchildren and has written over eighty books on pregnancy, parenting, women’s health, nutrition, sex and health for older people. She produced the charming and practical guide The Grandparents Book (Dorling Kindersley, 2006), in addition to The Complete Book of Baby and Childcare (Dorling… Read more »
Sir Roy Strong CH
A distinguished historian, gardener, designer and all round polymath. Roy’s magnum opus The Story of Britain (Jonathan Cape) hit the bestseller lists in 1997 and became a classic still in print. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria & Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. In… Read more »
Sue Stuart-Smith
Sue Stuart-Smith is a prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist who completed a degree in English Literature at Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor. She worked in the NHS for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant… Read more »
Katherine Swift
A magical voice in gardening, Katherine’s The Morville Hours, a delicious book about the house and garden where she lives in Shropshire set in the form of a Book of Hours, was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury and became a bestseller. She worked as a rare book librarian in Oxford and Dublin before moving to… Read more »