David Robson was the youngest-ever features editor at New Scientist and worked for three years as a writer and editor at BBC Future, where he specialised in topics related to neuroscience and psychology, particularly intelligence. He regularly features on the radio discussing scientific issues, and his writing has also appeared in Nature, the Sydney Morning… Read more »
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Alex Riley
Alex Riley is a 27-year-old science writer focusing on long-form features in evolutionary biology, conservation, and health. His work has appeared in Aeon, Nautilus, New Scientist, Hakai Magazine, PBS’s NOVA Next, BBC Earth, and BBC Future. In 2017, he wrote a feature for The Open Notebook about managing a career in science writing while living… Read more »
Ritchie Robertson
Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004. His academic books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1985);… Read more »
Edward Russell-Walling
Edward is a freelance writer and editor who specialises in business and finance and contributes regularly to publications such as the Financial Times, New Statesman and The Banker. Quercus published his first book 50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know (2008), which aims to demystify many of the business theories and buzzwords that the… Read more »
Rosamond Richardson (Estate of)
Familiar to many as author of the Penguin Classic Hedgerow Cookery and co-presenter of BBC Two’s Discovering Hedgerows, Rosamond Richardson (1945-2017) published several books on the countryside. She was also a regular contributor to The Countryman and wrote a monthly ‘Reflections’ page for Britain’s biggest-selling bird magazine Bird Watching. Her final book, Waiting for the Albino Dunnock, published in 2017.
Mirabel Osler (Estate of)
Mirabel Osler (1925-2016) was a garden designer and regular writer for the garden magazine Hortus. She married Julian Osler in 1951 and they lived in Thailand and Corfu before returning to live in Shropshire. Her book, A Gentle Plea for Chaos: The Enchantment of Gardening (1989), is a stirring appeal for gardens that have lives… Read more »
David Pilling
As Financial Times Asia Editor, David Pilling spent seven years as Tokyo Bureau Chief. His Bending Adversity – Japan and the Art of Survival was published by Penguin Press in the UK and US in 2014. His most recent book is The Growth Delusion – Why Economists are Getting It Wrong and What We Can Do about It,… Read more »
Sue Prideaux
Sue Prideaux is Anglo-Norwegian. Her first biography, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (Yale UP, 2005) won the James Tait Black prize. Strindberg: A Life (2012), shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize, won the Duff Cooper. She has written for the TLS, The Economist, The Art Newspaper, The Spectator and spoken at many museums including Tate… Read more »
James Naughtie
For many years a political correspondent on The Scotsman and then The Guardian, Jim Naughtie became a household name first as presenter of Radio 4’s The World at One and then of The Today Programme. He is now a special correspondent for BBC News and presents Radio 4’s Bookclub, and has also chaired the Man… Read more »
John Julius Norwich (Estate of)
John Julius Norwich was wonderful historian in the tradition of brilliant story-telling, and his celebrated history of Venice is a classic. His books sell in many languages and he was an immensely popular lecturer and broadcaster. His A Short History of Byzantium (condensing his three volumes) was published by Knopf and Viking. The Middle Sea:… Read more »