Author type: Non-fiction

Rachel is a writer and academic. She lived in Russia for over a decade and is now an affiliated lecturer in Slavonic Studies at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. Her Molotov’s Magic Lantern was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US and was shortlisted for the LA Times History Prize in… Read more »

Diane is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford and fellow of Keble College. Her areas of interest include  the English Civil War, Milton, and Marvell; Marvell in manuscript culture; the supernatural, especially witchcraft; food and food history; children’s literature; folklore and folktale/fairytale; writer’s block and the writing process. The English Civil War: A People’s… Read more »

T N Ninan is a distinguished business journalist based in New Delhi. He is the author of Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future (Penguin India, 2015; Oxford University Press, 2016).

Colm is Executive Director of Amnesty International in Ireland and The Irish Examiner‘s Food Columnist. He has made two documentaries for the BBC: Suing the Pope and Sex Crimes and the Vatican for Panorama. He is a well-known figure in the Irish media and has received numerous awards for his campaigning and charity work. Hodder… Read more »

Laurie is Professor of English literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. She has held major fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2014 co-won the Calvin Hoffman prize for best work on Christopher Marlowe. Her Where There’s a… Read more »

Previously the Independent’s award-winning racing correspondent, he is the author of Mr Darley’s Arabian (John Murray Press, 2016), a book on the line of thoroughbred stallions that are all descended from one horse, the Darley Arabian, acquired by a Yorkshire family scion from Bedouin tribesmen in Aleppo in 1704. Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports… Read more »

Modern Baker was a successful organic bakery in Oxford that has transformed into the Superloaf brand. Melissa Sharp, whose brainchild it is, and her team bake with natural sourdough which encourages the good gut bacteria. Melissa wrote a recipe book for Ebury Press, entitled A New Way to Bake, which published in May 2017. The… Read more »

Toby Matthiesen is a Historian and Political Scientist with a focus on the Middle East and Global Islam. He teaches at the University of Bristol, has held academic positions at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE and has been a Marie Curie Global Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University and Stanford University. He is… Read more »

Ann McPherson (1945-2011) was a pioneering GP, health communicator, champion of the NHS and patient advocate. Brought up in North London, she attended St George’s Hospital Medical School and graduated with a distinction, top of her year. After training stints in London, Oxford and Harvard, obtaining her membership of the Royal College of GPs, again… Read more »