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 »
Author type: Non-fiction
Ann McPherson (Estate of)
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 »
Tom Moorhouse
Tom Moorhouse is a strange hybrid being, half children’s author and half research ecologist at Oxford University’s Zoology Department (an entity probably not called an “authologist”). Over the years he has met quite a lot of wildlife. Most of it tried to bite him. He loves hiking up mountains, walking through woods, climbing on rocks… Read more »
Tom Nancollas
Tom Nancollas is a building conservationist and writer based in London. Of Cornish ancestry, Tom maintained a love of seascapes during his work in the capital and became fascinated with offshore rock lighthouses, which were the subject of his critically acclaimed first book, Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet (2018), pre-empted by… Read more »
Fiona Maddocks
Chief Music Critic of The Observer, Fiona’s Hildegard of Bingen (2001) was a great critical success when published by Headline and Doubleday (US) and has now been re-issued by Faber. She was part of the team that set up Channel 4, was first music editor at The Independent and founding editor of BBC Music Magazine. She… Read more »
Martin Meredith
Martin Meredith is a journalist, historian and biographer who has written extensively on Africa. A former foreign correspondent based in Africa for fifteen years and then a research fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, he is the author of The State of Africa (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a best-selling history of the continent since independence,… Read more »
Katherine Langrish
Katherine writes children’s fiction and adult non-fiction. She grew up in the Yorkshire Dales ready anything she could get her hands on, especially fairy tales, fantasy and folklore. Following a first degree in English, Katherine went on to study medieval literature at University College and Kings College, London. West of the Moon (Harper Collins, 2011)… Read more »
Helena Kelly
Helena Kelly grew up in North Kent, just down the road from where Charles Dickens used to live. She’s written academic articles and set Oxford University finals examinations on Jane Austen’s novels and has taught courses on Austen to hundreds of people, of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds. Twenty years after she first picked up… Read more »
Anna Machin
Anna Machin is world-renowned for her pioneering work exploring the science and anthropology of fatherhood and her cross-disciplinary interpretation of human love. She is a Visiting Academic at Oxford Brookes University and is passionate about passing on the results of her research to the public. Her first book, The Life of Dad: The Making of the… Read more »
James Kynge
James Kynge is the FT‘s global China editor, based in Hong Kong. He has covered many of the events that have helped shape the region, including China’s reforms of the early 1980s, the Japanese bubble and its deflation, the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, and the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. He was previously… Read more »