Professor Lipscomb is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster. She is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Roehampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a columnist for History Today. Suzannah was formerly a Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace, and has won awards for her work in the heritage sector, including… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of Church History at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and prize-winning author, has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. This brilliant historian’s Thomas Cranmer (Yale University Press, 1997) won the Duff Cooper Prize and Whitbread Biography Awards. Penguin UK and US published Reformation (2003), which won the… Read more »
Lucy Lethbridge
Lucy is a journalist and author, specialising in popular history books for adults and children. She has written for the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and the TLS. She has been the Literary Editor of the Tablet and the London correspondent for Art News in New York. Lucy lives in London and is… Read more »
Sir John Lister-Kaye
Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Scotland’s best-known naturalists and conservationists. John came to live in the Highlands of Scotland in 1968 to work with the celebrated author and naturalist, Gavin Maxwell, of Ring of Bright Water fame. After Maxwell’s sudden death in 1969, John decided to commemorate Gavin’s work and writing by finishing the story of the… Read more »
Phyllida Law
Phyllida is a well-known actress whose first book Notes to My Mother-in-Law sold at auction to Fourth Estate (2009). Her second book How Many Camels Are There in Holland is an amusing account of her relationship with her mother who had Alzheimer’s. The book was published by Fourth Estate in spring 2013. The Omnibus edition… Read more »
Alysa Levene
Alysa read Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, and is now a professional historian and Reader at Oxford Brookes University. She has written several academic books on the history of child health and. Her first trade book, Cake: A Slice of History – a lively examination of cake and what it can tell us about ourselves… Read more »
Alice Hunt
Alice is an Associate Professor of English at Southampton University and the author of The Drama of Coronation (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She is also the co-editor, with Anna Whitelock, of a book about Mary I and Elizabeth I, co-author of the Rough Guide to Royals (2012), and has contributed to several television programmes, including… Read more »
Robert Hutton
Robert Hutton is the former UK political correspondent for Bloomberg News. He now works as a regular sketchwriter for The Critic. His first book, Romps, Tots and Boffins (Elliott & Thompson, 2013), was a satirical examination of the words only journalists use. Next came Would They Lie to You? (Elliott & Thompson, 2014), about the way politicians got around… Read more »
Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston is a screenwriter and novelist. Her non-fiction book Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found was published by S&S in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK (2010). It was serialised in The Sunday Times and praised by Salman Rushdie, Simon Schama, Andrew Harvey and Lynn Barber, among others. Her first… Read more »
Nick Jubber
Nick Jubber is an award-winning travel writer. He is fascinated by storytelling, nomadism, exploration and the connections (or misconnections!) between past and present. His first book, The Prester Quest (Bantam, 2005), which follows the mission of a medieval physician sent in search of a mythical priest-king from Venice to Ethiopia, won the Dolman Travel Book… Read more »