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 »
Author type: Non-fiction
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 »
Joseph Jebelli
Dr Joseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist and a writer. He received a PhD in neuroscience from University College London for his work on the cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases, then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. His much acclaimed first book, In Pursuit of Memory (2017), published by John… Read more »
Tim Hecker
Tim is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles and Montreal. Few artists in the field of explorative ambient music have remained as questing and unclassifiable, and over his fifteen-year career in the industry he has released a number of acclaimed and award-winning albums including Harmony in Ultraviolet, Ravedeath, 1972 and Love… Read more »
Peter Heather
Peter Heather is Chair of Medieval History at Kings College London, where his research interests lie in the later Roman Empire and its successor states. Of his ground-breaking The Fall of the Roman Empire, Tom Holland wrote ‘Heather provides the reader with drama and lurid colour as well as analysis. . . he succeeds triumphantly’…. Read more »
Lindsey Hilsum
As International Editor for Britain’s Channel 4 News, Lindsey has covered many of the conflicts of the last 20 years, including Syria, Ukraine, Iraq as well as the Arab Spring. She was the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide began in 1994, and has won numerous awards, including an Emmy, a BAFTA, the… Read more »