Author type: Non-fiction

Claire Mitchell KC is a Scottish advocate specialising in appellate law, with a particular focus on constitutional issues, human rights, and sentencing. She has been involved in significant cases before the Privy Council and Supreme Court, shaping key aspects of Scottish law. She regularly provides legal training and has received recognition for her contributions to… Read more »

Phuthuma Nhleko was until March 2011 the group CEO of MTN, at the time the sixth largest company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) by market capitalisation and the largest company with a primary listing in South Africa. During his 10-year leadership tenure at MTN from 2002 to 2011, he transformed the company, driving its… Read more »

Andrew Hui is a literary historian who traces the smallest turns of language to uncover the largest ideas. The author of three books—The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton 2025); A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Princeton, 2019, translated into five languages); and The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature (Fordham, 2017), he explores the movement… Read more »

Non is a writer, garden designer and wildflower hunter.  She writes extensively and imaginatively on gardens and plants. She is Contributing Editor at House & Garden, writes regularly for Country Life and has a monthly column for The English Garden, taking over in 2021 from Katherine Swift (The Morville Hours).  She has contributed to Gardens… Read more »

Emily is interested in how children are cared for, and who by. Her first book, Saving the Children (UCP, 2021), was shortlisted for the RHS Whitbread Prize and Grace Abbott Book Prize. Now, she is working on a new project titled Love’s Labour: A History of Love and Work, which traces the story of infant care… Read more »

Alex Kaiserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He works on questions at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics; for example, questions which explore the connections between causation and responsibility, possibility and free will, or time and punishment. Alex’s first book, How to Get Back to the Future, will be published… Read more »

Caroline is a historian, curator and broadcaster specialising in the arts of early modern Europe with a particular focus on decorative arts, women’s lives and the history of collecting. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds and is currently Lecturer in French and British History of Art, c.1650-1900 at the University of Edinburgh…. Read more »

Serena is a historian, writer, and broadcaster specialising in histories of fashion, shopping, and women’s lives from the sixteenth century to the present day. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Warwick, and she is Associate Professor of Fashion History at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her words have appeared in The Independent,… Read more »

Priya Khanchandani is a writer, curator and broadcaster who grew up in Luton and lives in London. She studied modern languages at Cambridge University and design history at the Royal College of Art. She was a lawyer before becoming a critic and curator, most recently working as head of curatorial of the Design Museum. She… Read more »