Author type: Non-fiction

An internationally acclaimed garden writer and designer, Penelope is the holder of the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour and in 1999 received the Garden Writers’ Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. She has lectured and taken tours to gardens in Europe, America and Asia. Her Penelope Hobhouse On Gardening described her famous garden at Tintinhull. Penelope’s Colour… Read more »

Belinda Jack is Fellow and Tutor in French at Christ Church, University of Oxford. An expert in French 19th and 20th century literature, Belinda wrote a major biography of George Sand (1999) for Chatto and Knopf. Chatto and The Other Press published Beatrice’s Spell (2004), the extraordinary story of the 17th century Roman girl who… Read more »

Colin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. He is CBE and a Fellow of the British Academy. The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Oxford, 2015), was widely praised and listed in book-of-the-year lists for 2015 by many national media. He specialises in the history of France, and his numerous early… Read more »

Tim Harford is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is a senior columnist for the Financial Times, writing as “The Undercover Economist”, and presenter of BBC Radio’s “More or Less”, “How To Vaccinate the World”, and “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy,” as well as the podcast “Cautionary Tales”. Tim is an associate member… Read more »

Professor Chris Gosden is Chair of European Archaeology at Oxford University and has carried out archaeological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan, Borneo and Britain. Previously, he was a curator and lecturer at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, where he worked on the history of collections and their relevance to post-colonial relations and identity. Chris… Read more »

Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of a trilogy of books in refugee history, including The Making of the Modern Refugee, published by Oxford University Press in 2013 and described as ‘magisterial’ and ‘a tour de force’. In 1999 Indiana University Press published A Whole… Read more »

Jonathan Glover is a distinguished British philosopher known for his studies on ethics. For thirty years, Jonathan taught at New College, Oxford, and since 1988 he has taught at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College London. His books include Causing Death and Saving Lives (Penguin, 1977) and Choosing Children: Genes, Disability and… Read more »

James Hamilton is a curator, writer and lecturer. He has written widely on nineteenth and twentieth century art, with a particular interest in artists whose work crosses the boundaries which tend to separate art, literature and science. He was University Curator and Honorary Reader at the University of Birmingham from 1992 until retirement in 2013,… Read more »

Robert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and European History, with a particular focus on the fall-out from the French Revolution, everyday life and resistance in the Second World War and 1968. His Marianne in Chains: In Search of Occupied France, published in 2002… Read more »

Barbara is a classicist and cultural historian. She is currently Professor of Classics at Durham University, where her research focuses on ancient Greek literature and its readers – both ancient and modern. She is a regular broadcaster for BBC arts programmes, and reviews for The London Review of Books and The Times Higher Education Supplement. Her marvellous and… Read more »