Georgina Ferry is a science writer, author and broadcaster. She has been a staff editor and feature writer on New Scientist, and a regular presenter of science programmes on BBC radio. Her biography of Britain’s only female Nobel-prizewinning scientist, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998; Bloomsbury, 2014), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. The… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
John Dickie
John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London. Hodder published his Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia in 2004, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller and won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year. In 2007, he published Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and their… Read more »
James Fearnley
James Fearnley was a co-founder and the accordionist for the London-Irish celtic-punk band The Pogues. The Pogues took off into international renown in 1984, disbanding 12 years later with the firing of their lead singer. Reunifying in 2001, The Pogues played around the world until 2014. Upon his departure from the band in 1993, James… Read more »
Christopher Duggan (Estate of)
Christopher Duggan (1957-2015) was a world-leading historian of Modern Italy. His interest in Italy, initially for the Medieval period, began in his teens and he travelled in the country before and after his undergraduate degree. Duggan earned his D.Phil in History at Merton College, Oxford, on the topic of Fascism’s struggle against the Mafia. In… Read more »
Emma Byrne
Dr Emma Byrne is a scientist, journalist, and public speaker. Her training in AI and computational neuroscience sparked a fascination with the decidedly un-computational ways that our minds work. She is co-host and exec-producer of NonFicPod, and frequently appears on Sky News and the BBC talking about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics. She… Read more »
Humphrey Carpenter (Estate of)
Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005) was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children’s writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC before becoming a full-time author in 1975. He wrote biographies of Tolkien, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, Robert Runcie, Archbishop… Read more »
Artemis Cooper
Author of the superb Paris After the Liberation (Penguin, 1994), co-written with Antony Beevor, her Cairo in the War (John Murray Press, 1989) was described as ‘a fascinating and entertaining evocation of a vanished world’ by Penelope Lively. She has also edited the letters of her grandparents: A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and… Read more »
Peter Chapman
The Financial Times journalist’s Jungle Capitalists: a Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution (2008) was published by Canongate in the UK and, as Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Grove in the US. The Observer said this about the book: ‘If you only read a handful of non-fiction books this year, Jungle Capitalists is among your… Read more »
Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brunel University. His books include The Ascent of Gravity (W&N, 2017), which was The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year; The Magicians (Faber & Faber, 2020); Infinity in the Palm… Read more »
Karl Bushby
The former Paratrooper hit the headlines when he was arrested in Russia in April 2006, having become the first man to cross the Bering Straits from Alaska by foot. His first book, Giant Steps, in which he tells the true story of his ongoing record-breaking attempt to walk solo around the world, was published by Little,… Read more »