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 »
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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 »
Tom Butler-Bowdon
Tom is the author of eight books, including 50 Philosophy Classics (2013), 50 Politics Classics (2015), and 50 Psychology Classics, 2nd edition (2017). Bringing important ideas to a wider audience, the 50 Classics series (Nicolas Brealey Publishing), now in 23 languages, is based on the idea that every subject or genre will contain at least 50 books that encapsulate… Read more »
Mary Berry
Bestselling cookery writer and TV star cook, Dame Mary has written over 80 cookbooks, including the classic Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook (DK, 2017) which has sold over 1.5 million copies internationally and The Complete Aga Cookbook (Headline, 2015). Her career began when she developed a passion for domestic science at school – something she outlines… Read more »
Tim Birkhead
A leading expert on ornithology and evolutionary biology, Tim Birkhead is emeritus Professor of Behavioural Ecology at Sheffield University and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His bestselling book Bird Sense was shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize for Science Books in 2013 and What It’s Like to Be a Bird was the winner… Read more »
Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is a novelist, short-story writer and prize-winning author of literary and cultural history. She is the author, editor or co-editor of over twenty books. Her novels include The Shouting in the Dark (longlisted Sunday Times prize, 2015, winner Olive Schreiner Award for Prose, 2019), and Screens against the Sky (shortlisted David Higham Prize,… Read more »
Susan Brigden
Susan was Paul Langford Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford and Reader in History in the University of Oxford. Her first book was London and the Reformation (Clarendon Press, 1989). Her New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 (Penguin Press, 2000) garnered fabulous acclaim. Thomas Wyatt: the Heart’s Forest, a brilliant… Read more »
Adam Brookes
Adam Brookes is an author whose writing draws on his years in China and his study of Chinese, as well as his years as a journalist and foreign correspondent. Adam was born in Canada, but grew up in the UK. He studied Chinese at SOAS, University of London. His first job in broadcast journalism was… Read more »
Julia Bueno
Julia Bueno read law at Oxford University and after a brief career in the law, and another writing for an internet start-up, she trained as a psychotherapist and remains practising 15 years later. Her first book is The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage, published in May 2019 by Virago, and Penguin in the USA…. Read more »
Archie Brown
Archie Brown is a British political scientist and historian who taught for 34 years at Oxford University where he is now Emeritus Professor of Politics and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College. His books include The Gorbachev Factor (US and UK: Oxford University Press, 1996) and The Rise and Fall of Communism (UK: The Bodley Head; US: Ecco… Read more »