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 »
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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 »
Ursula Buchan
A distinguished writer on gardening and social history, Ursula read Modern History at Cambridge, before training in horticulture at Kew and at Wisley. She is the author of 18 books, including three compilations of her journalism. All have been well received, in particular The English Garden, which was published in November, 2006 and was a… Read more »
Dame Claire Bertschinger DBE DL
Dame Claire Bertschinger is Director for the Diploma in Tropical Nursing Course at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is credited with inspiring the global fundraising phenomenon, Band Aid and Live Aid, generating around £150m for starving people in Ethiopia. Her work in the country in 1984, when the effects of civil… Read more »
Andrew Blum
Andrew is a correspondent at Wired magazine whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. His first book, Tubes, was published by Penguin in 2012 to wide acclaim and became a National Bestseller. It was described by Independent as ‘this year’s most original and stimulating “travel” book’. His second book, The Weather Machine:… Read more »
David Barrie
David Barrie’s Sextant is a beautifully written account of the art of celestial navigation and the vital part it played in the exploration and mapping of the world. It was published by HarperPress and William Morrow in 2014 to excellent reviews. Translations have also been published by Rizzoli in Italy and Mare in Germany. It… Read more »