Dr Mark Avery writes mostly on birds, their biology and their conservation. He worked for the RSPB for 25 years – first as a scientist but for nearly 13 years as Conservation Director. In 2011 he left the RSPB to go freelance. He writes a daily blog on UK nature conservation issues and regularly for… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
James Barr
James Barr has worked in politics, at the Daily Telegraph, in the city and as a political officer at the British Embassy in Paris. He now runs his own research business. In 2006, Bloomsbury published his history of the Arab revolt during the First World War, Setting the Desert on Fire. In 2011 he followed this… Read more »
Richard Koch
Richard is a former management consultant, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He has helped to start, rescue, and fund many outstandingly successful companies including Filofax, Plymouth Gin, Betfair, and Auto1, and LEK Consulting. Koch has authored or co-authored around 25 books dealing with business ideas and personal success. In 1997, The 80/20 Principle (Currency Books) pioneered a… Read more »
James Fairhead
James is a social anthropologist who has spent many years researching the sophisticated ecological knowledge of some of the poorest inhabitants of West and central Africa. In a longstanding research partnership with his wife, fellow anthropologist Melissa Leach, he has published many academic books ranging from the prize-winning Misreading the African Landscape to those on Vaccine… Read more »
Nick Edwards
Dr Nick Edwards is an A&E consultant whose first book, In Stitches, was published by HarperCollins in 2007 and has sold over 100,000 copies. He writes with shocking honesty and humour about what it’s really like to work in Accident & Emergency, from the ridiculous government targets, to the bizarre ‘accidents’, foreign bodies inserted in… Read more »
Benjamin Daniels
Dr Ben Daniels is author of Confessions of a GP, a witty insight into the life of a family doctor. Funny and moving in equal measure, it will change the way you look at your GP next time you pop in with the sniffles. Published by HarperCollins, Confessions was a no. 1 bestseller and became… Read more »
Francis Crick (Estate of)
Francis Crick (1916-2004) was one of Britain’s greatest scientists. He is best known for his work with James Watson which led to the identification of the structure of DNA in 1953, drawing on the work of Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and others. This discovery proved to be of enormous importance to biomedical research and earned… Read more »