Author type: Non-fiction

Danny Scott is a freelance writer and journalist. He grew up in an East Midlands mining village, serving his apprenticeship as an engineer on leaving school, before moving to London in the 1980s. After a job in counter (industrial) espionage, he became a private investigator, then a painter and decorator, then an engineer again, before… Read more »

Oliver Poole was the West Coast correspondent for the Daily Telegraph from September 2001 until the spring of 2004. In 2003 he was embedded with the Third Infantry Division of the US Army during its push from Kuwait to Baghdad. He was then for many years the Iraq Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, based in… Read more »

Rt Hon. Lord Patten of Barnes CH was Chancellor of Oxford University. As a British MP (1979-92) he served as Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party, being described afterwards as ‘the best Tory Prime Minister we never had’ (Observer). He is well known for being the… Read more »

Neil Mercer is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Oracy Cambridge: the Hughes Hall Centre for Effective Spoken Communication. He is a Life Fellow of Hughes Hall, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Before Cambridge, he was Professor of Language and Communications at the Open University…. Read more »

Duncan Mackay is an archaeologist with a love of landscape and stories. He believes that every place, indoors or out, urban, rural or wild, has its own link with the past, and a unique tale to tell. Duncan worked in archaeology for nearly two decades, predominantly with the University of Cambridge Archaeological Unit. He left… Read more »

Rebecca Loncraine was born in England and grew up on a hill farm in the Black Mountains of Wales. After attending art school, she studied history and literature, and wrote a doctorate in English literature at Oxford University. A career as a freelance writer followed, with Beccy writing for the national press. Research for her… Read more »

Matt Lewis was born in 1974 in Bristol, England. He studied Marine Biology at University in Bangor, Wales, and then Aberdeen, Scotland. The Sudur Havid was his first deployment as a Scientific Observer – he went on to complete another deployment (without sinking) before moving on to a warmer, drier career. A decade and a… Read more »

Joshua Levine is an historian and author of bestselling history, including the Sunday Times and New York Times #1 bestseller, Dunkirk (William Collins, 2017), On a Wing and a Prayer (William Collins, 2008) telling the story of aerial combat in the Great War,  a prize-winning history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Beauty & Atrocity (William Collins, 2010), Operation Fortitude (William Collins, 2011), The Secret… Read more »

Patrick Hennessey is a writer and broadcaster.  He was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. On leaving university he joined the Army and served from 2004 to 2009 as an officer in the Grenadier Guards. In between guarding towers, castles and palaces he worked in… Read more »