Author type: Non-fiction

Marc Zao-Sanders

Marc Zao-Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of filtered.com, a learning tech company. He regularly writes about algorithms, learning and productivity in Scientific American, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, as well as Filtered’s blog. Marc’s article about Timeboxing in Harvard Business Review became popular immediately and has remained so ever since. Five… Read more »

Dominic Gregory

He is currently working on his first book, Lifeboat At The End Of The World (William Collins, 2025).

Tim Kendall

Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall are a married couple who live in the wilds of East Devon. They share their house with two teenage daughters, two rabbits, a Labrador, and a rehabilitating common pipistrelle bat. They have also written a book together, Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures With Britain’s Wild Mammals (Oneworld, 2023). Tim is Professor… Read more »

Fiona Mathews

Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall are a married couple who live in the wilds of East Devon. They share their house with two teenage daughters, two rabbits, a Labrador, and a rehabilitating common pipistrelle bat. They have also written a book together, Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures With Britain’s Wild Mammals (Oneworld, 2023). Fiona is Professor… Read more »

Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope CBE has been writing for nearly fifty years and is one of our most acclaimed and beloved novelists – her work has attracted considerable critical acclaim as well as huge commercial success. Her novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages and several have been adapted for television. Joanna is the author of… Read more »

Harry Sidebottom

Dr Harry Sidebottom was brought up in racing stables in Newmarket, where his father was a trainer, and was in a basket saddle on a donkey before he could walk. He was educated at various schools and universities, including Warwick and Oxford, where he took his doctorate (with Studies in Dio Chrysostom “On Kingship”) in… Read more »

Danny Scott

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

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 »

Chris Patten

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

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 »