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 »
Author type: Non-fiction
Patrick Hennessey
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 »
Jon Harvey
Jon Harvey is a writer, performer and producer specialising in comedy. He has produced, written for and appeared on many of the biggest satirical TV shows of the last thirty years, including The Thick Of It, Have I Got News For You, Time Trumpet with Armando Iannucci, Yes Minister and Last Week Tonight with John… Read more »
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history; among his books are The Legend of Napoleon (Granta, 2004), In the Shadow of the General (OUP, 2012) and How the… Read more »
Tom Gregory
Tom Gregory grew up in Eltham, South-East London. Joining the local swimming club aged seven, he began to dream of swimming the English Channel. Training over the following four years, he swam a length of Lake Windermere aged ten, and began preparing in earnest for the Channel attempt after his eleventh birthday. Setting off from… Read more »
Jane Dunn
Historian and biographer Jane (FRSL) is the author of seven acclaimed biographies, including Mary Shelley: Moon in Eclipse (W&N, 1978), the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf: A Very Close Conspiracy (Little, Brown, 1991), Antonia White: Bound to the Fiery Wheel (Jonathan Cape, 1998) and Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters (HarperPress, 2013), as well… Read more »
Nicholas Crane
Nicholas Crane is an author, geographer, cartographic expert and recipient of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Mungo Park Medal in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge, and of the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award for popularising geography and the understanding of Britain. Between 2015 and 2018, Nick was the elected President of the Royal… Read more »
Charlie Colenutt
Charlie Colenutt studied history at the University of Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize. After his undergraduate studies, he stayed in Oxford as the Amelia Jackson scholar, completing a postgraduate degree on the history of the United States. He then had a brief turn as a commercial barrister, before leaving law to work as… Read more »
Claire Cohen
Claire Cohen is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. She was named Women’s Editor of the Year by the prestigious British Society of Magazine Editors for her agenda-setting articles and campaigning. She regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and national radio, as well as being an experienced public speaker. Claire has written for publications… Read more »
Barnabas Calder
Barnabas Calder is a historian of architecture specialising in British architecture since 1945. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and is compiling an online complete works of Sir Denys Lasdun, funded by the Graham Foundation and in collaboration with the RIBA British Architectural Library Special Collections.