Author type: Non-fiction

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 »

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 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 »

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 »