Author type: Non-fiction

James Yorkston

James Yorkston is one of the most celebrated artists in British contemporary music. Over the course of a 15-year career as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, he’s recorded a series of acclaimed albums showcasing a balance of folk and contemporary roots, often drawing deeply on traditional songs and narrative heritage. As a popular live performer and… Read more »

Jasper Rees

Jasper Rees has been a journalist since 1988. He has written over the years for most broadsheets, but principally the Daily Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard and The Times Saturday Magazine. He has also written for Vogue, Harper’s, Radio Times and GQ. He lives in London.

James Rebanks

James Rebanks is a farmer and writer based in the Lake District, where his family have lived and worked for over six hundred years. His No.1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd’s Life (Allen Lane, 2015), won the Lake District Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes, and has been translated into… Read more »

Helen Rebanks

Helen Rebanks was born and raised on a farm in the English Lake District. Her family have been farming for many generations. Her parents kept dairy cows, beef cattle and sheep and her grandfather bred pedigree Clydesdale horses. She has a first class honours degree in Fine Art and she worked in Oxford before becoming… Read more »

Gustav Parker Hibbett

Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet and essayist. They are originally from New Mexico and currently pursuing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. They are a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow and were selected as a runner-up for The Missouri Review’s 2022 Poem of the Year Award. Their work has appeared in Guernica, fourteen poems,… Read more »

Ben Martynoga

Ben Martynoga is a biologist and award-winning science writer. He has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and a PhD in neurobiology from the University of Edinburgh, and he has worked at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai and the National Institute for Medical Research and the Francis Crick Institute,… Read more »

Emma Chapman

Emma Chapman is a British writer, currently living in North Yorkshire. She was born in 1985 and grew up near Manchester. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. Since leaving university, she has lived in London, Western Australia and Indonesia. In 2013, her first novel,… Read more »

Simon Parker

Simon Parker is a British travel writer, author, filmmaker, public speaker and broadcast journalist; and has reported from over 100 countries in the past decade – from Bhutan and French Polynesia to Hawaii and Namibia, via Svalbard, Greenland and Saint Helena. In 2016, he sailed and cycled from China to London in 133 days, for… Read more »

Dean Browne

Dean Browne is from County Tipperary; he currently lives in Cork. He was a recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021, and his pamphlet, ‘Kitchens at Night’, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition, and published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Banshee, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Ireland… Read more »

Jenny Lau

Jenny Lau founded Celestial Peach as a multidisciplinary platform to tell and connect stories about the Chinese diaspora. She has since built a grassroots East and South East Asian community through her food events and has been featured in media such as Waitrose Magazine, Gastro Obscura, It’s Nice That and South China Morning Post. In… Read more »