Pete Brown was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and still occasionally gets dewy-eyed about northern bitter. Since 1991, he has worked in London in various marketing roles, the best of which have involved advertising beer. He runs his own marketing consultancy, writes regularly for the brewing industry trade press, and appears on TV every now… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
Chris Bryant
Sir Chris Bryant has been the Member of Parliament for Rhondda since 2001. He is the Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Europe and Latin America in the last Labour… Read more »
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 »