Author type: Non-fiction

Dr Camilla Nord is a neuroscientist at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, whose expertise is the brain basis of mental health. Her goal is to discover how cognitive neuroscience can be translated into new clinical treatments and prevention techniques, particularly for mental health conditions or symptoms falling at the intersection of… Read more »

Lucy Ash presents radio and TV documentaries for BBC Current Affairs. She began her career in Moscow just as the Soviet Union was falling apart and she has followed developments there ever since. Driven by a passion for justice and human rights, she focuses on characters at the margins of society and conflicts which have… Read more »

Samira Ahmed is an award winning journalist, broadcaster and writer who specialises in the intersection of popular culture, history, politics and social change. She presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC1 and has worked as an anchor and correspondent for Channel 4 News, where she won the Stonewall Broadcast of the Year award,… Read more »

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was a legendary film director, writer, artist, gardener, set designer, and gay rights activist. Jarman started out in set design, working as a production designer on ‘The Devils’, directed by Ken Russell and made his first foray into film with a number of experimental super 8 mm shorts. His first feature was… Read more »

Catherine reports on Russia for the Washington Post. She worked from 2007-2013 as the Moscow Correspondent for the Financial Times. She has previously reported on Russia for the Moscow Times and Business Week. In 2009, she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the year at the British Press Awards and served as an investigative correspondent for Reuters…. Read more »

Jonathan is an independent scientist and consultant to organizations such as the UN Environment Programme and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) on the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. Originally trained in biology and environmental science, he is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent…. Read more »

Eloise Rickman is a writer and parent educator. Her most recent book It’s Not Fair: why it’s time for a grown-up conversation about how adults treat children (June 2024, Scribe) offers a practical manifesto for children’s liberation. It’s Not Fair argues that children’s resistance and struggle for equality has been largely ignored by the wider… Read more »

Paul is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is the author of  Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (OUP, 2010), which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, and The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (University of… Read more »

Charlotte Lydia Riley teaches history at the University of Southampton. Her first book, Imperial Island (Bodley Head, 2023), tells an alternative history of Britain from the Second World War to the present day. The book traces the ways that empire and decolonisation have left their mark on British history, society, politics and culture, and tells the story of… Read more »

Emma is a Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Oxford Faculty of English and a Fellow of Hertford College. Her first trade book, This is Shakespeare (Pelican, 2019), attracted praise from James Shapiro and Hilary Mantel, among others, and was a Times Book of the Year 2019. Alex Preston called it “the best introduction to… Read more »