Author type: Non-fiction

Polly Barton is a writer and literary translator from the Japanese. Her translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds (Fitzcarraldo, 2021), which won… Read more »

Amy Key is a writer based in London. She is the author of Arrangements in Blue (Jonathan Cape, 2023), chosen as a Book of the Year by The Sunday Times, Independent, Irish Times and Granta and shortlisted by Foyles for their Non Fiction Book of the Year 2023. She is also the author of two collections… Read more »

Shilpa Ravella is a gastroenterologist and author.  Her debut book, A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet & Disease was a best science pick by Nature and was shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.  Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Salon, Discover and USA Today, among other publications.

Elliot Rappaport has sailed as a captain in the United States maritime industry since 1992, involved primarily in the training of other mariners aboard an assortment of traditional sailing ships. He is currently a faculty member at Maine Maritime Academy and has also worked extensively at the SEA Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Elliot lives… Read more »

James is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford. He previously taught at Princeton and at SOAS, London. His A History of Algeria (Cambridge UP, 2017) was among the Financial Times’ best books of the year and co-winner of the BKFS Prize. He is currently completing… Read more »

Roderick Beaton was born and grew up in Edinburgh. After a first degree in English Literature from Cambridge, he specialised in Modern Greek studies, which became the subject of a long and distinguished academic career. He is the author of many books about Greece and Greek culture and, most recently, Europe: A New History (Allen… Read more »

Jenny is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work generally involves acts of close observation, whether it’s birdwatching, collecting screenshots, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and Sierra Magazine. Her New… Read more »

Professor Nicola Rollock is an academic, consultant and public speaker specialising in racial justice in education and the workplace. She is author of a transformative new book – The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival – published by Penguin Press in October 2022. In 2021 Nicola was appointed as Professor of Social Policy and… Read more »

Sally is a science and technology journalist in London. Her first book, We Are Electric, tells the fascinating story of nature’s electrical communication networks, both in our bodies and brains, and in the rest of the natural world. Published by Canongate in 2022, the book helps readers understand why biological electricity is so essential to… Read more »

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 »