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Anita Sethi is an award-winning journalist, writer and critic who has written for publications including The Guardian and Observer, Sunday Times, Telegraph, i paper, Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The Pool, New Statesman and appeared on BBC radio. She has interviewed many writers, musicians, artists and politicians, and appeared at festivals......
Jung Chang is the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday); and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15......
Platform Seven is Louise Doughty’s ninth novel. Her most recent book was Black Water, which was published in 2016 to critical acclaim in the UK and US, where it was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her Top......
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize; The Children of Jocasta, a feminist retelling of the Oedipus and Antigone stories; and a non-fiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide......
Konnie Huq is best known for being the longest serving member of the Blue Peter team (she finally managed to beat Val Singelton’s record) and has recently started presenting The Tube on Channel 4 Radio. She has an Economics degree from Cambridge and her extensive television......
Howard Jacobson is the author of a number of award-winning fiction and non-fiction novels, including The Finkler Question (2010) which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2010. He has taught and lectured at a number of institutions, including the University of Sydney and......
Lara Maiklem moved from her family’s farm to London in the 1990s and has been mudlarking along the River Thames for over fifteen years. Known as the ‘London Mudlark’, she has a combined social media audience of over 83,000 followers and has been featured in......
Emma Smith was born in Leeds and went ‘unexpectedly’ to the University of Oxford, where today she is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College. She often works with actors and directors as a production advisor at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and......