contributors

David Abulafia is author of The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (Allen Lane), which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2020. Georgina Adam is a journalist and author of two books about the art market and one about private museums. John Adamson’s books include The Princely Courts of Europe, 1500–1750 and The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I. Nigel Andrew writes the eclectic blog Nigeness: A Hedonic Resource. Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University and the author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (Polity, 2022). Iain Bamforth lives in Strasbourg. His book Zest: Essays on the Art of Living (Carcanet) appeared last year. Lucy Beresford is an actor, author, and sex and relationships broadcaster. Joseph Brooker is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Bloomsbury, 2020). Charlie Campbell is a literar y agent at Greyhound Literary. He is the author of two books (on scapegoats and amateur cricket captaincy) and runs the Authors Cricket Club. He worked at Literary Review from 2001 to 2004. Rupert Christiansen’s latest book is Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World (Faber). Norma Clarke is writing a sequel to her family memoir, Not Speaking . Robert Colls is the author of This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England , published by Oxford University Press. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Ian Critchley is a freelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines ’s Picture Per fect is published by Mount Orleans Press. His Histor y in the House: Teaching Statecraft at Christ Church, Oxford, 1524–1968 will be published by HarperCollins in June 2024.

Peter Davidson’s collection of essays Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World Baroque will be published in the winter by Manchester University Press. William Davies is a writer and library manager living in southeast England. Suleika Dawson’s The Secret Heart: John Le Carré – An Intimate Memoir is published by Mudlark. David Edgerton is the author The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 (Profile). Charles Foster is a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His latest book is Cry of the Wild (Doubleday, 2023). Dan Franklin got his first job in publishing in 1970. After working for Peter Owen, Harvill Press, Collins, Heinemann and Secker & Warburg, he was publisher of Jonathan Cape from 1993 to 2019. Emma Garman is a writer and critic living in Brighton. Jay Gilbert is a lecturer in linguistics at the Open University and lives in Oxfordshire. Tommy Gilhooly is a freelance journalist and was runner-up in the review category of the The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist ’s Award 2023.

Neil Gregor’s next book, The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany, will be published by Chicago University Press. Florence Hazrat is author of An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark and writes a weekly newsletter on Substack on punctuation in the wild called Mind the Gap. Dorian Lynskey is author of The Ministry of Truth and co-host of the Origin Stor y podcast. His next book, Ever ything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World , w i l l b e p u b l i s h e d i n Ap r i l 2 0 2 4 . Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. His next book, Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney, will be published by William Collins in 2024. Peter Moore’s latest book, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream, was published in June. Caroline Moorehead’s Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe was published last year. Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and author of If You Should Fail ( Viking, 2020). Simon Nixon is a freelance journalist. He was previously chief leader writer and a business columnist at The Times. Richard Overy’s next book, Why War?, will be published in May 2024. Raffaello Pantucci is a senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and the co-author of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire . Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Donald Rayfield has recently completed a histor y of the Crimean Tatars for Reaktion books. He is currently working on a new translation of Turgenev’s Smoke for NYRB.

4 Literary Review | november 2023