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This month’s pulpit is written by Tom Holland, author of In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World. Bryan Appleyard’s most recent book, The Brain is Wider than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don’t Work in a Complex World, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Christena Appleyard is a freelance editor, writer and retail activist. Diana Athill is the author of Stet and Somewhere Towards the End, which won the Costa Book Award for biography in 2008. Ronald Blythe’s Aftermath: Selected Writings 1960–2010 is published by Black Dog Books. David Bodanis’s The Ten Commandments will be published by Bloomsbury next year. Sarah Bradford has recently published Queen Elizabeth: Her Life in Our Times for the Diamond Jubilee. She is working on a full-length biography of Queen Victoria. Oliver Bullough is author of Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus and of the forthcoming The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, both published by Penguin. Michael Burleigh won the 2012 Nonino International Master of His Time Prize. He is finishing a book on the global Cold War from 1945 to 1965. David Collard contributes to the forthcoming Auden in Context (CUP). Richard Cockett is the South-East Asia correspondent of The Economist. Tom Fleming is deputy editor of Literary Review. Simon Hammond is a freelance writer. Claire Harman’s latest book is Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Canongate). Simon Heffer’s next book, High Minds: The Victorian Pursuit of Perfection, will be published in 2013 by Random House. Tim Hilton has written books on PreRaphaelitism and Picasso among other subjects. His biography of Ruskin was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.

Philip Hoare is the author of Leviathan or, The Whale, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009. His latest project is an audio and visual rendition of MobyDick: www.mobydickbigread.com. Michael Holman is a former Africa editor of the Financial Times. His satire on international aid, the Last Orders at Harrods trilogy, is published by Polygon. Maya Jaggi’s cultural journalism gained her an honorary doctorate this year from the Open University. She is chair of the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. Ivan Juritz is writing a PhD on modernist theories of language. Joanna Kavenna’s latest novel, Come to the Edge, is published by Quercus. James Le Fanu writes a weekly medical column for the Daily Telegraph. His most recent book, Why Us?, was published by HarperCollins in 2009. Keith Lowe is the author of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, published by Viking. Simon J V Malloch teaches Roman history and Latin literature at the University of Nottingham. He is currently preparing an edition of Tacitus’s Annals XI for CUP. Jessica Mann is the author of twenty crime novels. Her polemical memoir, The Fifties Mystique, was recently published by Quartet. Laura Marsh works at the New York Review of Books. Rory Miller is Professor of Middle East & Mediterranean Studies at KCL. His book, Inglorious Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians since 1967, was published in 2011 by Hurst/Columbia University Press. Caroline Moorehead’s A Train in Winter: A Story of Friendship, Resistance and Survival has just been published in paperback.

Jeremy Noel-Tod is editing the new Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. He teaches at UEA, and runs a poetry blog, The Lyre. Richard O’Brien’s poetry has been published by Salt and tall-lighthouse. Jay Parini’s most recent novel isThe Passages of Herman Melville (Canongate). Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is co-curating a bicentenary exhibition about Robert Browning. Catherine Peters is the author of a short biography of Byron published in 2000. Lucy Popescu was Programme Director of English PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. Gulliver Ralston is Director of Music at Oxford’s University Church, and at the University of Roehampton. Leo Robson reviews fiction for the New Statesman and film for the TLS. Anne Sebba’s most recent book is That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson (Phoenix). Victor Sebestyen’s most recent book is Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. Charles Shaar Murray’s Crosstown Traffic, his award-winning study of Jimi Hendrix, will be republished by Canongate in November. Patrick Skene Catling has published twelve novels and nine books for children. Raymond Sokolov is a trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. His latest book, Steal the Menu, a memoir of forty years in food, will be published next year by Knopf. Norman Stone is Professor of History at Bilkent University, Ankara. His Turkey: A Short History came out in paperback this year. John Sutherland’s last two books are The Lives of the Novelists and The Dickens Dictionary. Gillian Tindall’s Three Houses, Many Lives was published earlier this year by Chatto. Irving Wardle was theatre critic of The Times from 1963 to 1989, and for the Independent on Sunday from 1989 to 1996. Adam Zamoyski’s books include 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow and Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna.

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