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This month’s pulpit is written by John Harwood. His most recent book is The Asylum ( Jonathan Cape). Jonathan Barnes’s latest novel, Cannonbridge, was published last month by Solaris. Frank Brinkley is Literary Review’s chief editorial assistant. Stephen Cave is a philosopher, writer and diplomat. His latest book is Immortality. Robert Chandler is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics). Anne de Courcy’s books include The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj. Her most recent book is Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916. Saul David is the author of All the King’s Men: The British Redcoat in the Age of Horse & Musket. His Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 & the Raid on Entebbe Airport will be published in July. Lesley Downer’s books on Japan include Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, The Last Concubine and The Samurai’s Daughter, now out in paperback. Samantha Ellis’s How to Be a Heroine is published by Vintage. Suzi Feay is chair of the judging panel for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Victoria Glendinning’s next book will be a novel about nuns. Lyndall Gordon’s memoir, Divided Lives (Virago), is published this month in paperback. Neil Gregor is Professor of History at the University of Southampton. Andrew Greig and Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band are currently writing a double-headed memoir of the Sixties. John Gribbin is Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. His latest book, Before the Big Bang, is available as a Kindle Single. Simon Hammond is a PhD researcher at University College, London. Tom Holland is the author of In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire & the End of the Ancient World. Paul Johnson has written over fifty books. He is a former editor of the New Statesman.

Joanna Kavenna is a novelist, essayist and travel writer. Her next book will be A Field Guide to Reality. Mary Kenny’s most recent book is a ‘selective memoir’, Something of Myself – and Others (Liberties Press), in which she explains her role in the notorious Irish ‘condom train’ of 1971. James Kidd is a freelance writer and host of the literary podcast thiswritinglife.co.uk. Sam Kitchener is struggling with a first novel of his own. Robin Lane Fox is author of Alexander The Great (Penguin). Augustine: Convert & Confessor will be published in September. Jeremy Lewis is currently at work on a biography of David Astor. Toby Lichtig is a freelance writer, critic and fiction in translation editor of the TLS. Jessica Mann’s 1981 study of women crime writers, Deadlier than the Male, has recently been republished as an ebook. Andy Martin is currently at work on Reacher 20, a book about Lee Child. Allan Massie’s most recent book, Cold Winter in Bordeaux, is published by Quartet. Owen Matthews is a contributing editor at Newsweek magazine. His latest ebook, Thinking with the Blood: A Journey through Ukraine’s Revolution, is available on Amazon. Patrick McGuinness’s memoir, Other People’s Countries, won the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize. Richard Miles is Chair of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney and author of Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Penguin). Jonathan Mirsky is a sceptical follower of international affairs. Lucy Moore’s Liberty: The Lives & Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France came out in 2006. David Motadel is the author of Islam and Nazi Germany’s War (Harvard University Press).

Nicolas Niarchos is on the editorial staff of the New Yorker. Seamus Perry is a Fellow of Balliol College and is currently chair of the English Faculty at Oxford. Lucy Popescu is the author of The Good Tourist (Arcadia). Donald Rayfield’s translation of Kvachi by Mikheil Javakhishvili was published by Dalkey Archive in January. An expanded Russian edition of his history of Georgia, Edge of Empires, will be published by OGI in Moscow later this year. Jonathan Rée is a freelance philosopher and historian. Adam Roberts wrote The Wonga Coup (Profile), the true story of a failed British mercenary attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004. He is now The Economist ’s South Asia bureau chief, based in Delhi. Philip Roscoe is Reader in Management at the School of Management, University of St Andrews. A Richer Life will be published by Penguin in May 2015. Norman Stone is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara and author of Turkey: A Short History (Thames & Hudson). John Sweeney is being made redundant from the BBC. North Korea Undercover is out in paperback (Corgi). Colin Tudge is co-founder of the Campaign for Real Farming. His latest book is Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice. Alwyn WTurner is the author of Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s (Aurum). Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. His latest book is Any Other Business (Elliott & Thompson). Francesca Wade is a freelance writer and assistant editor of the White Review. David Wheatley is the author of Contemporary British Poetry (Palgrave). Tim Whitmarsh is A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. His new book, Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, will be out in January 2016 (Faber & Faber).

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