contributors

This month’s pulpit is written by Paul Lay. He is the editor of History Today. Jonathan Barnes’s latest novel, Cannonbridge, was published recently by Solaris. Jonathan Beckman has just won the Somerset Maugham Award for How to Ruin a Queen. David Bodanis is currently writing a book on Einstein’s greatest mistake. Frank Brinkley is chief editorial assistant of Literary Review. Lindy Burleigh is a freelance reviewer. David Cesarani’s Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933–1949 will be published by Macmillan this autumn. Andrew Crumey is a novelist and theoretical physicist who lectures at Northumbria University. His most recent book is The Secret Knowledge (Dedalus). Samantha Ellis’s reading memoir How to Be a Heroine is published by Vintage and her play Cling to Me like Ivy is published by Nick Hern Books. Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of York. He has written extensively on Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, including, most recently, Napoleon (Quercus) and Waterloo (OUP). Miranda France’s most recent novel is The Day before the Fire (Chatto & Windus). She has also recently translated Liliana Heker’s selected stories Please Talk To Me (Yale) with Alberto Manguel. Laura Gallagher is a freelance writer. Henry Gee is a senior editor of Nature. His book The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution is out in paperback (University of Chicago Press). John Gray’s most recent book is The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom (Penguin). Dominic Green teaches political science at Boston College. His forthcoming book, The Religious Revolution, is a history of 19thcentury spirituality. Matthew Green worked as a correspondent in Pakistan from 2010 to 2013. His new book, Aftershock, about British soldiers and posttraumatic stress disorder, is published in October.

Philip Hoare’s The Sea Inside is published by Fourth Estate. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton. He is neither noble nor savage. Alan Judd’s latest espionage novel, Inside Enemy, is published by Simon & Schuster. Jonathan Keates’s most recent book is The Siege of Venice (Chatto & Windus). John Keay is the author of Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day. The paperback edition will be published by William Collins in August. Cosmo Landesman is the dating correspondent of the Sunday Times. Andy Martin’s Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child & the Making of Make Me will be published later this year by Penguin Random House. Allan Massie’s most recent book, Cold Winter in Bordeaux, is published by Quartet. Luke Maxted is a writer and Treasury official. Jonathan Meades’s An Encyclopaedia of Myself won the Spears Award for Memoir and has been shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. He is preparing a film on the architecture of Fascist Italy. Jonathan Mirsky is hard to thrill. He finds China interesting and depressing but never thrilling. Rory Muir’s Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814 was published in 2013. The second volume, Wellington: Waterloo & the Fortunes of Peace, 1814–1852, was published last month by Yale University Press. Lucy Popescu is the author of The Good Tourist (Arcadia). James Purdon is a research fellow in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. His first book, Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, & the State, will be published by OUP later this year.

Frederic Raphael’s first volume of autobiography, Going Up: A Journey from the Suburbs, is published next month (Robson Press). Donald Rayfield is the author of Stalin and his Hangmen and Edge of Empires (a history of Georgia), as well as a translator of Russian and Georgian literature. Anna Reid’s Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 is published by Bloomsbury. An updated edition of her Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine has just been published (W&N). Oscar Rickett is a journalist, occasional actor and the author of two short plays. Jane Ridley’s latest book is a brief life of Queen Victoria in the Penguin Monarchs series. Dominic Sandbrook’s The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination will be published by Allen Lane in October. Yasmine Seale is a doctoral student at St John’s College, Oxford. Elif Shafak is the writer of nine novels, including The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and, most recently, The Architect’s Apprentice. Jacob Silverman is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media & the Price of Constant Connection (Harper). Tim Stanley is an associate fellow at the UCL Institute of the Americas and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. John Sutherland’s most recent books include Jumbo and How to Be Well Read. Gillian Tindall’s most recent book is Three Houses, Many Lives. She is currently writing about the route of Crossrail. Isabella Tree’s latest book, The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu, is published by Eland. Kaite Welsh is a freelance art critic and journalist. Patrick Wilcken is the author of Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821 and Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory, published by Bloomsbury. Philip Womack’s fourth novel, The King’s Shadow, is out now.

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