contributors

This month’s pulpit is written by Kathryn Hughes, a historian and critic. Her book on the Victorian body will appear next year. Charles Allen’s The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43 was published in October last year (Haus). Christena Appleyard is working on a book about ageing. John Banville’s latest novel is The Blue Guitar. Kepler: A Novel was published in 1981. Houman Barekat is a London-based writer and critic, and founding editor of Review 31. Stephen Bates is the author of The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England’s Most Notorious Doctor (Duckworth 2014) about the murderer William Palmer. It was shortlisted for an Agatha Award as best true-crime book of the year in the US. Frank Brinkley will one day write a book about Dwarf Fortress. Jude Cook’s Byron Easy is published by William Heinemann. John Dugdale writes about books and media for The Guardian. Lindsay Duguid is a freelance writer. Laura Gallagher is a freelance writer and is working on a first novel of her own. John Gray’s latest book is The Soul of the Marionette (Penguin). Dominic Green’s forthcoming book, The Religious Revolution, is a history of 19thcentury spirituality. Matthew Green is the author of Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace, which documents the struggles of British soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. Ben Hamilton is a freelance writer and critic. Tanya Harrod is a design historian. Her most recent book is The Real Thing: Essays on Making in the Modern World (2015). She is writing a study of the painter Leonard Rosoman for the Royal Academy of Arts. Patrick Hennessey served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the author of The Junior Officers’ Reading Club and Kandak: Fighting the Afghans (both published by Penguin).

Kevin Jackson’s Kindle Single Coles to Jerusalem, a short travel book about going on pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Reverend Richard Coles, came out last December. 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, A Field Guide to Reality, will be published in July. Jonathan Keates’s most recent book is The Siege of Venice (Chatto & Windus). John Keay’s Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day is now out in paperback (William Collins). Sam Kitchener wrote almost none of his review in a cupboard. Adam LeBor’s latest thriller, The Washington Stratagem, is published by Head of Zeus. Jessica Mann’s next book is The Stroke of Death. Stoddard Martin’s books include Wagner to ‘The Waste Land’. He is at work on a collection of essays about dislocations of the 20th century. Allan Massie’s most recent book, Cold Winter in Bordeaux, is published by Quartet. Philip Maughan is assistant editor at the New Statesman and a freelance writer. Jonathan Meades’s Benbuilding, on the architecture of Italy in the fascist era, will be broadcast on BBC Four this spring. His exhibition ‘Ape Forgets Medication’ is at the Londonewcastle Project, 28 Redchurch Street, London E2 from 8 to 27 April. Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist specialising in China and East Asia. Caroline Moorehead’s latest book, A Village of Secrets, is out now in paperback. Jan Morris’s most recent book is the caprice Ciao, Carpaccio!

Tom Mustill directs wildlife documentaries and other films. He is best known for having a humpback whale fall on him. Richard Overy is currently writing a history of the Second World War. Lucy Popescu is editing A Country of Refuge, a collection of writings on asylum seekers from Britain and Ireland’s finest voices. David Renton is a barrister and author. Geoffrey Roberts is Professor of History at University College Cork and the author of Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. Imogen Russell Williams is an arts journalist and children’s literature critic. William St Clair is the author of Lord Elgin and the Marbles (1998) and a contributor to Cultural Heritage Ethics, edited by Constantine Sandis (2014). Charles Saumarez Smith is secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy and author of The Company of Artists (2012). Gavin Stamp is an architectural historian. His most recent book is Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott (Aurum). Tim Stanley is an associate fellow at the UCL Institute of the Americas and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. Jonathan Sumption is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. His most recent book is The Hundred Years War: Volume IV (Faber & Faber). John Sweeney is currently a roving reporter for Newsnight. His book North Korea Undercover is published by Corgi. Donald Trelford was deputy to David Astor at The Observer from 1969 to 1975, then succeeded him as editor. Alex von Tunzelmann is the author of Indian Summer and Red Heat. Her next book, Blood & Sand: Suez, Hungary & the Crisis that Changed the World, will be published this year (Simon & Schuster). Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. His latest book is Any Other Business (Elliott & Thompson). Sara Wheeler’s books include The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic (Vintage).

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