contributors

Nigel Andrew’s book on church monuments, The Mother of Beauty, is nearing completion. Neil Armstrong is a journalist. Daniya Baiguzhayeva is studying English literature at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published in Menacing Hedge, BAIT and transition. Paul Bailey’s first novel, At the Jerusalem, will be reissued in the autumn with an introduction by Colm Tóibín. Stephen Bates was a senior correspondent for The Guardian for twenty-two years and played cricket for the paper too. Christopher Bray is a film critic and the author of 1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born. Piers Brendon’s most recent book is Churchill’s Bestiary: His Life Through Animals (Michael O’Mara Books). Nigel Buckley is librarian at the Alpine Club. Michael Burleigh is Engelsberg Chair of History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS. Fergus Butler-Gallie is an author and a clergyman. Helen Bynum writes from deep in the Suffolk countryside about people, plants, health and disease. Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Oxford. Norma Clarke is Emeritus Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University. Her latest book is a family memoir, Not Speaking. Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester. The Idea of The Brain: A History will be published next year (Profile). Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Adam Douglas is a rare bookseller at Peter Harrington. His study of the werewolf legend, The Beast Within, is widely (if not quite freely) available on the secondhand market.

Michael Eaude is the author of Sails and Winds (Signal), a cultural and political history of Valencia. Eleanor Fitzsimons is the author of Wilde’s Women (Duckworth Overlook). Her next book, The Life and Loves of E Nesbit, will be published in October. Laura Freeman is a freelance art critic. Her first book, The Reading Cure, was published last year. She is now writing a biography of Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists. Matt Rowland Hill is writing a memoir. Paul Johnson is director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. John Keay’s Midnight’s Descendants: South India from Partition to the Present Day was published in 2014 (William Collins). Jake Kerridge is a writer and reviewer living in London. Katie Da Cunha Lewin is a writer, researcher and tutor based in London. She has a PhD in literature and is the co-editor of Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury). Allan Massie is the author of The Bordeaux Quartet. Raffaello Pantucci is director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute and the author of We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists. Jay Parini is the author of New and Collected Poems: 1975–2015. His next book, Borges and Me, a memoir of his travels in the Highlands of Scotland with Jorge Luis Borges in 1971, will be published next summer (Canongate). Helen Pearson is an author and an editor at Nature.

Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. David Pryce-Jones has completed a new book, Signatures, which will be published next year. Charlie Pye-Smith’s most recent book is Land of Plenty: A Journey Through the Fields & Foods of Modern Britain. Samuel Reilly is editorial assistant at Apollo. His writing on art has appeared in Apollo, Frieze and 1843. Levi Roach is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Æthelred the Unready (Yale). Patrick Scrivenor served in the armed forces for four years as an infantry officer and is co-author of The Atlas of the Second World War. Thomas Shippey is a former professor of medieval literature, now retired. His most recent book is Laughing Shall I Die: Lives & Deaths of the Great Vikings (Reaktion). He is now working on a study of Norse myths and their reuse in modern fantasy fiction. Zeb Soanes is a broadcaster and children’s author. His latest book, Gaspard Best in Show, is published this month (Graffeg). D J Taylor’s Lost Girls: Love, War & Literature 1939–51 will be published next month (Constable) and On Nineteen EightyFour: A Biography will be published in October (Abrams Press). Salley Vickers’s latest novel, Grandmothers, will be published in November (Viking). Stephen Walsh is the author of biographies of Stravinsky and Debussy. He is currently working on a history of Romantic music. Tim Whitmarsh is A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. His books include Battling the Gods (2015) and Dirty Love (2018). He is currently working on a book about the earliest Christians. James Womack is a poet and translator. His book of versions of Manuel Vilas’s poetry, Heaven, will be published in February next year (Carcanet). Joshua Young is about to do an MPhil in Romantic literature at Cambridge.

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