contributors

Georgina Adam’s The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum will be published in September by Lund Humphries. Aida Amoako is a freelance writer. Nigel Andrew has recently completed a short book on butterflies. Abhimanyu Arni is a writer and historian of British imperialism in India. Laurel Berger is a writer and translator in Washington, DC. Soumya Bhattacharya is the author of six books, the latest being the novel Thirteen Kinds of Love (HarperCollins India). Robert Bickers is professor of history at the University of Bristol. One of his filing cabinets is stuffed with files containing the materials used in his most recent book, China Bound: John Swire & Sons and its World, 1816–1980 (Bloomsbury). Michael Burleigh’s Day of the Assassins was published by Picador in May. He is a senior fellow at LSE IDEAS. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. Rupert Christiansen’s book about the Ballets Russes phenomenon will be published by Faber next year. Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life & Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. She is professor of contemporary poetry at the University of Huddersfield. Norma Clarke is writing a sequel to her family memoir, Not Speaking. Peter Conrad’s The Mysteries of Cinema: Movies & Imagination was published in April (Thames & Hudson). Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Amanda Craig’s ninth novel, The Golden Rule, set in Cornwall, was longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize. Andrew Crumey lectures at Northumbria University. His most recent book is The Great Chain of Unbeing. Luke Daly-Groves is a historian and author of Hitler’s Death: The Case Against Conspiracy.

Charles Darwent’s critical biography Josef Albers: Life & Work came out in 2018. His next book, on Atelier 17 in New York, will be published this year (Thames & Hudson). Peter Davidson is senior research fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. The Lighted Window: Evening Walks Remembered will be published by Bodleian Editions in the autumn. Sarah Dunant has written five novels set in Renaissance Italy, with a sixth, on Isabella d’Este, on the way. Daisy Dunn is the author of In the Shadow of Vesuvius and Catullus’ Bedspread. Her new book, Not Far from Brideshead, will be published next spring. Michael Eaude’s most recent book is Sails and Winds, a cultural and political history of Valencia. Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s latest book is Out of Our Minds. Miranda France is a writer, journalist and translator from Spanish. Currently she is a Royal Literary Fund fellow working in the NHS. David Gelber works at Literary Review. Jay Gilbert teaches medieval English at the University of Oxford and is a freelance writer and journalist. David Gilmour’s most recent book is The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition & Experience. Melissa J Gismondi is an award-winning writer and broadcaster based in Toronto. Patrick Graney is a freelance writer based in London. Tim Hornyak is the author of Loving the Machine: The Art & Science of Japanese Robots. Joanna Kavenna’s most recent novel is Zed. Anna Keay is director of the Landmark Trust. Her next book, Interregnum, will be published in 2022. Mary Kenny’s The Way We Were: Catholic Ireland since 1922 will be published next year.

Alexander Larman’s most recent book, The Crown in Crisis, is a revisionist account of the 1936 abdication crisis. Mathew Lyons is a freelance writer and historian. He is currently working on a book about the dissolution of the monasteries. Alberto Manguel is the director of the Centro de Estudos da História da Leitura (CEHL) in Lisbon, Portugal. Bijan Omrani is the editor of the Asian Affairs Journal. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Gulliver Ralston is director of music at the University of Roehampton. Donald Rayfield’s expanded biography, Anton Chekhov: A Life, will be published by Garnett Press in October. Jane Ridley’s George V: Never a Dull Moment will be published by Chatto in November. Benjamin Riley is managing editor of The New Criterion. Timothy W Ryback is director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague and author of Hitler’s Private Library and Hitler’s First Victims. Martin Salisbury is professor of illustration at Cambridge School of Art at ARU. His books include The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920–1970 (Thames & Hudson). Alan Taylor is the author of Appointment in Arezzo, a memoir of Muriel Spark, and the series editor of her collected novels. Adrian Tinniswood’s Noble Ambitions: The Fall & Rise of the Post-War Country House will be published by Jonathan Cape in October. Richard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. Tom Williams is a freelance writer. Frances Wilson’s most recent book, Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence, was published in May by Bloomsbury. William Wootten’s poetry pamphlet Looking at the Horsemen (New Walk) and his annotated selection of de la Mare’s poems, Reading Walter de la Mare (Faber), have both been recently published.

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