Adam Andrusier
Adam Andrusier is a writer living in North West London. He is a professional dealer of rare and valuable autographs and his work provided the inspiration for Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man. His debut, Two Hitlers and a Marilyn is drawn on his childhood as an obsessive autograph collector. Image © Jack Ladenburg
Charles Delheim
Charles Dellheim has published extensively on European cultural history and modern British history. His work has focused on the role of Jews in modern culture. Image © Caroline Delheim
Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet, journalist and broadcaster. She lives in North London with her daughter. Image © Luigi Cazzanigana
Beverley Lester
Beverley Lester is an integrative psychotherapist in private practice. She teaches, mentors and facilitates groups, and supervises trainee and qualified therapists. Beverley has a particular interest in trans-generational trauma. We Were The Newmans is her first novel.
A. N. Wilson
A.N. Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and a former columnist for the London Evening Standard.
Claudia Kalb
Claudia Kalb is an award-winning journalist who blends biography, science, and firsthand reporting to illuminate the lives of great minds. Spark builds on a series of cover stories she wrote for National Geographic about the origins of genius. Her first book, Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities, was a New York Times bestseller.
Caroline Pick
Caroline Pick is an award-winning documentary film-maker and commissioning editor.
Katherine Pangonis
Katherine Pangonis is a historian specialising in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and Middle East. She has a particular interest in women and minorities, and bringing their voices and experiences back into the historical narrative. Her first book, Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule, was published in 2021. Image © Erin Floyd
Marc David Baer
Marc David Baer is professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of five books, including Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe, which won the Albert Hourani Prize.
Alex von Tunzelmann
Alex von Tunzelmann is a bestselling author, screenwriter, broadcaster, and media commentator. She lives in London. She read history at University College, Oxford, and afterwards worked as a researcher on books for authors including Jeremy Paxman, Felicity Lawrence, John Kay and Alison Wolf. Her books include the international bestselling Indian Summer. Image © Andrew Whitehurst
Bobby Duffy
Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute. He has worked across most public policy areas in his career of nearly 30 years in policy research and evaluation, including being seconded to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.
Dvorah Hacohen
Dvora Hacohen is a professor of modern history at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her central research interest has been transformations in social and cultural history. Her books include the prizewinning The Children of the Time: Youth Aliyah 1933–1948. She has received the Ben-Gurion Prize for her contributions to scholarship. Image © Sasson Tiram