Rachel Riley
Rachel Riley is the numbers expert on Channel 4’s long-running quiz show Countdown and a resident team member on the hit Channel 4 comedy show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Image © Alan Strutt
Tuvia Tenenbom
Tuvia Tenenbom, author of three Spiegel Bestsellers in Germany and four bestsellers in Israel, is a journalist and dramatist. He holds advanced degrees in both fine arts and science and is the founder of The Jewish Theater of New York.
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