Josh Glancy is News Review editor at The Sunday Times. Prior to this he was special correspondent for the paper, reporting from across Britain and the world. Before that he was the paper’s Washington bureau chief and spent five years reporting from across most of America, but never Alaska or the Dakotas. He’s also a columnist for The Jewish News.

Lavie Tidhar was born just ten miles from Armageddon and grew up on a kibbutz in northern Israel. He has since made his home in London, where he is a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond University. He is a columnist for the Washington Post. Image © Kevin Nixon, Future Publishing

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is an award-winning novelist based in Israel. She has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement and is an award-winning screenwriter. She is the author of One Night, Markovitch, Waking Lions, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize and Liar, which are all published by Pushkin Press. Image © Tal Shahar