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Rupert Christiansen
Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King's College, Cambridge.
Charles Clover
Charles Clover is the Financial Times's China correspondent, and was previously its Moscow bureau chief.
Guy Deutscher
Born in 1969, Guy Deutscher read Maths at Cambridge before doing a PhD in Linguistics.
Philip Eade
Philip Eade was born in Shropshire and educated at Marlborough College and Bristol University where be read History. He has written for a variety of publications and for several years worked on the obituaries desk of The Daily Telegraph.
Richard Francis
Richard Francis writes both fiction and non-fiction. He taught American literature at Manchester University and then started the MA in Novel Writing there, with Michael Schmidt.
Charlotte Grimshaw has been named by the New Zealand Listener as one of the ten best New Zealand writers under forty. In 2000 she was awarded the Buddly Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for literature.
Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway is a former Bishop of Edinburgh and Gresham Professor of Divinity. Now a writer and broadcaster, he is the author of more than twenty books, including the best-selling Leaving Alexandria.
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Peter Jones
Dr Peter Jones graduated in Classics from Cambridge in 1964 and gained a PhD from London in 1971.
Sheena Joughin
Sheena Joughin is twice winner of the London Short Story Competition, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. Her first novel, THINGS TO DO INDOORS, was widely noticed and admired. Fay Weldon thought her 'a major discovery', Julie Burchill said 'I love this book'.
Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University, and one of the world's leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci. He has written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day.