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Mark Forsyth
Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and was followed by The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence.
Anna Wharton
Hayley Campbell
Hayley Campbell has written for BuzzFeed, WIRED, Empire, VICE/VICE Sports, New Statesman, McSweeney’s, The Comics Journal, The Guardian, GQ, Esquire, and the Observer Magazine.
Carlos Magdalena
Carlos Magdalena is Botanical Horticulturist in the Tropical Nursery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an international lecturer, and Chairman of the International Waterlily & Water Gardens Society.
Ferdie Addis
Ferdinand Addis read classics at Oxford, before embarking on a career as a journalist and author. Following three short books for Michael O'Mara, Rome: Eternal City is his first full-length work of non-fiction. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Rosie Birkett
Rosie Birkett is a food writer, stylist and broadcaster with over a decade of experience in food media.
Ed Griffiths
Ed Griffiths worked in publishing in London for ten years before leaving in 2014 to follow his dream to live in Tokyo, having fallen in love with the country on his first visit in 2007.
Nell Frizzell
Nell Frizzell has written for The Guardian, VICE, The Telegraph, Elle, Grazia, The Pool, The Observer, Buzzfeed, Refinery29, Red, Time Out and is a Vogue columnist.
Caroline Craig
Caroline Craig read Anthropology at University, before working at publishers Random House and Penguin in London.