Antony Beevor is the author of Crete, (Runciman Prize) Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson, Wolfson and Hawthornden Prizes); Berlin: the Downfall (Longman-History Today Trustees’ Award); The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia); D-Day (RUSI Westminster Medal, Prix Henry Malherbe); The Second World War; Ardennes 1944 (shortlist Prix Médicis) for which the Belgian government made him Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Couronne, and … Read More

UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was born and grew up in West Yorkshire, England. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and PEN Prize for Translation. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including Magnetic Field: the Marsden Poems, and acclaimed medieval translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight … Read More

MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays.  Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the Maddaddam trilogy.  Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.  … Read More

Philippe Sands KC is Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College London Faculty of Laws and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a practising barrister at 11 King’s Bench Walk (11KBW) and appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals. He sits … Read More

Ruby began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company.  She went on to a hugely successful career with BBC television as an interviewer and comedian, and has written, and edited numerous scripts for TV and film including Absolutely Fabulous. Ruby then turned her attention to the study of psychotherapy and neuroscience, graduating from Oxford University in 2013 with a Master’s degree … Read More

Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author … Read More