John Vaillant’s first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Outside, National Geographic and Men’s Journal, among other publications. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and children.

Isabella Tree is an award-winning writer and conservationist who lives with her husband, Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex. She is author of six non-fiction books, including the 2018 Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award-winning book Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm that was voted in the top ten science books … Read More

British contemporary artist Es Devlin views an audience as a temporary society and invites public participation in communal choral works. Her canvas ranges from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern, V&A, Serpentine, Imperial War Museum and the Lincoln Centre, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Olympic … Read More

DAWN O’PORTER lives in Los Angeles with her husband Chris, her two boys Art and Valentine, cats Myrtle and Boo. Dawn is the bestselling author of the novels The Cows and the Richard and Judy Book Club pick So Lucky, and her non-fiction title Life in Pieces was also a Sunday Times bestseller. Dawn started out in TV production but … Read More

David Wallace-Wells is a writer for New York Times Opinion, a columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and the author of the international best-seller The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, which the Guardian called “an epoch-defining book” and the Washington Post called “the Silent Spring of our time.” He was previously deputy editor of New York Magazine and, before … Read More

Charlie Burrell is chair of Foundation Conservation Carpathia, the biggest rewilding project in Europe, and the White Stork Project. He is co-founder of Rewilding Britain, and sits on the board of the Arcadia Fund and the oversight committee for the Endangered Landscapes Programme. He also chairs rePlanet Wildlife and Nattergal Ltd, sister companies involved in nature restoration. He is co-author, … Read More

Cerys Matthews is a songwriter, author and radio programmer. In 2022 her BBC Radio 4 music show, ‘ADD TO PLAYLIST’,  won the Prix Italia and Prix Europa. On BBC Radio 2 , she programmes and hosts the Blues Show , winning  UK Blues broadcaster of the year  2022 and 2023 and her cross-genre/cross-topic radio show is the most listened to show on BBC … Read More

Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian clarinettist, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Twice awarded ‘Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year’ at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards (UK), Arun leads his own ensembles, touring nationally and internationally. He has released five albums on camoci records: Northern Namaste, Primal Odyssey, A South Asian Suite, but where are you really from? , and Seclused in Light. He … Read More

Annie Macmanus is an internationally renowned broadcaster, author, DJ, events curator and more. Her debut Sunday Times Bestseller novel Mother Mother was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and her writing has featured in the Guardian, Irish Times and The Independent and regularly publishes articles via her own blog. She produces her own podcast, ‘Changes with Annie Macmanus’, where she … Read More

Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.