Fergal Keane is an award-winning journalist and author. Among the awards he has received are the Emmy, BAFTA, Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year and the George Orwell Prize for political writing. He was awarded an OBE for his services to television journalism. Fergal has written several critically acclaimed books. His work ‘Wounds’ on his family’s experience of the … Read More

Anthony Sattin is the author of books of history and travel, a journalist and broadcaster. Much of his work has focused on the Middle East and North Africa, including highly acclaimed books of history and travel and two biographies, A Winter on the Nile and Young Lawrence. His latest book, Nomads, The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World, described as ‘important, … Read More

Emmet Kirwan is an actor, playwright and theatre maker from Tallaght in Dublin. He studied at the Samuel Beckett Centre Trinity College Dublin. For over 20 years Emmet has worked in Irish and British Theatre, performing on many stages including Project Arts, The Abbey, The Gate, Donmar warehouse, The National Theatre and The Soho, as well as working with leading … Read More

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First … Read More

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green … Read More

Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and Brunel, … Read More

Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages, sold over two million copies and won multiple awards. Rundell is the author, for adults, of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, … Read More

Misha Glenny is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. During the revolutions in Eastern Europe of 1989 and the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Misha was the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent for which he won a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting. The award winning journalist and historian is also the author of … 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

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. She is the editor of four anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse and the award-winning The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, and The Glass Shore: Short Stories. Sinéad … Read More