Selma Dabbagh is a British-Palestinian writer and lawyer. Selma’s debut novel Out of It (Bloomsbury,) is set between Gaza, London and the Gulf. Her fiction includes short stories, radio plays as well as productions for stage and screen including working on the script for Oscar shortlisted film, Palestine 36. She is the editor of We Wrote In Symbols; Love and … Read More

Peter Pomeranzev is the author, most recently, of How to Win an Information War, the Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler, the Sunday Times 2025 World Affairs Book of the Year. He is the winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the European Press Prize and Gordon Burns Prizes. His work focuses on contemporary propaganda, especially Russian, and how to beat it.

Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist, poet and essayist living in County Galway. He is the author of ten books, including the Booker Prize-nominated novel The Wake. His latest book is Against The Machine, a New York Times bestseller.

Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975, Ireland) is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. He is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound and has published volumes of poetry, essays, a memoir and theology. 2025 saw the publication of the poetry collection Kitchen Hymns and the anthology 44 Poems on Being with Each Other; A Poetry Unbound … Read More

Mary Gaitskill was born in Lexington KY and grew up in the Detroit area of Michigan. She left home at the age of 16 eventually traveling to Canada where she lived illegally with a fake ID. At 19 she realized that if she wanted to become a writer she needed more education and so returned to America to attend community … Read More

Brian Dillon is an Irish writer based in London. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence, Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. … Read More

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He … Read More

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.  He is the author of fifteen books, including Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival; Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics; The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve; The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the … Read More

Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Notable acting roles include his award-winning performance in Wilde, his iconic projects with Hugh Laurie such as A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder, and his memorable turns in blockbuster projects V for Vendetta, the Sherlock … Read More