Authors Represented — Past and Present

Chris Greenhalgh*

Chris Greenhalgh’s first novel, COCO & IGOR, is about a passionate affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in 1920. It has been translated into seven languages. Chris also adapted his novel for the screen; Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky was chosen to close the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

Andrew Beatty*

Andrew Beatty is senior lecturer in anthropology at Brunel University.

His latest book is A SHADOW FALLS IN THE HEART OF JAVA, published by Faber & Faber on 2 April 2009. This is an eyewitness account of the speedy fracturing of a harmonious multi-religious society, following the island’s infiltration by radical Islamists.

Emma Donoghue*

Emma Donoghue’s writing never fails to surprise, ranging between contemporary and historical novels, short stories, plays, literary history and biography. Unlike many other writers, she adroitly avoids being trammelled into any particular pathway.

Andrew Dalby*

Andrew Dalby is a man of great learning and many talents. He writes mainly on classical history, food history, linguistics and is also an accomplished translator.

Helena Whitbread*

Helena Whitbread is writing a biography of Anne Lister, the nineteenth-century lesbian diarist from Yorkshire, whom she has been studying for more than two decades.

Ed Husain*

Ed Husain is a joint founder and co-director of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think-tank.

For almost five years during the 1990s, Ed was active in three major Islamist organizations in London, including Hizb-ut-Tahrir. His best-selling memoir, THE ISLAMIST, is an account of his experiences during this period and his ultimate rejection of Islamist fundamentalism.

Peter Barham*

Peter Barham is Professor of Physics at Bristol University in England and Professor of Molecular Gastronomy at the Royal Danish Veterinary University, Copenhagen. He also has a visiting position with the Avian Demography Unit of the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he works on penguin conservation.

Simon Unwin*

Simon Unwin was Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, and is known by students all over the world for his famous Notebooks.

His architectural and cultural theory of thresholds, DOORWAY: AN ARCHITECTURE NOTEBOOK, has universal applicability and significance.

Richard Hobday*

Richard Hobday, MSc, PhD is a member of the British Register of Complimentary Practitioners and has studied traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese exercise systems in China.

Joyce Westrip*

Joyce Westrip was born in southern India in 1929, moved to England in 1947 and now lives in Perth, Western Australia. Fascinated by Indian history and culture, she is a regular visitor to the subcontinent and a collector of rare Indian cookbooks.

Tom Jaine*

Tom Jaine could be a reincarnation of the Renaissance polymath and humanist Leon Battista Alberti. He is a sometime baker, journalist, food critic, author, editor of the Good Food Guide and owner of the famous Carved Angel restaurant in Dartmouth.

Andrew Duncan

Andrew Duncan is a celebrated historian and expert on London. He has walked and guided popular tours in the capital for many years, always combining a love of places with a professional interest in their history.

Robert Baldock*

Robert Baldock is a writer and publisher. He was raised in Africa, educated in Britain and has a PhD in modern history and politics. He is now Managing Director and Editorial Director (Humanities) of Yale University Press in London. His interest in Pablo Casals was first piqued when he started to study the cello at the age of twelve.

Maggie Black*

Author information coming soon.

Sri Owen

Sri Owen is a highly respected cook, a popular lecturer and the author of several award-winning cookbooks, including THE RICE BOOK (winner of the 1993 André Simon Award) and INDONESIAN REGIONAL FOOD AND COOKERY (awarded The Langhe Ceretto Prize for Best Recipe Book and shortlisted for a Julia Child Award) .

Richard Hosking*

Author information coming soon.

Jehanne Wake

Jehanne Wake is a historian with a special interest in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to her work on Kleinwort Benson, her books include a short biography of Florence Nightingale; Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Unconventional Daughter (1988); and the forthcoming Sisters of Fortune: The First American Heiresses to Take Europe by Storm (Chatto & Windus, August 2010).

Catherine Beale*

Catherine Beale has worked as a writer and historian since 1995. She has written for Garden History, Country Life, Hortus and the Hereford Times, conducted historical and garden tours, and given talks to various groups.

Rena Salaman*

Rena Salaman was born and grew up in Athens. Her childhood gave her an enthusiasm for the traditions of her native Greece and her passion for Greek food and cooking continued.

Lisa Chaney

Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The Sunday Times, The Spectator and The Guardian.

Stuart Clark

Stuart Clark is one of the UK’s most widely read astronomy journalists. His career is devoted to presenting the complex world of astronomy to the general public. Stuart holds a first class honours degree and a PhD in astrophysics.

Pamela Davidson*

Pamela Davidson is Professor of Russian at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Her research interests include the links between religion and literature (particularly extensive in Russia) and Russian literature of the Silver Age.

Laura Mason*

Laura Mason was raised on a farm in Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire. A highly respected food historian, her books include Traditional Foods of Britain: An Inventory, Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: The Prehistory of Sweets, and Food and the Rites of Passage (all published by Prospect Books). She is also a British co-ordinator of the Slow Food movement.

Neil Jackson*

Neil Jackson is an architect and architectural historian and is a Professor at the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture.

At present, Neil is engaged in research on the architectural dialogue between Japan and the West.

Jonathan Stephenson*

Jonathan Stephenson is an accomplished painter who has contributed to The Artist and The Artist and Illustrator’s Magazine, among other publications. He is also the author of PAINT WITH THE IMPRESSIONISTS and PAINT WITH THE WATERCOLOUR MASTERS.

Audrey Linkman

Author information coming soon.

Anna Beer

Anna Beer is a biographer with a particular interest in the relationship between literature, politics and history. She combines her writing career with her work as a lecturer at Kellogg College (Oxford University). Her books include Bess: The Life of Lady Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter (2003) and Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot (2008).

Roland Vernon

Roland Vernon was born in 1961 and spent much of his early life in continental Europe and central Africa.
Until recently he has concentrated on non-fiction, writing a series of children’s books on composers and a biography of the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

J. P. McEvoy

J.P. McEvoy has a MS in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the University of London. In the USA, he was an associate at the RCA Research Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. For the following 15 years he worked in solid state physics as a research scientist in the USA, Switzerland and Britain.

Alex Danchev

Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at Nottingham University. His books include Oliver Franks: Founding Father (1993), The Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), Georges Braque: A Life (Penguin, 2007), On Art and War and Terror (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and a forthcoming biography of Paul Cezanne.

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