Dr Joanna Nadin is a former government speechwriter and special adviser to the Prime Minister. Since leaving politics, she’s written more than 90 novels for children and adults, including the critically acclaimed The Queen of Bloody Everything, the Sunday Times bestselling Worst Class in the World series, and the Carnegie Medal-nominated Joe All Alone, which is now a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated…

John Connell is a multi-award winning author, journalist and documentary producer. His memoir The Cow Book (Granta Books) was a number one bestseller and won non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards. John is the co-founder and co-director of the Granard Booktown Festival in Granard County, Longford in the Irish midlands, and…

Marina Benjamin is a writer of personal essays, family memoir, creative non-fiction and, most recently, a trilogy of books exploring midlife experience in real time. The Middlepause and Insomnia were widely acclaimed at home and abroad, and have been translated into nine languages.  A Little Give, published in 2023, completes the series. Her essays have appeared in Granta, Aeon, the TLS and the Paris Review.…

Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India. His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, and is translated into 17 languages. 

Holly’s scripts have won awards from Slamdance Film Festival, WeScreenplay and Filmmatic.

Rebecca King is the author of the Ember Shadows trilogy, a magical middle-grade adventure series published with Hachette Children’s Group.

Miranda France is the prize-winning author of five books, encompassing memoir, fiction, non-fiction and reportage, as well as a translator from Spanish and a consultant editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Her work has won the Shiva Naipaul award for travel writing in The Spectator and been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook award. Her translation of Claudia Piñeiro’s Thursday Night Widows was…

Jennifer Kabat’s essays, included in The Best American Essays, are sweeping histories that interleave socialism, modernism and the natural world with her own longing for a way to understand our contemporary moment. She teaches at SVA in New York City and is a contributor to Granta magazine.  Jennifer’s twinned book-length essays The Eighth Moon and…