Abrams, Nathan
Abrams is a professor of film at Bangor University in Wales and has written extensively on film and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author The New Jew in Film (2012), Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (2018) and, with Robert Kolker, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (2019).
Acton (Estate), Harold
Sir Harold Acton CBE was a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, history, biography, memoir, and countless other literary genres. He is well known for his book Memoirs of an Aesthete.
Aickman (Estate), Robert
Aickman was a classic Edwardian writer of ghost stories and television productions. He is a World Fantasy Award winner of 1975, and was awarded the British Fantasy Award in 1981. 2014 was the Robert Aickman Centenary, marked by Faber's re-issuing of his most popular collections. The New York Review Of Books published Compulsory Games in 2018 bringing Aickman to the US audience.
Allen, Nick
Nick Allen is a veteran journalist who covered the Afghanistan conflict intensively. Embed: With The World’s Armies in Afghanistan, is a book about his experiences in the Middle East, which was published by The History Press.
Alpher, Yossi
Alpher is an Israeli columnist and writer on Israel/Middle East issues. Alpher is best known as the author of the prize-winning Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies. His latest volume is Death Tango (Rowman & Littlefield).
Bates, Juliet
Juliet Bates is a lecturer at the École supérieure d’arts et médias de Caen/Cherbourg in northern France. Her forthcoming novel The Colours is published by Fleet (2020)
Bednarksi, Lukasz
Lukasz Bednarski is Senior Battery Materials Analyst at IHS Markit, founder of the lithium industry portal Lithium Today and a former commodity trader. He is the author of Lithium:The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution (Hurst, July 2021).
Bennett, Rachel
Rachel Bennett lives on the Isle of Man with her two children and one cat. She works in the criminal courts, and previously in a pathology department. Her debut thriller is The Flood (Avon 2019).
Blood, Ali
Ali Blood spent years as a crime reporter in London. He covered murders, terrorist attacks, robberies and riots for various newspapers.
His next career move was into television news as a producer before setting up his own TV production company. He’s always had a passion for crime fiction and is now a full-time author living in Hampshire – where he pours blood, sweat and tears into his writing!
Bollas, Christopher
Bollas is a world authority on psychoanalytic theory with decades of experience as a practitioner. As well as being one of the most widely read modern psychoanalysts, Bollas is a cultural critic and fiction writer.
Boss, Alan
Boss is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and one of the world's leading authorities on the formation of stars and planets. He has been elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Meteoritical Society, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His popular books covering the search for extraterrestrial life include The Crowded Universe (Basic Books 2012), and Universal Life (OUP, 2020).
Bratton, Francesca
Bratton is a lecturer in American Literature at Uppsala University. Her first book, Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Periodicals (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) will be followed by Stronger than Death in 2023.
Bujold, Lois McMaster
McMaster Bujold is a fantasy writer whose Miles Vorpatril series has been an international success. A four time winner of the prestigious Hugo Award, she is a bonafide master of the speculative fiction genre.
Burgess, Anthony
During his illustrious career Anthony Burgess produced many works of fiction (including A Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers and The Malayan Trilogy), composed symphonies for orchestra, wrote critical works on writers and writing, and translated and adapted plays for the stage. Artellus Ltd represented Burgess during his most prolific years, from the late 1970s to his death in 1993. Posthumously Artellus Ltd undertook the international Burgess revival, from which his works benefited, until 2013.
Butcher, William
William Butcher has taught at the École nationale d’administration, researched at Oxford, and is now a Hong Kong property developer. His books, notably for Oxford UP, Acadian and Gallimard, include 'Jules Verne inédit: Les manuscrits déchiffrés', 'Jules Verne: The Biography' (2020) and many translations and critical editions.