David Coates
David Coates is Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. His books include Prolongued Labour, Palgrave Macmillan, and A Liberal Took Kit, Praeger.
David Coward
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds, England. He won a Scott-Moncrieff prize for his edition of Albert Cohen's Belle Du Seigneur. His translations of the well-loved Maigret series are coming out on Penguin as we write. His translation of Jules Verne's classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is out now.
Doina Rusti
Rusti is a prolific Romanian author of 14 works of fiction. Her novel Lizoanca was awarded the Ion Creangă Prize of The Romanian Academy and hailed as “one of the most powerful contemporary Romanian novels”. Her first volume to be published in the UK, The Book of Perilous Dishes (Neem Tree, 2022), has been translated into German, Spanish and Hungarian and tells a tale of sorcerers and magical culinary recipes.
Edward Luttwak
Luttwak is a military historian who has published groundbreaking works on war culture in ancient times. He is a founding member of IISS and a frequent commentator and adviser to world governments. Luttwak writes for journals including The London Review of Books. The Rise of China vs The Logic of Strategy is his most recent title, published by Harvard UP in 2012.
Emily Wells
Emily Wells teaches at UC Irvine, and writes for publications including The Los Angeles Review of Books, Vogue, Bookforum, Purple and Flash Art. Emily’s debut A Matter of Appearance is published by Seven Stories Press.
Emy Onuora
Emy Onuora is a Liverpool based writer and lecturer on issues of race, ethnicity and sport. 'Pitch Black', his history of black footballers in Britain, was a lead title for Biteback Publishing.
Fiona Mozley
Mozley studied at King's College, Cambridge and went on to live in Buenos Aires and London. Her debut novel Elmet, was released by John Murray in 2017 to critical acclaim and a ManBooker shortlisting. Her second novel Hot Stew, also published by John Murray, was released in March 2021.
Francesca Bratton
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.
Frank K Ryan
Ryan is a fantasy writer and medical man with both science and fantasy tomes on his list. His four-book series will commence this spring. Snowmelt River, published by Jo Fletcher, is a popular volume.
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a prolific Belgian-French author renowned for his Inspector Maigret series and numerous other novels.
Graeme K. Talboys
Former teacher based in Ayrshire, Talboys is the author of the Shadow of Storm series published by Harper Collins. He is also the author of 8 works of non-fiction, on museum education, drama and spirituality.
Guido Steinberg
Steinberg is a counter-terrorism expert, formerly working for the German government. His latest volume on Islamic terrorism in Germany is published by Columbia University Press and is titled German Jihad.
Harold Acton (Estate)
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.