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Pantucci is a counter-terrorism expert, formerly with CSIS, IISS, and currently in Shanghai. He is a regular media pundit on matters of terrorism. His work on the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London is published by Hurst/Columbia University Press.

Ashleigh Bell Pedersen’s fiction has been featured in New Stories from the South, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Design Observer, The Silent History, and A Strange Object. Her story “Small and Heavy World” was a finalist for both Best American Short Stories and a Pushcart Prize, and her story Crocodile won The Masters Review 2020 Flash Fiction Contest. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was the recipient of a teaching fellowship and Turow-Kinder Award. Her debut novel is The Crocodile Bride (Hub City Press, 2022).

Pascale Petit's eighth poetry collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and for Wales Book of the Year. A poem from the book, 'Indian Paradise Flycatcher', won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017) won the inaugural Laurel Prize in 2020, the 2018 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize, was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her sixth collection, Fauverie, was her fourth to be shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and a portfolio of poems from it won the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize. T. S. Eliot shortlisted What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010), was also shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Salt published her debut novel, ‘My Hummingbird Father’, in 2024. Her ninth poetry collection, Beast, was published by Bloodaxe in 2025 and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

John Plender is former deputy editor and currently columnist at the Financial Times. His book Going off the Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy is published by Wiley.

Dr. Plesch is Senior Associate Professor at SOAS. He founded the British American Security Information Council in Washington and worked with RUSI, BBC, and CNN international. His op-eds have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post and the Guardian. Dr Plesch is the author of 'America, Hitler, and the UN', and 'The Beauty Queens’ Guide to World Peace' and co-editor of 'Wartime Origins and Future of the United Nations'.

James Pope-Hennessy CVO is one of 20th Century Britain's greatest biographers, writing on Anthony Trollope, Queen Mary, and Monckton Milnes. He was also an accomplished travel writer, particularly famous is his book Aspects of Provence

Leslie Primo is an independent art historian specializing in early to late medieval and Renaissance art. He has presented several art history programs for the BBC and regularly lectures at the National Portrait Gallery, Imperial College London, The Arts Society, and other leading institutions. Primo’s commitment to interrogating the historical canon and championing inclusive narratives continues through this book, his first with Thames & Hudson.

Samir Puri began his career as a lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, and guest lectured at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. He retains a visiting post at King’s and between 2020  and 2022 was Senior Fellow at IISS-Asia in Singapore. In 2023, he became an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His first two volumes were published by Routledge and his ground-breaking work, The Great Imperial Hangover, focuses on the legacy of empires (Atlantic Book, 2020). His recent works include 'Russia's Road to War with Ukraine' (Biteback, 2022) and 'Westlessness' (Hodder & Stoughton, 2024).

Matthew Qvortrup is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Coventry University, Visiting Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, and the acclaimed author of 'Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader'. He regularly appears on broadcast media and writes for publications including Philosophy Now, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian and The Times. He also appears as a regular commentator for the BBC, on both radio and television. His recent titles include 'Great Minds on Small Things' (Duckworth, 2023) and 'I Want to Break Free' (MUP, 2022).

James Raven is a consummate crime writer, also writing under the pseudonyms Jaime Raven, JP Carter, and most recently Alex Pine. A regular on numerous Amazon best seller charts, his newest novel The Christmas Killer arrives in Autumn 2020. Before becoming a full time writer he worked in television and journalism.

Tony Nourmand is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of R|A|P. He comes to publishing from a successful career in gallery ownership, art and film. Tony was the consultant for vintage movie posters at Christie’s, London. For twenty years, he co-owned the largest collection of film posters in Europe, and opened the groundbreaking Reel Poster Gallery in London. After publishing art books of film posters, he closed the gallery, and founded Reel Art Press Limited, a publisher of luxury books on films and contemporary music culture.

Salman Rushdie is a renowned British-Indian author known for his literary contributions and controversial works.

Ray Russell is the publisher of Tartarus Press and authored a collection of short stories, Bloody Baudelaire, published in German. “Backgammon”, a short story from the collection, is currently filming.

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.

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.