Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Rathbones Folio and Waterstones Book of the Year prizes and in April 2025 was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Books […]
David Grossman
Born in Jerusalem in 1954, David Grossman is one of Israel’s most celebrated writers. For over 30 years, his work has explored war and peace, love, loss, and the complexity of family. He has published over 35 books – fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature – translated into 45 languages, with his writing featured in The […]
Jonathan Drori
Jonathan Drori CBE is a Trustee of both Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens and Honorary Professor at Birmingham University’s Institute of Forest Research. Previously, he was a Trustee of the Eden Project and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and for BBC TV, was responsible for many science documentaries. He is known for his TED talks […]
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht is the author of fifteen works of non-fiction, including Genius and Anxiety, and the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler? and The Life and Death of Classical Music, which have been translated into seventeen languages. His first novel, The Song of Names, is now an award-winning film. He writes a monthly essay […]
Simon May
Simon May was born in London, the son of a violinist and a brush manufacturer. Visiting professor of philosophy at King’s College London, his books include Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion; Love: A History; Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’; The Power of Cute; How to Be a Refugee; Jump! A New Philosophy […]
Janet Suzman
Dame Janet Suzman DBE is a critically-acclaimed actor and director
Jay Rayner
Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster, perhaps best known as the restaurant critic since 1999 for The Observer. Jay appears regularly on TV, including on Masterchef.
David Horspool
David Horspool is an editor on the TLS, responsible for history, archaeology and sport.
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Monica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian and the founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, an ongoing celebration of the contribution made by refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture. The project also gives voice to the responses of the ‘second generation’ – and beyond – to their families’ complex histories.
Benjamin Markovits
Benjamin Markovits is the author of eleven novels. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subject ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Image © Kat Green
Steven Zipperstein
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author and editor of ten books with his last book – Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History – translated into Hebrew, French, and Romanian. Zipperstein is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts […]
Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and have won the Natan Prize, the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal. […]