Robert Fisk was a bestselling author and the Independent’s Middle East correspondent. He lived in the Middle East for four decades and was the most decorated British foreign correspondent. The Great War for Civilisation, a history of his career and the numerous conflicts he has covered, was published internationally to great critical acclaim. He is also the author of Pity the Nation and The Age of the Warrior.
Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, No.1 bestselling author and broadcaster. He is the Guardian’s Executive Editor for Opinion, and writes a weekly column. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. In 2014 he received the Orwell special prize for journalism. Since 2006 he has published five internationally bestselling novels as Sam Bourne, selling over 2 million copies.
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most distinctive voices in British literature. The prize-winning author of nine novels, three biographies and one collection of short stories, she died in 2000.
Hadley Freeman is a staff writer at the Sunday Times. She worked for more than 20 years at the Guardian and her writing has appeared in many publications. Her previous book, House of Glass, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been published around the world.
John Foot is the author of four books: ‘Modern Italy’, ‘Winning at All Costs’, ‘Milan Since the Miracle’ and ‘Calcio’.
Norma Farnes has been Spike Milligan’s agent, manager and friend for over 35 years. She lives in Yorkshire and London.
Matt Frei has been the BBC’s Washington correspondent since 2002. Prior to that he was the BBC’s Asia correspondent based
Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. ‘Eve Green’ was her first novel which went on to be a best-selling success. ‘Oystercatchers’ and ‘Witch Light’ followed. ‘The Silver Dark Sea’, her most recent novel, was published in 2012.
Richard Francis is a novelist, broadcaster and academic, who taught American Literature for a number of years at Manchester University where he is currently a visiting professor. He is the author of ‘Transcendental Utopias’, a study of American communities, and his two most recent novels are ‘Judge Sewell’s Apology’ and ‘Prospect Hill’. He teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College.
David Flusfeder is the author of six novels: Man Kills Woman (1993), Like Plastic (1996), which won the Encore Award, Morocco (2001), The Gift (2003), The Pagan House (2007) and A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010).
Jonathan Franzen’s work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
