Sir Rupert Hart-Davis set up his own publishing company in 1946. He was well regarded as an editor, and was executor to various literary figures of the mid-century. In 1962, he edited and compiled a collection of Oscar Wilde’s letters.
Huan Hsu currently lives in Amsterdam, where he works as a freelance writer and editor for academic and cultural institutions. His essays and fiction have also appeared in Slate, the Literary Review, and Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts.
Donna Hay is Australia’s leading food editor and bestselling cookbook author. Donna’s name is synonymous with accessible yet inspirational recipes and stunning images.
James Hirsch is a writer who has worked on the ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Wall Street Journal’.
Chris Horrie is a journalist and author who writes regularly for the Guardian and the Observer. He is from Bolton.
Duncan Hamilton is one of only two authors to have won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award twice, for Provided You Don’t Kiss Me, about Brian Clough, and Harold Larwood. He lives in Leeds.
Kate Hardie is a writer, actor and screenwriter. She has written and directed films for Channel Four, The BFI and Sky, and is due to direct her feature script Starting the End. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel.
Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge.
In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as ‘surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers’ Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014.
He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
‘Signs of Life’ is M. John Harrison’s eighth novel. His fifth, ‘In Viriconium’, was nominated for the Guardian Fiction Prize; his sixth, ‘Climbers’, won the Boardman Tasker Award in 1989. He has written for several periodicals, including the Spectator, and currently reviews new fiction for the Times Literary Supplement.
