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Anna Jones is a cook, food writer and stylist. One grey, late-for-the-office day, she decided to quit her day job after reading an article about following your passion. Within weeks, she was signed up on Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen apprentice programme. She went on to be part of Jamie’s food team – styling, writing and working behind the scenes on books, TV shows and food campaigns.

Alex James was the bass guitarist in the nineties band Blur, a life he chronicled with great success in his first book, Bit of a Blur. He now lives on a farm in the Cotswolds with his wife and five children, makes cheese, writes for both the Sun and the Spectator and has his own show on Classic FM. In September 2011 he hosted the ‘Harvest’ festival at his farm, combining the best in British music and food.

Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of history at Harvard University. In 2017 she won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction.

Kate Jennings, who grew up in Australia, has lived in New York since 1979. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and she is the author of an award-winning collection of short stories, ‘Women Falling Down in the Street’. She is the author of ‘Snake’ and ‘Moral Hazard’.

Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City and received the Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. He lives in Virginia, USA.

Allan Jenkins is the award-winning editor of Observer Food Monthly. He was previously editor of the Observer Magazine, food and drink editor on the Independent newspaper and once lived in an experimental eco-community on Anglesey, growing organic food on the edge of the Irish Sea. He is the co-author of Fish, the J. Sheekey cookbook, and lives in north-west London.

Rob Jovanovic is a prolific music writer and has written biographical titles on on Beck, Nirvana, Big Star, Kate Bush, Michael Stipe and George Michael , as well as a number of sports titles.

Sebastian Junger is the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York.

Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne, written for the Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). Her first novel, Saraswati Park (2010), won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and India’s Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Another Country is her second novel.

Dylan Jones is the award-winning editor of GQ magazine and a columnist for the Independent and the Mail on Sunday. He has written and edited a variety of books, most notably a personal history of Apple, ‘iPod Therefore I Am’, and the international bestselling biography, ‘Jim Morrison: Dark Star’. He is a former editor at i-D, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times. ‘The best magazine editor in Britain,’ Matthew d’Ancona, editor of The Spectator.