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Professor Dame Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and was lately Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of books about Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Roth, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, as well as numerous other works.

Janice Y.K. Lee graduated from Harvard University. She worked as a features editor at ‘Elle’ and ‘Mirabella’ magazines in New York before becoming a full-time writier. A Korean-American, she currently lives in Hong Kong with her family.

Jim Lewis is the author of two previous books, a novel ‘Sister’, and in collaboration with photographer Jack Pierson, a book about Las Vegas, ‘Real Gone’.

Robert Lacey is a historian and biographer. He is the author of a number of bestselling biographies, including those of Henry Ford and Queen Elizabeth II.

Roger Lowenstein reported for the ‘Wall Street Journal’ for over a decade and also wrote colomns for the paper, ‘Heard on the Street’ and ‘Intrinsic Value’. His first book, ‘Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist’, was a national bestseller. Besides the ‘Journal’, Mr Lowenstein’s work has appeared in the ‘New York Times’ and the ‘New Republic’. He also writes a colomn for ‘SmartMoney Magazine’. He lives in Westfield, New Jersey and has three children.

Jhumpa Lahiri has been a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but is currently teaching in New York. She has published her fiction in various US journals including the New Yorker, and has won several US prizes for her work.

Jeremy Lee joined the Hart brothers at Quo Vadis in Soho in 2012, becoming Chef Proprietor of the venerable restaurant. Jeremy had previously manned the stoves of Blueprint Café, and he has worked with such distinguished restaurateurs as Simon Hopkinson and Alastair Little, who all played a considerable part in the great resurgence of modern British cooking.

Jay Rayner described him as a ‘rare phenomena in the London food world; a chap everyone agrees is a good thing.’

In 2012 Jeremy and Quo Vadis won the Catey for Best Restaurant Menu of the Year; in 2013 they won the Tatler Award for Best kitchen. In 2018, Jeremy was listed in the Evening Standard’s ‘Progress 1000: London’s most influential people – Tastemakers: Eat & Drink’.

He writes for numerous newspapers and periodicals and often appears on television. Jeremy’s first cookbook, Cooking: Simply and Well for One or Many was published by 4th Estate in 2022.

In 2023, Jeremy was awarded an MBE for services to the Food Industry.