Sander van der Linden is the Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is often dubbed Cambridge’s ‘Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher’ and his pioneering research on fake news, misinformation, science denial, and the psychology of influence and persuasion is world-renowned. He currently resides in Cambridge, UK.
Erik Larson is an author of two previous books, including the critically acclaimed ‘Lethal Passage’, about a boy and a gun. Currently an award-winning writer for ‘Time’ magazine, he formerly wrote features stories for the front page of the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and taught non-fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins Writers’ Seminars and San Francisco State University. He lives in Seattle.
Brindisa is a hugely respected and well known wholesaler of fine, Spanish, artisan foods, importing the most extensive range of high quality Spanish foods to Britain. Admired by all chefs and food writers, Brindisa was founded twenty-one years ago by Monika Linton, and now has a shop in Borough Market and tapas bars throughout London.
Mark Leonard founded the leading independent think tank The Foreign Policy Centre at the age of 24 and is now Executive Director of The European Council on Foreign Relations’. Mark was named by the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential powerful people in Britain. He is 31 years old.
Victor Lodato is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and has won numerous awards for his plays, including an award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. This is his first novel. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona and New York.
Michelin-starred Giorgio Locatelli is one of Britain’s best known Italian chefs. Giorgio began his career at his family’s restaurant in Italy before coming to London. He was head chef at Zafferano, before moving to open Locanda Locatelli, where he remains chef-patron. Giorgio has had a column in the Guardian and written a number of bestselling books, most recently Made In Sicily published in 2011. Giorgio has co-presented series for BBC2 on Sicily and Italy.
Mary S. Lovell began writing in 1980 after a broken back forced her to take a sabbatical from a successful business career. Her first major biography was the international bestseller ‘Straight on till Morning’, a life of the intrepid aviatrix Beryl Markham. Since then she has built upon her reputation with a succession of acclaimed biographies, the research for which involved travel all over the world. She lives in Gloucestershire.
Frances Liardet is a child of the children of the Second World War. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford before traveling to Cairo to work as a translator. She currently lives in Somerset, England, with her husband and daughter, and runs a summer writing session called Bootcamp. We Must Be Brave is her second novel.
James Lever was born in Bolton and educated in Oxford. He’s 38, and spent his twenties writing an 800-page novel called ‘News Sport Weather’, whose subject was ‘everything’. It wasn’t any good, and nor was it published. He lives in London, where he has worked as a comedy-writer and performer, reviewer, ghost and editor. ‘Me Cheeta’ is his first novel.
John Lynch was born in Northern Ireland and is both actor and novelist. He has starred in films such as Sliding Doors, Best and several films about the problems in Northern Ireland such as The Railway Station Man. His first novel Torn Water was published in 2005; Falling Out of Heaven is his latest novel.
