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Posy Simmonds
Posy Simmonds is best known for her weekly cartoon strip which ran in the Guardian from 1977 to 1987. The collected cartoons were published as MRS WEBER'S DIARY, TRUE LOVE, PICK OF POSY, PURE POSY and MUSTN'T GRUMBLE.
Elen Caldecott
My favourite stories are ones where very ordinary people do very extraordinary things. These are the kind of stories I set out to write: real life, but with the promise of adventure.
Laura Beatty
Laura Beatty's debut novel POLLARD won the Authors' Club First Novel Award in 2009 and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
Caroline Waldegrave
Leith's School of Food and Wine was established in 1975 to provide professional training for career cooks and short courses for amateurs.
Jennifer Potter
Jennifer Potter's ten books to date include four novels, a biography, two books about gardens and works of social, cultural and botanical history.
Yasmin Hai
Yasmin Hai was born in North London in 1970 where she continues to live. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian and a senior television current affairs producer. Her television work includes BBC's Newsnight programme as well as award winning documentaries for Channel 4.
Karl French
Karl French is a writer and journalist specialising in cinema and popular culture. He writes a regular column for the Financial Times and contributes articles to national newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, The Guardian, Hotdog and Esquire.
Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor was born and grew up in South Africa but in 1970 made his home in Britain. He has been a Foreign Correspondent for The Times, the Observer and the Economist in Africa, Australia and the Pacific.
Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex.
Philip Ziegler
Philip Ziegler was born in 1929 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He was a diplomat before becoming an editorial director at the publishers William Collins.