Contributors

Alexander Paul Charrier McKee OBE (25 July 1918 – 22 July 1992) was a British journalist, military historian, and diver who published nearly thirty books.

Jane Brox (born 1956) is an American author, who specializes in non-fiction works. Her father was John Brox (1910-1995). She graduated from Colby College in 1978 and currently lives in Maine.

Dominic Greyer has been fascinated by peculiar place names ever since his parents took him, at age three, on a family holiday to Boot, in Cumbria. Twenty-five years later, after establishing himself as a talented young photographer and cinematographer (including making music promos with Blur, Pulp and Fatboy Slim and a Channel 4 TV series, 'Lesser Spotted Britain') he began touring the highways and byways of Britain searching for ever odder place names to photograph. Over 30,000 miles and two hundred photos later, the result is FAR FROM DULL

Wilferd Arlan Peterson (1900-1995) was an American author who wrote for This Week magazine (a national Sunday supplement in newspapers) for many years. For twenty-five years, he wrote a monthly column for Science of Mind magazine. He published nine books starting in 1949 with The Art of Getting Along: Inspiration for Triumphant Daily Living.

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (28 April 1870 – 6 January 1935), was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds, and many of his pictures illustrated hunting. Aldin's early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech.

Pete Magill is a columnist for Running Times magazine and was the 2013 USA Masters Cross Country Runner of the Year.

Lawrence Scott was born on a sugarcane estate in Trinidad. After coming to England to train as a Benedictine monk, he studied at Oxford and became a teacher. He has since been active in the promotion of Caribbean literature, through New Beacon Books, Wasafiri literary magazine and British universities. Three of his books have been listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He divides his time between London and Port of Spain, Trinidad.