Contributors

James Breiding is author of Swiss Made – the untold story behind Switzerland's success. Available in 7 languages, the book has become the most authoritative work on 'Swissness'. His writing on Swiss issues appear in The Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. He was elected a fellow at Harvard's Centre for International Development, and is the founder and owner of Naissance Capital, a Zurich investment firm.

Madeleine Brent won the Romantic Novelist Association's Novelist of the Year award in 1978, and was shortlisted for the award twice. Madeleine Brent was the pseudonym used by Peter O'Donnell, who also created the legendary thriller heroine Modesty Blaise. Madeleine Brent's real identity was one of publishing's best kept secrets.

Tony Brenton was a British diplomat from 1975 to 2009, completing his career as Charge d'Affaires in Washington, and then Ambassador in Moscow. He is now a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, writing a book on the Russia of Peter the Great, and is a regular commentator on contemporary Russian issues.

Jean Bricmont is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Louvain.

Adam M Brandenburger graduated from Cambridge and is a professor at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of many of Harvard's bestselling strategy cases. He has worked with Ciba-Geigy, Fidelity Investments, Honeywell, KPMG Peat Marwick, Merck, and Northwestern Life Insurance.

Mark Braude is the author of Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. He has been a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Stanford University and was named a 2017-2018 Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Globe and Mail, and other publications. He lives in Vancouver with his wife.

Eldon M. Braun, a former advertising agent and creative director, is coauthor of The Gift of Dyslexia.

Carolyn Boyd is an award-winning British travel and food writer who specialises in France, writing for a wide variety of publications including The Times, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller, and BBC Good Food. She is the author of From the Source: France (Lonely Planet, 2017), a collection of chef interviews and recipes from every corner of the country. Carolyn is also Communications Manager of the Roux Scholarship, the world's most prestigious chef competition.

Lloyd Bradley is the author of Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King (Penguin, 2000), an account of the glory days of the Jamaican music industry, currently in its 14th UK printing, translated into six different languages and the best-selling book ever written about Jamaican music or culture. He was Associate Producer of the BBC's 2002 series Reggae: The Story Of Jamaican Music and author of its accompanying book. As a regular contributor to Mojo, The Observer, the BBC and The Times, and formerly of Q, the NME, The Guardian and The Independent, Lloyd is one of the UK's most respected writers and broadcasters on the subjects of Caribbean music, culture and its impact on the UK.

Vanessa Braganza is a literary historian and book detective who holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her historical discoveries have been profiled in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Times, and she currently writes for Smithsonian, TLS and the Boston Globe. In 2022, Braganza was named a Harvard Horizons Scholar and a Bowdoin Prize recipient. The Secret Seekers is her first book.

Simon Bradley is editor of the World Famous Buildings of England series, founded by Nikolaus Pevsner, to which he has contributed a number of notable revised volumes. He lives in London.

Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author whose long Foreign Office career took him to Indonesia, Poland, Italy, America and Russia. He was British Ambassador in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union, which he described in Across the Moscow River(2002, Yale). Rodric Braithwaite was subsequently foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, John Major, and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is author of Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan (Profile Books), Moscow 1941 (Profile Books), a bestseller translated into nineteen languages and Armageddon & Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation (2017).