Contributors

Ronald D. Davis is the author of the books The Gift of Dyslexia and The Gift of Learning, and founder of the Reading Research Council Dyslexia Correction Center in California, which treats children and adults with dyslexia. He established the Davis Dyslexia Association International (DDAI) to formally train other professionals in the Davis Procedures and there are now Davis Facilitators operating in 30 languages and more than 40 countries worldwide. Ronald died in 2026.

Dr Sarah Davies is an author, chartered counselling psychologist and trauma therapist who specialises in narcissistic abuse, co-dependency and related trauma. She is the author of How to Leave a Narcissist … For Good and has been featured in publications including the Guardian, Daily Mail and Sunday Times.

Nick Davidson is a documentary filmmaker and amateur geologist. He lives in London.

Ian Davidson worked for the Financial Times for many years (among other things as Paris correspondent and as chief foreign affairs columnist). His earlier Voltaire in Exile (2004), was called 'powerful and illuminating … revealing and disturbing' by the Sunday Times.

Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England and analyst for a number of investment banks. His career has seen him tackle all manner of financial crookedness, including the LIBOR and FX scandals, the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank and the Swiss Nazi gold scandal. He has written for the Financial Times and the New Yorker among other publications.

Russell Davies has thought and talked more about PowerPoint than is consistent with a normal and balanced life. For Wired, for the BBC, for MOMA. He gets paid to do PowerPoint about PowerPoint. Alongside that he's made world-beating creative and strategic work for people like Nike, Microsoft and Apple. And he's here to tell you that everything you need to know about great communications is already embedded in PowerPoint.

Daniel Davies was born near Birmingham in 1973 to a Welsh father and a Polish-German mother. He was educated at comprehensive schools, and the universities of Cambridge and East Anglia. He has lived in Prague, Sydney and Barcelona, and is currently based in London. His novel, The Isle of Dogs, was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award and translated into several languages.

Gillian Darley writes widely in the arts media, mostly about architecture and landscape. She is president of the Twentieth Century Society and has written acclaimed biographies of Octavia Hill, John Evelyn and John Soane – the latter two shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Her most recent book is Ian Nairn: Words in Place (Five Leaves Publications, with David McKie). She lives in London.