Contributors

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His previous books include Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, and Pastoral, which was also nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Fifteen Dogs won the 2016 Giller Prize, and The Hidden Keys was published in 2017.

Ash Ali is an award-winning serial tech entrepreneur and investor. As the first marketing director of Just Eat UK, a FTSE 100 startup that IPO'd for £1.5 billion, and with over 20 years of hands-on experience in launching, growing and advising startups, he is an outspoken patron of social mobility and continuous education. The Unfair Advantage is his first book.

Tom Allan has been working as a thatcher since 2012. Based in South Devon, he also writes for the Guardian's Country Diary and the travel section of the Financial Times. He can be found at tomallanthatching.co.uk

Alice Albinia is the prize-winning author of two books, Empires of the Indus and Leela's Book: A Novel. RLF Fellow at King's College London, she has spent the past seven years living in and traveling around the edges of Britain, from Orkney to Anglesey, discovering female-centred epic stories which have inspired this novel and a work of non-fiction, The Britannias, due to be published by Allen Lane in 2022.

Anjana Ahuja is the Financial Times science columnist and holds a PhD in space physics.

Alexandra Aikhenvald is a professor at the James Cook University in Australia. Born in the USSR, she has lived and worked in the Amazon region of Brazil and Papua New Guinea, and speaks (among others) Estonian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Tariana, French, German, Yiddish and Tok Pisin, a Papuan language in which she occasionally dreams.

John Aitchison is a wildlife filmmaker. His many awards include a joint BAFTA and a joint Primetime Creative Emmy both for the cinematography of the BBC series Frozen Planet.

Alina is the Founder of Adaptaa, a trailblazing Executive Coaching and Leadership Development company. She is an accredited Emotional Intelligence coach with over 20 years of business and leadership experience. She is also a qualified chartered accountant, and was previously an Investment Banker with Rothschild, latterly as a Managing Director and Head of Trading. She is on the board of several charities, and remotely manages a hotel that she built in Transylvania in 2004.

Kaouther Adimi is a young Algerian novelist living in France. A Bookshop in Algiers is her third novel and was published in France in 2017, where it got the trifecta of major French award nominations (the Goncourt, Renaudot & Médicis prizes) and sold over 50,000 copies.

Katherine Addisonis the author of The Goblin Emperor and the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy. Her short fiction has been selected by The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Science Fiction. As Sarah Monette, she is the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series; and co-author, with Elizabeth Bear, of the Iskryne series. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin.

Kamal Ahmed is an entrepreneur, author and journalist. He was formerly the editorial director of BBC News, and its economics editor until 2018. He has been the political editor of the Observer and the business editor of the Telegraph. He is the co-founder of The News Movement, a growing digital media organisation. The Trillionaires is his second book

Guy Adams trained and worked as an actor for twelve years before becoming a full-time writer. If nothing else this proves he has no concept of a sensible career. He mugged someone on Emmerdale, performed a dance routine as Hitler, and spent eighteen months touring his own comedy material around clubs and theatres. He is the author of the bestselling Rules of Modern Policing: 1973 Edition, a spoof police manual `written by' DCI Gene Hunt of Life On Mars. Published by Transworld, it has sold over 120,000 copies. Guy has also written a two-volume series companion to the show published by Simon & Schuster; a Torchwood novel, The House That Jack Built (BBC Books); and The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional facsimile of a scrapbook kept by Doctor John Watson. Carlton Books published it in 2009 in association with the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth.