Contributors

Andrew Martin is a rail expert and author. His previous titles include Underground, Overground, Night Trains, Belles & Whistles, Steam Trains Today and Train Teasers. He is also the author of Seats of London, a field guide to Transport for London's iconic moquette patterns.

Gerry Martin is an industrialist who has made the history of glass technology his hobby.

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde (husband and wife) are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) in Phoenix, Arizona, where they study various aspects of visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience. They have collaborated with Teller (of Penn & Teller) in their academic work, and their research has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, New Scientist and Wired magazine.

Emily Maguire is the author of four novels, including the international bestseller Taming the Beast, and two non-fiction books. Her articles on feminism, sex and culture have been published widely including in The Age, The Weekend Australian and The Observer. Emily has twice been named as a Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year (2010 and 2013) and was the recipient of the 2011 NSW Writers' Fellowship. In 2014 she spent six months in Paris as the Nancy Keesing Resident at the Cite International des Arts, and has served as Writer in Residence at the Djerassi Artists Program in Northern California (2009) and as an Asialink Literature Resident in Vietnam (2008). Emily has an MA in literature and works as a teacher and mentor to young and emerging writers. She lives in Sydney.

Dan Malakin has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his debut novel, The Regret, was a Kindle bestseller. He is also the author of The Box and The Wreckage of Us. When not writing thrillers, Dan works as a data security consultant, teaching corporations how to protect themselves from hackers. He lives in North London with his wife and daughter.

Joan Magretta MBA, PhD is an award-winning contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where she was strategy editor during the 1990s. A former partner at Bain & Co., she is now a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. She is author of Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy.

Richard Mainwaring is a performing musician, composer, TV presenter and educator. He has presented around 50 music films on the BBC's flagship magazine programme The One Show, and is a regular interviewee on musical matters on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show.

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation. They have edited several MO Diaries, including Nella Last's Peace and Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.

Roisin Maguire lives in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, where she works as a business manager. In 2019, she completed the Write Here… in Belfast novel-writing course, taught by Jan Carson, which was designed to discover exciting, new Northern Irish voices in fiction.

Stuart Maister is a former BBC and ITN national TV and radio reporter who developed the concept of the Strategic Narrative: the core story that clarifies direction and vision in large organisations. His first award-winning business was bought by a NASDAQ firm.

Kevin Vaughan-Smith is a former EY Associate Partner and consultant who has worked with business leaders including IBM, BP, Aviva, Vodafone, O2, and 3 of the Big 4, including 7 years as Managing Director of Franklin Covey UK.

Dr Maxwell Maltz was an internationally renowned plastic surgeon, professor and lecturer, as well as a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, considered one of the most important authors in the field of psychology. In 1960 he published the first edition of Psycho-Cybernetics about self-image and success conditioning techniques, which has sold millions of copies in dozens of languages. He died in 1975.

Matt Furey is president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, a world title-holder in wrestling and martial arts, a bestselling fitness author and entrepreneur. He is committed to preserving and extending the legacy of Maltz's work with sold-out seminars and coaching programmes.

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