Christopher Nye was born and raised in West Sussex. His childhood ambitions were to become a Zulu, and then a diplomat, but thwarted by poor A level grades he settled for a course in hotel and catering management at Leeds Poly. His subsequent career ranged from sculpting celery on a Caribbean cruise ship to running the crêpe stand on Brighton pier, before he hit on the plan of bringing his unique Diner cuisine to the people of small town Britain, starting out with Uckfield…
Christopher currently lives in Lewes, where he works as a freelance journalist (oh alright, and as a taxi driver).
Marcus O'Dair is the author of Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt. Shortlisted for the Penderyn music book prize, it was a Radio 4 book of the week and a book of the year in the Guardian, the Independent, The Times, Sunday Times, Evening Standard and Uncut magazine. Marcus has written for publications including the Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, Irish Times, Uncut and Jazzwise. As one half of Grasscut, he has performed across Europe and released three acclaimed albums (Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings). He is a senior lecturer in popular music at Middlesex University in London.
Nathan Oates's debut collection of short stories, The Empty House, won the 2012 Spokane Prize. He is an associate professor at Seton Hall University, where he teaches creative writing. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. A Flaw in the Design is his debut novel.
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, powwow dancer and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and New Yorker among others. Julian's many awards include the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and multiple National Native Media Awards. In 2021 he was named to the TIME100 Next list. His first documentary, Sugarcane, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where NoiseCat and his co-director won the directing award in their category. Julian is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
Raha Nik-Andish is the pen name for a writer, translator and art historian who lives in Tehran. He has written features and essays for The London Review of Books and The Markaz Review. Tehran Diaries is his first collection.
Ali Nolan is a journalist and writer based in Utah, USA. As the former features editor and current contributor for Runner's World, she is active in empowering women in the running world, having spoken at the Under Armour Women's Panel, Donna Marathon Pre-Race Dinner, and
other events. She has completed two road marathons, a trail marathon, and other races.
After leaving Oxford, Edward Norfolk worked as an accountant with Coopers & Lybrand before setting up his own bottled LPG company, now part of Esso. He then set up
a waste management company before selling it to Viridor in 2002. He is currently involved in ten private equity start-up companies as an adviser, and spends a lot of his time running his family estates. As the Duke of Norfolk, he is also the Earl Marshal and was responsible for delivering the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III.
Michel Nieva is an Argentinian writer based in New York, where he teaches Writing at NYU. Nominated among Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021 and a winner of the O. Henry Award in 2022, Nieva has previously published short stories and essays. Dengue Boy is his
first novel.
Michael has been working in the pain field since 1980 as a clinical psychologist, educator, and researcher. Between 1988 and 1990 Michael
was the inaugural director of the inpatient pain management programme (INPUT) at St Thomas' Hospital in London. This programme was established with the support of the Kings Fund to evaluate the effectiveness of this form of pain management in the UK. The INPUT programme continues to achieve outstanding results and over the years it has received widespread international recognition. Since returning to Australia Michael joined the Pain Management and Research Centre at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney (with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney), where he is now an Associate Professor. In 1994 Michael established the ADAPT programme at the Royal North Shore Hospital. This is based directly on the original INPUT programme in London and is achieving similar results. More recently, he has been involved in assisting the development of
similar programmes in Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore, as well as Australia. Michael has published over 120 papers in books and scientific journals, on the management of pain, and he has lectured on the field in many countries.
Henry Nicholls is a journalist, author and broadcaster,in evolutionary biology, conservation and history of science. He is the author of The Way of the Panda (9781846683688). His first book Lonesome George was about the Galapagos Archipelago and global conservation.
Peter Nichols is the author of the bestselling novel The Rocks, and the international bestsellers A Voyage for Madmen(finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), Evolution's Captain, and three other books of fiction, memoir, and non-fiction. His novel Lodestar was nominated for the Dublin IMPAC literary award. He has taught creative writing at a number of universities, including Georgetown University, Bowdoin College, New York University in Paris, and Antioch University Los Angeles. Before turning to writing full time, he held a 100 ton USCG Ocean Operator's licence and was a professional yacht delivery skipper for 10 years. He has also worked in advertising in London, as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, been a shepherd in Wales, and sailed alone in a small boat across the Atlantic.
Born in 1891, Kimon Nicolaïdes was a renowned Greek American art teacher, author and artist, who taught at New York's Art Student's League for fifteen years. He had a natural talent for teaching and became an inspiration to a generation of devoted young artists, as well as leaving behind the concrete system of art teaching presented in this book. He died in 1938.
Novelist and screenwriter Andrea Newman changed the face of British culture in the seventies with her steamy television serial A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire, based on her novel of the same name. Among her more recent credits are the hugely successful A Sense Of Guilt, Imogen's Face, An Evil Streak and Pretending To Be Judith. She was born in Kent and now lives in London.
