Contributors

Tom Mueller is a New York Times bestselling author whose previous books include Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and the Atlantic Monthly. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy.

Ian Morris is Willard Professor of Classics, Professor of History and a fellow of the Archaeology Centre at Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of Why the West Rules – For Now and has appeared on a number of television networks, including the History Network and PBS.

Oliver Morton is a senior editor at The Economist and an award winning writer. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planetand The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World.

Hugh Moss' father was one of London's leading twentieth-century dealers in Asian art. In the early 1960s Hugh joined his father's company, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd, and in 1968 set up his own London gallery. In 1975 he established himself in Hong Kong, representing some of the best Chinese artists working outside mainland China. He has since become a well-known painter and calligrapher, working under his studio name ('The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat') within the Chinese contemporary ink movement. He is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts in Chinese snuff bottle, scholarly works of art and modern paintings. He has been married to Blossom Lee Xuemei for more than thirty years and has three grown-up children. He spends most of his time in Hong Kong, but still travels widely.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, and is founding director of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. The author of 19 books, she advises CEOs of large and small companies and has received 23 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes for her books and articles.

Junaid Mubeen is a mathematician turned educator. He has spent over a decade working on innovative learning technologies, reaching students of all ages and abilities from around the world. Junaid has a DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford and a Masters in Education from Harvard, where he studied as a Kennedy Scholar. He once earned fleeting fame as a Countdown series winner. Junaid is currently working with bestselling science author Simon Singh on developing the world's largest online maths circle, parallel.org.uk.

Chris Mullin was elected labour MP for Sunderland South in 1987. He chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a minister in three departments. He is the author of the A View From the Foothills and Decline and Fall(Profile) and the novel A Very British Coup (Serpent's Tail)

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927-2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages so far. Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch post-war literature.

Juliette Morton is a celebrant and community arts producer. She has won the Laurie Lee Prize, been longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize and her nonfiction has been published in Caught by the River, the Oxford Review of Books and Elsewhere: A Journal of Place. She is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes and is highly commended by the Forward Prizes.

Alice Munro is the author of thirteen short story collections and one novel. She has won numerous prizes and awards, including the International Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor General's Award. She was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

'Munro changed our sense of what the short story can do as radically as Chekhov … she penetrates in words into the hidden roots of how we choose to live, and why we act' New Yorker

Antonio Muñoz Molina is the author of more than a dozen novels, including In the Night of Time (also published by Tuskar Rock), Sepharad, and A Manuscript of Ashes. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including Spain's National Narrative Prize, the Planeta Prize, and the Príncipe de Asturias Prize. He lives in Madrid and New York City.

Guy Morpuss worked as a barrister for thirty years, on cases featuring drug-taking cyclists, dead Formula 1 champions and aspiring cemetery owners. Much like his fictional creation Charles Konig he was a celebrated King's Counsel, and enjoys writing letters to The Times to see how many they'll print. He is the author of Five Minds, Black Lake Manor and A Trial in Three Acts, and is working on a second Konig novel. Guy lives near Farnham with his wife and two sons.

Roger Morgan-Grenville was a soldier from
1978-86 and later helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes, acting as its first head fundraiser. He is the author of Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey (2020), Shearwater (2021), Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows (2022) and Across a Walking
Land (2023). He is a founder member of
the conservation charity Curlew Action.

Martin Moran grew up in Denver, lives in New York City where he is an actor and writer, and has appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. He performs a one-man play of The Tricky Part all over the world.