Contributors

Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He is the author of four previous novels: The Four Fingers of Death, Purple America, The Ice Storm and Garden State, as well as an award-winning memoir and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Moody lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

Jelmer Mommers is a climate journalist based in Amsterdam. He made world headlines when he uncovered an alarmist climate documentary made by Shell in 1991, and again when he released internal Shell-documents showing the companies' internal research into global warming. Those documents are now being used in court cases against the oil giant worldwide.

Marie Mongan was a clinical hypnotherapist and recipient of the 1995 National Guild of Hypnotists President's Award. She founded the HypnoBirthing Institute in the US in 1989 and it now operates globally. She was the mother of four children, all born using the techniques upon which HypnoBirthing is based. Marie Mongan passed away in June 2019.

Robert Monroe is the founder of the internationally renowned Monroe Institute for Applied Sciences, known for its work on the effects of sound wave forms on human behaviour, and the Mind Research Institute, which undertakes extensive psychological and psychic research.

Lucy Moore is an author and broadcaster whose work includes the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Observer, Vogueand Harpers Bazaar, and has presented series for the BBC and Sky.

R. I. Moore was professor emeritus of Medieval History at Newcastle University. His books include The First European Revolution and The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Western Europe 950-1250, which was described by the Guardian as "One of the most influential and controversial books of medieval history of the last twenty years". He died in 2025.

Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and other newspapers. His book On Roads was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and, together with his previous book, Queuing for Beginners, received unanimous critical acclaim.

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.

Elaine Morgan was born in 1920, and after studying at Oxford University, worked as a television writer. In 1972, she published The Descent of Woman suggesting that human evolution had an aquatic origin. This idea was attacked at first by scientists but the book became an international bestseller. In the decades since, Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis has gained widespread support. She died in 2013.

Llewelyn Morgan teaches Classics at Oxford where he is a Fellow of Brasenose College. He has been to Afghanistan several times and has written a number of pieces on the country ancient and modern.

Polly Morland is an award-winning documentary maker, and has directed and produced for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. She is author of the widely-acclaimed book, The Society of Timid Souls.

www.pollymorland.com