Russ Litten

Russ Litten has written drama for television, radio and Hollywood film. He currently works as a writer in prisons and lives with his family in Kingston Upon Hull.

Finbarr Livesey

Dr Finbarr Livesey was a lecturer in public policy at the University of Cambridge, before which he spent ten years working in the Engineering department at Cambridge. He previously worked in technology development and continues to consult for national governments and multi-national corporations. He died in 2019.

Alan Lloyd

Alan Lloyd is the author of more than 30 books, including Destroy Carthage, Marathon, and The Taras Report on the Last Days of Pompeii.

Kathryn Lomas

Kathryn Lomas is Honorary Research Fellow in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Her books include Roman Italy 338 BC to AD 200: A Sourcebook</i>; Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC – AD 200: Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy</i>; and numerous edited volumes on Italian history and archaeology.

John Lomax

John A. Lomax (1867-1948) recorded classics such as 'Home on the Range' and 'Goodnight Irene' and with son Alan, helped launch the musical careers of Leadbelly and Pete Seeger. His extensive recordings and papers are housed in the Library of Congress and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Flo Longhorn

Flo Longhorn has worked for many years with children with severe learning difficulties, both in Britain and in the United States. She now works as a special consultant in special needs in the UK and abroad.

Nick Lovegrove

Nick Lovegrove is a veteran consultant, executive coach and writer. He is currently the U.S. Managing Partner of the Brunswick Group, a global corporate advisory firm. Formerly a senior partner at McKinsey & Company in the United States and the United Kingdom, Lovegrove has been a senior fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) and A Rough Ride to the Future (2014). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society. He died on the day of his 103rd birthday in July 2022.

Rosemary Low

Rosemary Low is the author of The Parrot Companion and has been the curator of two of the world's largest parrot collections. She was the editor of "PsittaScene" for 15 years.

Steven Lukes

Steven Lukes is a professor of sociology at New York University. He has written many books about political and social theory, including Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work and the seminal Power: A Radical View, recently released in a new edition 30 years after it was first published.

Atticus Lish

ATTICUS LISH is the author of Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine.

Andrew Likierman

Professor Sir Andrew Likierman is Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School and its Dean from 2008 to 2017. He has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. As a non-executive Andrew has chaired the UK National Audit Office, market research firm MORI and US battery company AIC. He has been President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, a Director of the Bank of England, Barclays Bank, Times Newspaper Holdings Ltd, insurer Beazley plc and is currently a director of Monument, a start-up bank.

J Robert Lennon

J. Robert Lennon is the author of eight novels. His fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine, the New Yorker and the LRB. He lives in upstate New York.