Hana Loftus grew up in east Suffolk and, after spells in London and rural Alabama, has lived in north Essex for the last eighteen years. She is an architect, planner and writer, and has contributed to a number of books, including most recently Common Treasures, an anthology of essays about the challenges faced by rural communities, as well as writing for architecture, art and planning journals. She was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2025. Sixteen Acres is her first book.
Contributors
Attica Locke
Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
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 SourcebookRome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC – AD 200: Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy
Em X. Liu
Alex Livingston
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.
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.
Simon Lewis
Rosa Liksom
Rosa Liksom was born 1958 in Lapland, Finland to a family of farmers and reindeer breeders. A renowned painter, cartoonist, children's writer and filmmaker, she is best known as a prize-winning writer whose books have been translated into more than 15 languages. After living in Kristiania, Copenhagen, where she wrote her first novel, as well as Norway, Iceland, Paris, Brezhnev-era Moscow and in squats and communes throughout Europe, she returned to Helsinki, Finland, in 1987. She won the 2011 Finlandia Prize for Compartment No. 6.
David Lewis
Dr David Lewis read for a doctorate at the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Sussex.
After qualifying as a clinical psychologist and psychopathologist, that is someone who studies mental illness, he founded a registered UK charity to help people with stress and anxiety problems. More recently he set up a not-for-profit website, from which he provides free guidance and answer questions sent in by visitors.
Over the past years, he has published more than 30 books on psychological topics, most of which can be purchased from Amazon or Amazon resellers. He has also appeared in numerous television and radio programmes on psychological and medical topics, including Secret Eaters and Embarrassing Bodies (Channel 4).
He lives near Brighton on the south coast of England and is chairman of Mindlab International, an independent research laboratory based at the University of Sussex.
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.
Beth Lewis
Beth Lewis was raised in the wilds of Cornwall and split her childhood between books and the beach. She has travelled extensively throughout the world and has had close encounters with black bears, killer whales, and Great White sharks. She has been, at turns, a bank cashier, fire performer, juggler, and is currently the Publishing Manager at Rebellion. The Rush is her fifth novel. She lives in Oxford with her wife and daughter.
Marc Levinson
Marc Levinson is a former finance and economics editor of The Economist. He was previously a senior writer at Newsweek and more recently spent 10 years as an economist with JPMorgan Chase. He has published widely on economic subjects in such journals as Harvard Business Review and Foreign Affairs, and is currently senior fellow in international business at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.