Contributors

Jonny Clothier, Meg Clothier's father, has dedicated happy decades to thirty acres of woodland, garden and pasture on the Quantock Hills. He is glad that Meg, now back next door, is finally throwing herself into country living. She has previously written about the joys, mysteries and practicalities of the sea side with her brother, Chris, in Sea Fever.

Norman Coates is a writer, painter and theatre designer. The life partner of Mattei Radev, he is the custodian of the Radev Collection, an art collection built up over three generations by Radev, Eardley Knollys and Edward Sackville-West. He lives in Bloomsbury.

JONTY CLAYPOLE is Director of BBC Arts, Chairman of the arts centre HOME in Manchester, and was listed in
the Bookseller's Top 100 Most Influential People 2020.

Duncan Clarke was born in Salisbury in 1948 and raised in Rhodesia. He gained a PhD in Economics from St Andrews in 1975 and has published extensively on Africa and geo-economics. He has published several books, including The House of Stone, Zambesia and Rhode's Ghost. He lives in Greece.

James Clarke grew up in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. His debut novel The Litten Path was written while studying at the Manchester Writing School, and went on to win the Betty Trask Prize. He lives in Manchester where he is working on his third novel.

Diana Choyleva is the Head of the UK Service at Lombard Street Research

Extensive scholarly training in the psychology of influence, together with over 30 years of research into the subject, has earned Dr. Cialdini an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. His books including, Influence: Science & Practice, are the results of more than 30 years of study into the reasons why people comply with requests in business settings. Worldwide, Influence has sold over one million copies. Influence has been published in twenty languages and consistently ranks within the top one half of one percent of books sold on Amazon.com. In the field of influence and persuasion, Dr. Cialdini is the most cited living social psychologist in the world today. Dr. Cialdini received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina and post doctoral training from Columbia University. He has held Visiting Scholar Appointments at Ohio State University, the University of California, the Annenberg School of Communications, and the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University. Currently, Dr Cialdini holds dual appointments at Arizona State University. He is a W.P. Carey Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Regents' Professor of Psychology, where he has also been named Distinguished Graduate Research Professor. Dr. Cialdini is President of Influence At Work, an international consulting, strategic planning and training organization based on the Six Principles of Influence. Dr. Cialdini's clients include such organizations as Advanta, IBM, Washington Mutual Group of Funds, Coca Cola, KPMG, AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Kodak, Merrill Lynch, Nationwide Insurance, Pfizer, Northern Trust, Prudential, The Mayo Clinic, Glaxo Wellcome, Harvard University – Kennedy School, The Weather Channel, the United States Department of Justice, and NATO.

Dr. Robert Cialdini is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University. He is also president of INFLUENCE AT WORK. Harvard Business Review calls Dr. Cialdini "the leading social scientist in the field of influence." His book, Influence, was named by Inc. magazine as one of the Top 10 Marketing Books of All Time and has been published in twenty-eight languages. Influence is a New York Times bestseller and has sold over 2 million copies.

Duncan Clark is a writer and consultant editor on the Guardian environment desk, co-founder of digital journalism company Kiln and a honorary researcher at the UCL Energy Institute. He helped establish environment charities Cool Earth and 10:10 and has written or edited many books on climate change and related topics.
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Alex Christofi was born and grew up in Dorset. After reading English at the University of Oxford, he moved to London to work in publishing. He has written a number of short pieces for theatre, and blogs about arts and culture for Prospect magazine. Glass is his first novel.

In 1981 Steve moved from a successful teaching career in mainstream education to work with students who had severe specific learning difficulties. Little was known back then about dyscalculia and mathematical learning difficulties, so Steve became a pioneer teacher and researcher in the field. He has written award winning books and resources, founded an award-winning specialist school and lectured/trained teachers in 30 countries. His methods are pragmatic, successful and based on research and vast experience.

Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia in 1928 and studied at the university of Pennsylvania.

Known as one of the principal founders of transformational-generative grammar, he later emerged as a critic of American politics. He wrote and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues. He is now a Professor of Linguistics at MIT, and the author of over 150 books.

E.O. Chirovici has had a prestigious and varied career in the Romanian media and has also published novels and short stories in his native language. His first book in the English language, The Book of Mirrors, was published in January 2017. He lives in Brussels with his wife.