Contributors

Aidan Truhen is the pen name of a writer gone AWOL. He is not your grandmother's crime novelist. The Price You Pay is the first Aidan Truhen novel. There'll be more, though, so you'll want to save up. That or move somewhere they don't sell books. Your call.

DEBORA HARDING spent her childhood in the Midwestern prairie states of Nebraska and Iowa. At the age of nineteen she dropped out of university to work for Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign,
before relocating to Washington, D.C., to run an environmental non-profit. Fed up with politics, she cycled across America where she met her English husband, author Thomas Harding. She then joined him in the UK and worked at an award-winning video production company that focused on the counter-culture protest movement in Europe. Later, she co-founded the UK's first local television station in Oxford and gave birth to two children, Kadian and Sam. Wanting the children to enjoy the great outdoors, the family moved back to the USA, and Debora trained as a restorative justice mediator and ran an independent bicycle business. She is now a full-time writer and activist and splits her time between the United States and England.

Suzy Hansen lived for more than a decade in Istanbul, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award.

Her writing has appeared in many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Observer and New York Magazine. In 2007, she was awarded a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to live in and write about Turkey.

Hansen taught writing in Bard College's Globalization and International Affairs program for four years. In 2019, she was a Practitioner-in-Residence at New York University's Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and in the spring of 2020, she was a a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Hansen was an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America from 2019-2020. She lives in New York.

Writer, broadcaster and journalist Belinda Harley began her career in publishing, working with such writers as Quentin Crewe, Hugh Johnson and Terence and Caroline Conran. She has published two highly acclaimed cookbooks on Harry's Bar and Annabels, and has produced cookbooks for Daylesford Organic.

Whilst working as a journalist, literary editor and food writer, Belinda has spent many blissful years researching the food and recipes of the island of Paxos, exploring its heritage as the epitome of Mediterranean food, and interpreting ancient recipes as contemporary and innovative food to inspire a modern generation.

Her short memoir of life on Paxos, and the tale of the dog she rescued from the island, was selected as one of Hatchards' Books of the Year. Her book about the food, cooking and culture of Greece, Roast Lamb in the Olive Groves ('a wonderful original book' Prue Leith) was shortlisted for an award by the Guild of Food Writers. Belinda broadcasts frequently; she is working on her next cookbook, a novel and a radio play.

Sophie Hannah is that rare thing: an acclaimed and best-selling poet. Her first book was greeted with amazement. The Poetry Review declared, 'Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS.' Each subsequent collection has been informally more inventive, thematically more complex, yet each has met with a similar welcome. Her latest book, 'First of the Last Chances', was published in 2003.

Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster, following careers as an economist, professor at the London Business School (which he co-founded) and a consultant to a wide variety of organisations. He is widely regarded as the top 'business guru' in the UK, and has been rated as one of the most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50.

Stephen Hanselman has worked for over three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He received a Master's degree at Harvard Divinity School, while also studying at Harvard's philosophy department.

Ron Hansen (born December 8, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and professor. He is known for writing literary westerns exploring the people and history of the American heartland, notably The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (1983), which was adapted into an acclaimed film starring Brad Pitt.

Jane Hamilton-Merritt (born Mary Jane LaRowe, 1937), in Noble County, Indiana is a retired college professor, photojournalist, author, and animal rights and animal husbandry advocate. She resides in Redding, Connecticut. In 1999, she was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Some of her work has focused on breeding and raising Llamas and Alpaca.

Born in 1859, Knut Hamsun published a stunning series of novels in the 1890s: Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892) and Pan (1894). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil.

Ceri Hand is a creative coach with more than thirty-five years experience of shaping the cultural landscape in the UK. Formerly the Director of Programmes at Somerset House and founder of Ceri Hand Galleries, she has helped thousands of artists and professionals build creative lives that are financially and emotionally sustainable.