Contributors

Alexander Fiske-Harrison was born 1976 and is an English writer and actor. He is best known for writing and acting in The Pendulum in London's West End and has contributed to Prospect, Frieze, The Times and Financial Times.

Pati Fizzano is a teacher who specialises in helping neurodiverse students to achieve their full potential.

Felix Flicker is a lecturer at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. Formerly the Astor Junior Research Fellow of Physics at New College Oxford and a Lindemann Trust Fellow at U.C. Berkeley, he holds a masters in Theoretical Physics from the Perimeter Institute — which he attended during Stephen Hawking's tenure — and a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Bristol. He is the author of scienti?c papers in both Nature and Science as well as popular science articles. While he cannot claim credentials as a wizard, he has a black belt in Kung Fu and is also the former British Champion of Shuai Jiao (Chinese Wrestling).

John-Paul Flintoff is a feature writer for the Sunday Times, and author of Comp: a Survivor's Tale. As well as writing, he has worked as a bin man, executive PA, scuba diver, taxi driver, undertaker, amateur boxer and rat catcher. He lives in London with his wife, Harriet, and daughter, Nancy, whom he torments by making and wearing his own clothes.

Peter Florence is the director of the Hay Festivals and co-editor of OxCrimes.

Twenty-eight years after his release from prison Leaf Fielding has been a teacher in Spain and a philanthropist, setting up a home for orphans in Malawi. He now sells organic produce in the region of the south of France where he lives.
His book, To Live Outside the Law, tells of his role in Britain's biggest drugs bust, Operation Julie, which inspired a Clash son.

Susan Finlay is an artist and writer. Recent and forthcoming projects include The Unruly Glove; The Green Bum and the Sickly Trickle, a series of poems published to coincide with Zoe Williams' exhibition of the same name at Galerie Antoine Levi; Objektophilia, a novella serialized in Egress magazine; The Brexit Chronicles, an audio-series for Ackerman Daly and Isadora, a solo exhibition at MoHA, Austin.

Eleanor Fellowes worked in the Probation Service for seven years, two of which she spent working in HMP Wandsworth. She is now training in psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Since leaving, she teaches and consults to prison, probation and forensic mental health staff. She specialises in psychoanalytic approaches to violence, personality disorder and organisational health.Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books.

Iain Fenlon is Professor of Historical Musicology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. Most of his writing has been concerned with the social and cultural history of music in Renaissance Italy. His books include a two-volume study, Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua (1980), a monograph on the early Italian madrigal (with James Haar), Music, Print and Culture in Early Sixteenth-Century Italy (The Panizzi Lectures, British Library, 1994).
In the course of his career he has been affiliated to a number of other academic institutions including Harvard University, All Souls College Oxford, New College Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the University of Bologna. His most recent books are The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (Yale University Press, 2007), and Piazza San Marco.

Sir Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust and chair of the WHO's R&D Blueprint, which activates rapid research in an epidemic. He is an expert on emerging infectious diseases and a member of the UK's pandemic advisory group, SAGE. He was one of the first people in the world to know about and alert the global community to Covid-19.