Contributors

Charles Thomas Gillett was a British radio presenter, musicologist, and writer, mainly on rock and roll and other forms of popular music

John Gimlette has travelled to over sixty countries and has published several books to critical acclaim, including At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig and is a winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize. He contributes regularly to radio and print media including the Guardian, Telegraph, The Times, Independent, Wanderlust and Geographical.

Paul Ginsborg was born in London in 1945. He is currently Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence and before that taught European Politics at the University of Cambridge. He writes for many international newspapers including the LRB and lives in Florence. His previous books include A History of Contemporary Italy (Penguin Press); followed by Italy and its Discontents 1981-2001 (Penguin Press) in 2002.

Rodge Glass was born in 1978 and lives in Manchester where he is part of a large United-supporting family. He had published two previous novels, Fireworks and Hope for Newborns, as well as the acclaimed Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award.

Aaron M. Glazer is the co-founder and CEO of Squishable. Before founding Squishable, he worked as a business researcher, consultant, and journalist. He began studying non-traditional entrepreneurial models during his time at Johns Hopkins University.

Victoria Glendinning is a prizewinning biographer, the author of lives of Elizabeth Bowen, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Trollope and Leonard Woolf. She has also written three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity andFlight. She is a Vice-President of English PEN, Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1998. Born in Yorkshire, she now lives in Dorset. She is currently working on a novel about nuns.

The Boston Globe is one of the largest daily newspapers in America and in November 2001 they petitioned the Massachusetts Superior Court and forced the Boston Archdiocese to release secret documents – and won.

Casey Gerald grew up in Dallas, Texas, and went to Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he cofounded MBAs Across America. He has been featured on MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of Fast Company, and in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among others.

Born and brought up in Cairo, Waguih Ghali spent much of his adult life in Europe. His stay in London and his suicide in 1969 were described by his friend Diana Athill in After a Funeral (Cape, 1986). Beer in the Snooker Club is his only novel.

Tania Glyde is a counsellor in private practice in London. She specialises in sex and relationships and gender/sexual diversities. She also has a strong interest in addiction.
She is the author of two novels and has been a journalist, copywriter, broadcaster and performer.

Gillian Mueller Goddard is an endocrinologist and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the NYU Langone Hospital. She has more than fifteen years of clinical experience and consults with patients regarding thyroid disease, PCOS, menopause, nutrition and weight loss and diabetes. She has particular expertise in endocrine diseases affecting women during the reproductive years, pregnancy and through perimenopause. She is the author of Hot Flash, a weekly newsletter from ParentData by Emily Oster.

Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at UEA, and the author of Hellish Nell, Witchfinders, The Glass Mountain and the Sunday Times-bestselling The Ruin of All Witches. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.