Contributors

Rick Gekoski is is a rare book dealer, writer, and broadcaster. His previous publications include The Bibliography of William Golding, a collection of essays entitled Tolkien's Gown, and Outside of a Dog. He has presented two BBC Radio 4 series: Rare Books, Rare People and Lost, Stolen, or Shredded: The History of Some Missing Works of Art, and was chair of judges for the Man Booker International Prize 2011.

Dr Gavin Francis is a GP and urgent care physician with a special interest in mental health. He is the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being, Shapeshifters and Intensive Care. He writes about health and medicine for the Guardian, London Review of Books and the Times, among others.

Matt Furey is president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, a world title-holder in wrestling and martial arts, a bestselling fitness author and entrepreneur. He is committed to preserving and extending the legacy of Maltz's work with sold-out seminars and coaching programmes.

Matthew Fray is a relationship coach and writer who leans on the lessons of his failed marriage and divorce to help others avoid making the same mistakes he did. He got divorced because he left dishes by the sink. Fray writes about that and more on his blog Must Be This Tall To Ride.

Born in 1980 in Hamburg, Hauke Friederichs studied Social and Economic History and wrote his PhD thesis on piracy in the Mediterranean. He has worked for publications including Die Zeit, Stern, Geo, Epoche and P.M. History.

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-born American psychoanalyst and social philosopher who explored the interaction between psychology and society. By applying psychoanalytic principles to the remedy of cultural ills, Fromm believed, mankind could develop a psychologically balanced "sane society."

Dr. Peter Fuda is a prolific change agent, and globally respected authority on leadership and business transformation. He leads the international management consulting firm The Alignment Partnership (TAP) who have produced more than 30 published case studies of business transformation and 500 cases of leader transformation over fifteen years. Peter has coached more than 200 CEOs, delivered speaking engagements to tens of thousands of leaders on four continents, is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Business (MGSM), and was the first Australian to be published on leadership transformation in the Harvard Business Review.

Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future, State Building,After the Neocons, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. All have been hugely influential international bestsellers, translated and published in many languages. He is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford.

Dr. Nathan Fox is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He has a busy clinical practice of high-risk obstetrics, regularly publishes his peer-reviewed clinical research, and is invited to lecture nationally and internationally on pregnancy-related topics. He is also the host of the Healthful Woman Podcast. He has four children.

Michael Frank is the author of the memoir The Mighty Franks and the novel What is Missing. His essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The TLS, among other publications. He served as a Contributing Writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review for nearly ten years. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies. www.karenjoyfowler.com

Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming. She is the author of several memoirs, including Leaving Before the Rains Come, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Director of film promotion company The Creative Partnership, Christopher Fowler is the author of twelve novels, as well as numerous screenplays and collections of short stories. His first novel, the bestseller Roofworld, has been developed as a film. One of his short stories, The Master Builder, became a CBS movie starring Tippi Hedren. Another, Left Hand Drive, won Best British Short Film in 1993. The short story 'American Waitress' in Demonized won the British Fantasy Society's Best Short Fiction Prize 2004.