Contributors

Dr Emma Byrne is a scientist, journalist, and public speaker. Her BBC Radio 4 'Four Thought' episode was selected as one of the "best of 2013" by the programme's editors. She has been selected as a British Science Association Media Fellow and for the BBC Expert Women Training, and is published in CIO, Forbes, the Financial Times and e-Health Insider. Swearing is Good For You is her first book.

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. His books about life running Scotland's largest second hand bookshop have been international bestsellers and translated into more than thirty languages.

Hailed by the New York Times as 'The Queen of Change', Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation – in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is the bestselling author of more than forty books, fiction and nonfiction; a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. Commonly referred to as 'The Godmother' or 'High Priestess' of creativity, her tools are based in practice, not theory, and she considers herself 'the floor sample of her own toolkit.' The Artist's Way has been translated into forty languages and sold over five million copies to date.

www.juliacameronlive.com

Kathleen Burk is Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London. She has written on wine for more than 20 years and has been awarded a Diploma in Wine and Spirits. She is the co-author of Is This Bottle Corked?, as well as numerous works of history including The Lion and the Eagle and Old World, New World.

Eli Burnstein is a Canadian humour writer, living in London. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist and Points in Case. He runs a spelling bee (Spelling Bae) that has been featured in the Toronto Star and the National Post, and on CBC Radio.

Tom Bullough, age 26, grew up on a Welsh hill farm. He has worked as a music promoter in Zimbabwe and as a firewood deliveryman in Wales.

Anthony Burgess (1917-93) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, but altogether he wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 150 other musical works, reams of journalism and much more.

Catherine Burns is the editor of The Moth, a collection of short stories which originated with the organisation of the same name.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase.

Dr Joel Burden has followed quite a varied career path as a medieval historian, publisher, fundraiser, author and globetrotter among other things. He has a long connection with Profile Editions as the former managing director of its predecessor publishing house, Third Millennium Information. Joel first got to know AGS when his nephew attended the school and was Head Boy. He has written a wide range of articles for collected volumes and national magazines, mostly on history related subjects, over the course of the past 25 years.