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For over quarter of a century Anna Vaux has been an editor at the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), the world’s most respected intellectual forum. When not safeguarding the literary culture of the country she moonlights as a ghostwriter for several major publishing houses including Penguin... READ MORE

Christopher Silvester has been a freelance journalist and author since the early 1980s. He cut his teeth on the fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye, where he wrote the “New Boys” profiles of newly elected MPs during the Thatcher years. He also contributed to the Eye’s “Street of Shame” and “Grovel” columns as well as writing investigative reports on business... READ MORE

Stephen Robinson is a biographer, journalist and speech writer for a wide range of publications and clients in the UK and beyond. He has written obituaries and profiles of numerous distinguished and disreputable figures in Britain, South Africa and the United States for publications including the Financial Times, the Times... READ MORE

Adrian Dannatt has been hand-crafting obituaries for over twenty-five years for everyone from the Independent and Guardian to Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Art Newspaper. His subjects have largely lingered in the creative arena, whether artists such as Dash Snow, Ray Johnson and Dorothea Tanning or filmmakers like Sandy Whitelaw... READ MORE

Fred Langan is a journalist, novelist and ghostwriter. He has written more than 2,000 long form obituaries for the Toronto Globe & Mail, the National Post and UK Daily Telegraph. Langan worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Company as a financial journalist and for ten years was host of the network's nightly business program...  READ MORE

Alba has been writing books for thirty years. She started doing so in French, as she grew up in Paris, then moved to America, switched to English for her prose and never looked back. She lived in Greenwich Village where she published her first short stories, rented a piano with a missing C, wrote songs she sang to herself... READ MORE

Alba Arikha paints a thoroughly entertaining portrait of the ebullient and debonair francophile James Velaise

A raconteur to rival Peter Ustinov? Stephen Robinson finds out in his alluring profile of Paddy Renouf