Authors

Jonnie FIELDING Author Jonnie Fielding is the Director of Bowl of Chalk, a walking tour company he founded in 2011. Time Out has listed Bowl of Chalk as one of ‘the best London walking tours’ for three years in a row. ​ ‘Bowl of Chalk’ is cockney rhyming slang for ‘walk’. Jonnie and his walks…

Susie ASHFIELD Author Susie Ashfield is one of the world’s leading Speech Coaches. Over the last decade, she has been helping industry leaders, corporate executives, and public figures look good, sound good, and feel great about public speaking. She has been extensively featured on The New York Post, Fox News, Forbes Magazine, BBC, Marie Claire,…

Denise ALLEN Author Dr Denise Allen began her archaeological life as a ‘digger’, excavating throughout the 1970s, then specialised in Roman Glass (completing her PhD at Cardiff University, and later publishing the Roman Glass in Britain, a popular introduction to the subject). She has worked in museums and taught in Continuing Education, and for nearly twenty…

David AMBROSE Author David Ambrose was educated at Oxford University where he read law. By the age of twenty-five he had established himself as a successful playwright and screenwriter. In 1977 his fake TV documentary Alternative 3, about global warming and high-level government conspiracies, became the subject of an international cult. He later moved to Hollywood,…

David ANDRESS Author David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, where he has taught since 1994. He studied History at the University of York between 1987 and 1990, and returned there for a doctorate, awarded in 1995. Show More He is an internationally recognised authority on the French Revolution, and…

Paul ARNOTT Author Paul Arnott’s career in media began at The Independent and Time Out as an arts correspondent before becoming a television producer, mainly with Channel Four – for whom he filmed arts documentaries from Bangalore to Johannesburg, New York to Cannes. His company, Edenwood Productions, has produced a diverse output, from the RSC film of A Midsummer Night’s…

Stephen BATES Author Stephen Bates was educated at Oxford University, where he took a degree in Modern History. He was a journalist for 36 years, working for the BBC, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail before joining the Guardian where he was subsequently education editor, political correspondent, European Affairs Editor, based in Brussels for five years, and finally the paper’s religious affairs…

Chris BLACKHURST Author Chris Blackhurst is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost financial journalists and commentators, writing across a broad range of subjects. He was Editor of The Independent from 2011 to 2013. Previously, he was City Editor of the Evening Standard. He has written the main interview with a leading business or political figure for Management…

Jeremy BORUM Author Jeremy Borum is a film composer, orchestrator, producer, and performer. Among the first wave of working composers to see the digital de-monetization of music as a piece of history, not an on-going process, he built a successful music career in an uncertain industry that is re-inventing itself. He is credited on numerous…

Chris BRADFORD Author Chris Bradford is a multi-million copy bestselling author who is renowned for his live events and for practising ‘method writing’. For his award-winning Young Samurai series, he trained in samurai swordsmanship, karate, ninjutsu and earned his black belt in Zen Kyu Shin Taijutsu. For his Bodyguard series, he embarked on an intensive close-protection course to become…