Crispin Aubrey (THE WIND OF CHANGE and CUBA SI!)
Crispin is a freelance journalist and editor of Wind Directions, magazine of the European Wind Energy Association. He was once arrested under the Official Secrets Act during a journalistic interview, and famously avoided threatened imprisonment.
James Badcock (NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING)
James is a freelance journalist based in London and specialising in North Africa. He works for Index on Censorship.
Keith Blount (TOOTH ACHE)
Keith is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London.
David Brooks (AFTER CUPITT and THE GAFFER'S FEAR OF THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE: ON GOD AND FOOTBALL)
David is a philosopher, theologian and occultist. He divides his time between the Underworld, the Sky and Belgravia. His hobbies include Persian cats and mass Millenarian movements. His ambitions are to start a new World Religion and to have fun.
Rosalind Buttered-Crumpet (FONDUE, MOROCCAN BROWNIES and ROMANTIC SUPPER)
Rosalind is the nom de plume of a world-renowned cookery writer / international TV celebrity / well-known society hostess whose glittering lifestyle is the envy of millions.
Adam Caplin (SEX 'N' SLUGS)
Adam writes on gardening. He lives in Highbury, part of Islington, within earshot of Arsenal football stadium. His books include Instant gardening, The urban Eden and Planted junk.
Dale Dapkins (CHURCH OF THE BUNNY, HEMINGWAY DAYS, ALPACA POTATO, DYING, I'M GETTING DIVORCED and SPIRITUAL EMAIL)
Stringing together a lifelong series of failures, Dale managed to astound and confound himself by winning the 1999 and 2000 grand prizes in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. He's a painter in acrylics when not writing and is collected in major corporate collections. He failed creative writing and got a 'D' in painting.
Vera Dove (VIEW FROM THE U.N.)
Vera is English and works for the UN in New York.
David Finkle (NOTES FROM GOTHAM)
David is a freelance writer who usually writes about politics and the arts but has been living in New York City for so long he's reached the point where he feels the urge to write about it.
Michael Griffin (FOGGY-GREEN, FORGOTTEN WATERS, MR SAM AND THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY, SATELLITES AND STARS and MISSION TO CLEANSE?)
Michael's book, Reaping the whirlwind - The Taliban movement in Afghanistan, was described by the BBC's John Simpson as "a highly intelligent account of one of the most interesting and disturbing political movements in the world". He worked as an information consultant for UNICEF in Afghanistan.
Tamar Haspel (FOOD STUFF)
Tamar is co-author (with her mother Barbara) of Dreaded broccoli, a quarterly &"food newsletter with a sense of humor" ('USA Today'). They co-wrote The dreaded broccoli cookbook (Scribner, 1999).
Victor Headley (THE LONG ROLL CALL )
Victor was born in Jamaica and now lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the author of the bestselling Yardie, as well as three other novels, Excess, Yush! and Fetish. Off Duty has just been published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Terence Howard (PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS and review of THE GREAT HEDGE OF INDIA)
Terence, a Somerset art teacher, took up mountaineering by chance about eight years ago and has climbed in Wales, Scotland, the Alps, Cornwall, Ecuador and now the Indian Himalayas. He has two grown-up children and a tolerant wife.
Jacob Levich (BUSH'S ORWELLIAN ADDRESS: HAPPY NEW YEAR -- IT'S 1984)
Jacob Levich is a writer, editor, and activist living in Queens, New York.
Millicent Lydiard (INDIAN SUMMER IN MIDDLE ENGLAND)
Millicent lives in bucolic splendour in Wootton Bassett.
Brigid McConville (SEX AND SHOPPING IN AFGHANISTAN)
Brigid McConville is an award-winning author and journalist.
Michael McConville (YOUNG SOLDIER: IRISH VINTAGE OF '99 and GENERAL TEMPLER'S CAPITOL IDEA)
After leaving the Malayan Civil Service, Michael joined HM Diplomatic Service and was Consul-General in Zagreb from 1974 to 1977. He is the author of A small war in the Balkans.
George Monbiot (THE HUMAN ZOO)
George is the author of Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain, and the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
Madeleine Morey (FAREWELL MY PRINCE)
Madeleine lives in Somerset and has a vague recollection of bringing up two children and running a small business. She co-founded a local feminist magazine and writes medical stuff for Internet sites.
James Mountford (CHILDREN)
James died of a heroin overdose after struggling with addiction for some years. His wife Christelle and the 'babas' -- Connor and 13-month-old Rhiannon -- were staying with his dad. As soon as they got a council flat, James was going to move back in, provided he was 'clean'. He loved his family and was lonely without them. It was Catch-22: to stop the pain of his loneliness he turned to heroin, which pushed him further away.
Brandon Nordin (SHAKESPEARE IN THE RUFF)
Brandon's an Anglo-American living just north of San Francisco. His work bridges the computer and publishing industries. On weekends he can usually be found butchering wood in the garage, growing mud in the garden or in the hospital emergency room due to an error in one of the aforementioned pursuits.
Tim Nuttall (CATS WITH STIFF LEGS and PERSPECTIVE FROM THE TOP OF A BUS )
Tim is, literally, a hip doctor. If you fancy a replacement, he's yer only man. He's also a successful screenwriter.
Polly Adams Papsadore (A VIEW FROM CAPE COD)
Polly is taking a break from her career in high tech marketing and is pregnant with her first child. When she's not hanging out with her Labrador retriever Margie and marmalade tom cats Tigger and Milo, she's gardening, writing consumer complaint letters, and taking long walks along Cape Cod's beautiful beaches.
Steve Penn (Cliff Pypard (THE VIEW FROM WOOTTON BASSETT)
Cliff Pypard is a woodman and tends two country churchyards in Wiltshire. He writes science fiction.
Adam Roberts (WHO KILLED THE SPACE RACE? and SOMEWHAT LIKE A CAMERA LUCIDA)
Adam has published a number of academic books, and has written two science fiction novels, Salt (Victor Gollancz 2000), which was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award, and On (Gollancz 2001).
Stephen Roe (AN INTERPRETATION OF LOVE)
Stephen is an artist and sculptor.
Hannele Rubin (CYCLING THROUGH HELL)
Hannele has written travel and business articles for the New York Post and various US magazines.
Steven Severin (SHANTY)
Steven was a founder member of Siouxie and the Banshees. Since the decision to disband the Banshees, he has released three albums. The Twelve Revelations (Oneiron Books), from which 'Shanty' is taken, is available from www.stevenseverin.com.
John Shearlaw (ABSOLUTE PANDAEMONIUM, HIDING IN THE LIMELIGHT and THE SEX PISTOLS ON FILM)
John is a music journalist, author of The Slanguage of Sex and authority on punk music.
Alan Smithee (LIFE ON MARS)
Clearly a pseudonym for one or more people...
Bugg Z Spider (MADVERTISEMENT )
No one really knows much about Bugg Z Spider. Arriving on the literature scene sometime during the 21st century, Bugg has created quite a reputation for saying things out loud that the rest of us only think quietly to ourselves. He is a staff writer for Barking Spider Entertainment and is currently finishing his first screenplay, entitled Sperm Burglars.
Stagedoor Johnny (HOT TO TROT, PRIVATE FRASER GOES TO MOSCOW and reviews of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, FLAMINGOS and GOD ONLY KNOWS)
An obvious pseudonym...
Martin Village (TONE'S TONE, LONDON CALLING..., WORD UP, ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS and CLOSE TO THE BONE)
Martin is a screenwriter and lives in London with his wife Julia, a Jungian analyst, their two kids, and a cat.
David Wallis (WILL THE SMOKE EVER CLEAR? and MADISON AVENUE PUTS SWAMIS IN A SPIN)
David contributes to publications including The New York Observer, Wired and The Washington Post.
Sara Wheeler (HOXHA'S CONCRETE LEGACY)
Sara is a broadcaster and writer living in London. Her travel writing includes Travels in a thin country: A journey through Chile (1995) and Terra incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1997).
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (THE BIGGER PICTURE)
Elisabeth is a psychoanlayst practicing in New York City. She is the author of many books, including biographies of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud, Creative Characters, The Anatomy of Prejudices, Subject To Biography, and, most recently (co-authored with Faith Bethelard) Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart.
