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Cal Flyn
Writer Cal Flyn discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Cal Flyn’s first book Thicker Than Water was published in 2016. It deals with the colonisation of Australia and questions of inherited guilt. Her second book, Islands
David Spiegelhalter
David Spiegelhalter discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter is Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the University of Cambridge, which aims to improve the way th
Brooke Allen
Brooke Allen discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Brooke Allen has a PhD in English from Columbia University. She writes frequently for newspapers and magazines and has published two volumes of literary essays as well as
Deirdre Mask
Deirdre Mask discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Deirdre Mask is a lawyer, a writer and sometime academic. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Economist, Lit Hub, The Harvard Law
Peter Gatrell
Peter Gatrell discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Peter Gatrell teaches modern history at the University of Manchester. His books include a trilogy on refugee history: the prize-winning book A Whole Empire Walking: Refug
Lucy Jones
Lucy Jones discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist. She previously worked at NME and the Daily Telegraph, and her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth,
Ali Thurm
Ali Thurm discusses six things with Ivan which she thinks should be better known. Ali is a novelist, poet and teacher. After balancing a career in primary teaching with writing part time, she was taken on by the literary agency Emily Sweet Associates in
Stories about writers
Ivan Wise discusses six things which he thinks should be better known, on the theme of Stories about Writers. The rehearsals for Pygmalion https://www.stuckinabook.com/the-truth-about-pygmalion-by-richard-huggett/ Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writi
Daisy Dunn
Daisy Dunn discusses six things with Ivan which she thinks should be better known. Daisy is a classicist and critic and author of, mostly recently, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome, an
Adam Macqueen
Private Eye journalist and novelist Adam Macqueen discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. You can find more about Adam at https://adammacq.wordpress.com. Adam’s political thriller Beneath the Streets is available now. If you