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THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT, INTERVIEW OR FOR WRITING PIECES ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS.
ANNE APPLEBAUM studied Russian at Yale and International Relations and East European politics at the London School of Economics and St Antony's College, Oxford. She has been a writer and editor at the Economist, deputy editor at the Spectator, and political editor and columnist for the Evening Standard and Sunday Telegraph. She is now a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. She is the author of Gulag - A History of the Soviet Camps (Allen Lane, May 2003).
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
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LINDSEY BAREHAM has made her name as a restaurant critic and food writer. She has written numerous cookery books, most notably In Praise of the Potato and Onions Without Tears. Her latest title is A Wolf in the Kitchen (2000). She is a freelance food writer and broadcaster and has a daily recipe column in the Evening Standard. She was also food adviser to the BBC TV series Pie in the Sky. She is available for comment or interview on any food related matter. She lives in London. CONTACT: Anwen Hooson
TEL: 020 7010 3273599 anwen.hooson@penguin.co.uk
SIMON BARON-COHEN is a professor at Cambridge University in the fields of psychology and psychiatry and is also the co-director of the Autism Research Centre there. He has carried out research into both autism and sex differences, over a twenty year career. He is the author of Mindblindness and The Essential Difference -Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (Allen Lane, May 2003).
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
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sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
ANTONY BEEVOR is the triple-award-winning author of the massive bestseller Stalingrad. Jean-Jacques Annaud filmed the acclaimed Enemy at the Gates starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris, and is in close contact with Beevor. Beevor's new book is Berlin, published April 2002. He can discuss anything on twentieth-century history, especially military history. He lives in London SW6. CONTACT: Amelia Fairney TEL: 020 7010 3247
amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
RICHARD BENTALL is Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester. His book, Madness Explained - Psychosis and Human Nature will be published by Allen Lane in May 2003.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
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emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
PHILLIP BOBBITT served as an advisor in the White House, the Senate and the State Department, and held several senior posts at the National Security Council. He is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas and a historian of nuclear strategy. He is the author of The Shield of Achilles.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
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emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
HESTON BLUMENTHAL Heston Blumenthal is chef-propietor of The Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, which recently received its Michelin star. Blumenthal is fast becoming recognised as one of the best chefs in Britain and through molecular gastronomy and his uniquely scientific approach to cookery, he is challenging preconceptions about every aspect of food. His book, FAMILY FOOD, is an innovative guide to get children cooking in the kitchen. blumenthal is the recipe writer for Guardian Weekend magazine and has presented a seres on the Discovery Channel on the science of food. CONTACT: Abbie Sampson
TEL: 020 7010 3273
abbie.sampson@penguin.co.uk
ALAIN DE BOTTON Journalist, writer and TV presenter, De Botton's new book The Art of Travel will be published June 2002. He is author of the bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life. He lives in London W14.
CONTACT: Katherine Stroud
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katherine.stroud@penguin.co.uk
SARAH BRADFORD is a historian and biographer. Her previous books include America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2001), Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of The New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), George VI (2002) and Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (2002). She lives in London SW6 and is available for interview or to write pieces about anything relating to the books mentioned above. CONTACT: Amelia Fairney TEL: 020 7010 3247 &n bsp; amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
DAVID CANNADINE is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University, New York. Among other appointments he is a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and a Commissioner of English Heritage. He is the author of Ornamentalism and In Churchill's Shadow.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
BRIAN CATHCART Formally Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday, he is a full-time writer and author of Jill Dando: Her life and Death. his award winning book The Case of Stephen Lawrence is now widley considered to be the definitive document on the case. He is available to talk about both cases, or matters relating to race and the police. His new work, The Fly in the Cathedral, which concerns the splitting of the atom, is out in February 2004. Brian lives in London N10.
CONTACT: Katherine Stroud
TEL: 020 7010 3254
katherine.stroud@penguin.co.uk
ANNIE CAULFIELD Originally from Northern Ireland and now living in London, Annie Caulfield has written and broadcast for BBC radio travel programmes on a variety of destinations, including Egypt, Jordan, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Italy and Spain. She is also a script-writer, whose work includes episodes of This Life. Penguin will publish her latest book Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi in April 2002. Her most recent trip to Benin, West Africa, was as adviser and guide to Spice Girl Mel B for her Channel 4 documentary, Mel B Voodoo Princess. Annie is available for comment or to write pieces on any of the above destinations, but particularly Benin.
CONTACT: Katherine Stroud
TEL: 020 7010 3254
katherine.stroud@penguin.co.uk
JIM CRACE is the recipient of a multitude of awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His highly acclaimed new book, SIX, was published in September 2003. He is available for comment on all matters relating to literature, the modern novel and literary prizes. He lives in Birmingham.
CONTACT: Amelia Fairney
TEL: 020 7010 3247
amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
GREG CRITSER is the author of Fat Land, to be published in Allen Lane in June 2003. He lives in Pasadena, California.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher
TEL: 020 7010 3150
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL is one of the UK's leading experts on language. He is the author of Language Play and The Penguin Dictionary of Language, co-author of Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion (June 2002) and editor of The New Penguin Encyclopedia (September 2002). He is available for comment on issues concerning English and language in general.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
BARRY CUNLIFFE is Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford University. He is a well-known personality in this field, appearing recently on the popular BBC1 programme, Surviving the Iron Age. He is the author of many books including The Ancient Celts and The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek. He is an active archaeologist and is involved in several digs each year.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie - Publicity Manager
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
ROBERT DALLEK has taught at Columbia, UCLA and Oxford. He is currently a Professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including his classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant. He has won the Bancroft Prize for American history, among numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching. The first authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy to be written in four decades, John F. Kennedy - An Unfinished Life 1917-1963.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
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sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
PAUL DAVIES is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, based in South Australia. He works in the fields of cosmology, gravitation, and quantum field theory, with particular emphasis on black holes and the origin of the universe. He is the author of some twenty award-winning books, including The Last Three Minutes, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution and How To Build A Time Machine.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
DANIEL C. BENNETT is a distinguished philosopher at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of Freedom Evolves, Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Ideas.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher
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rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
TOM DEVINE is University Research Professor and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. The follow-up to Devine's enormously successful The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000, entitled Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815 will be published by Allen Lane in October 2003.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher
TEL: 020 7010 3150
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
HELEN DUNMORE is an award-winning novelist and poet. A Spell Of Winter won the Orange Prize, The Siege was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 2001 and Mourning Ruby was published in September 2003 to great acclaim. She is also a children's novelist and short-story writer, and is available for comment on all matters relating to literature, publishing and literary awards. She lives in Bristol.
CONTACT: Lucy Chavasse
TEL: 020 7010 3288
lucy.chavasse@penguin.co.uk
TERRY EAGLETON is Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University. His books include Literary Theory, a trilogy on Irish culture, several plays, the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film Wittgenstein, and an autobiography, The Gatekeeper (Penguin 2001). His book, After Theory which traces the rise and fall of high theory against the historical backdrop of the 1960s and 1990s, exploring the cultural and political factors that brought it to birth, will be published by Allen Lane in September 2003.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
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emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
BILL EMMOTT is the editor of The Economist. His books include The Sun Also Sets and 20:21 Vision - The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
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sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
RICHARD J. EVANS is professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are In Defence of History and Telling Lies About Hitler. The Coming of the Third Reich will be published by Allen Lane in October 2003.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
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NIALL FERGUSON is Professor of Political and Financial History at the University of Oxford and best-selling author of The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus and Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World.
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KATE FIGES is a journalist, book reviewer and has also featured extensively on the radio. She has written Because of Her Sex: The Myth of Equality For Women in Britain, the highly acclaimed Life After Birth and her latest work, Terrible Teens, was published last year. She is available for comment on all matters relating to the arts, but also issues of feminism, childbirth and parenthood. She lives in London N16.
CONTACT: Lucy Chavasse
TEL: 020 7010 3288
lucy.chavasse@penguin.co.uk
ORLANDO FIGES is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia. He is writing books on Stalin and on the Crimean War.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
RICHARD FLETCHER A highly respected medieval historian and author of many books, including Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England. His critics acclaim him as a fascinating storyteller and Bloodfeud is among many other things a wonderful recreation of life in eleventh-century England. Fletcher has just retired as Professor of History at the University of York and is available for comment on any aspect of medieval history.
CONTACT: Lousie Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
NICCI FRENCH is the husband and wife writing team of Sean French and Nicci Gerrard. They write bestselling psychological thrillers whilst pursuing their individual writing careers and raising a family of four children. Land of the Living, their latest bestseller, will be available in paperback from November 2003. Film and TV adaptations of two previous Nicci French novels, Killing Me Softly (starring Joseph Fiennes and Heather Graham) and The Safe House (starring Geraldine Sommerville from Cracker and Robert Bathurst from Cold Feet) are due for release in the UK spring 2002. Both Sean French and Nicci Gerrard are available for comment and interview. They live in Suffolk.
CONTACT: Jessica Ward
TEL: 020 7010 3259
jessica.ward@penguin.co.uk
ED GLINERT was born in Hackney and supports Arsenal. The author of The Literary Guide to London, he writes a regular column for Time Out on the streets of London and leads a variety of walks for a major London walking tours company. His book, The London Compendium --Exploring a Hidden Metropolis will be published by Allen Lane in November 2003.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
ANDREW GRAHAM-DIXON has twice won the Hawthornden Prize for writing about art and has made two six-part BBC television series, A History of British Art and Renaissance. He is now at work on a major new biography of Caravaggio. His book, In The Picture -The Year in Art will be published by Allen Lane in November 2003. He is writing a biography of Carvaggio.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
JONATHAN GREEN is a writer and broadcaster, and the author of the Cassell Dictionary of Slang. He worked as a journalist for the underground press in the 1960s, and has been collecting slang terms since 1980. His book, The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Slang will be published in September 2003.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
SUSAN GREENFIELD is a distinguished scientist, broadcaster, writer and best-selling author of The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin). She is a Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford, and Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Her new book, Tomorrow's People - How 21st-Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel will be published by Allen Lane in September 2003.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
JOHN GRIBBIN is an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge and is currently a visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. He is the acclaimed author of many popular science books, including In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, Stardust and Science: A History.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
SHEILA HALE Sheila Hale is a travel writer and journalist, who has written for a number of American and British publications. She is the author of The Man Who Lost his Language about the aphasia suffered by her husband following a stroke.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
PETER HENNESSY A journalist for twenty years, Peter is now the Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of many highly acclaimed books. The insiders' insider, Peter's books take us to the heart of Westminster and reveal a number of intriguing workings of Whitehall and the government the past sixty years. His latest book, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War is based on the immensely sensitive cold war files which are only now reaching the public domain. The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders is the definitive book on this subject. He is a regular guest on BBC Radio 4 and has presented two series. He lives in London and is available for comment or interview on contemporary issues, in particular political issues.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
SIMON JENKINS writes a twice-weekly column for The Times and a weekly column for the London Evening Standard. He has edited the Evening Standard and The Times, and has written books on politics and the history and architecture of London. He has been deputy chairman of English Heritage (1985-90) and chairs the buildings Books Trust. England's Thousand Best Houses, the illustrated selection of the finest houses in the country, is the successor to his bestseller England's Thousand Best Churches and will be published by Allen Lane in October 2003.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
LISA JEWELL studied and worked in art and fashion before turning her hand to writing. Her first book, Ralph's Party, a romantic comedy set amongst twenty-somethings in contemporary London was famously lauded by the poet Tom Paulin on the Late Review and went on to become a major bestseller. Lisa Jewell her fourth novel, Freind of the Family, was published in spring 2003. She is available for comment and articles on all matters relating to contemporary culture and fashion. She lives in London NW6.
CONTACT: Jessica Ward
TEL: 020 7010 3259
jessica.ward@penguin.co.uk
COLIN JONES is Professor of History at Warwick University. His many books include The Charitable Imperative (1989), The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1989), The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1993), The Medical World of Early Modern France (with Lawrence Brockliss: 1997) and An Age of Cultural Revolution: Britain and France 1750-1820 (co-edited with Dror Wahrman: 2002). He is also author of Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress, published by National Gallery Publications.
CONTACT: Jessica Ward
TEL: 020 7010 3259
jessica.ward@penguin.co.uk
MARTIN JONES is author of The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and The Search for Ancient DNA, published by Allen Lane in 2001. He has been at the forefront of bio-archaeological research for twenty-five years, and is the first holder of the George Pitt-Rivers Professorship of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University. He is available for comment on cutting-edge developments in archaeology. He lives in Cambridge.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
JOHN KAY is one of Britain's leading thinkers about economics and business. He is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He has been Professor of Economics at the London Business School and Professor of Management at the University of Oxford. He has been director of an independent think tank, set up and sold a highly successful economic consultancy business and has been a director of several public companies. He now writes a fortnightly column for the Financial Times.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
FRANK KERMODE has been Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English at University College London, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. His previous books include The Genesis of Secrecy, An Appetite for Poetry, The Sense of An Ending, his autobiography, Not Entitled, the bestselling Shakespeare's Language and his autobiography Pleasing Myself. His book, Pieces of My Mind - Writings 1958-2002 will be published by Allen Lane in July 2003.
CONTACT: Preena Gadher TEL: 020 7010 3466
preena.gadher@penguin.co.uk
INDIA KNIGHT is an acclaimed columnist and food critic as well as being a regular contributor to magazines. Her first novel, My Life on a Plate was a critical and commercial success. Her new one, Don't You Want Me?, comes out in May 2002. She is available to comment on all matters relating to contemporary popular culture, food and the arts. She lives in London E8.
CONTACT: Lucy Chavasse
TEL: 020 7010 3288
amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
TOBY LITT has been hailed as 'the most exciting young talent on the literary scene' by the Independent, an opinion underlined by the great reviews received for his most recent novel, Finding Myself. A leading light amongst a new generation of talented literary writers, he is available for comment on modern pop culture and new and classic literature. He lives in London SE16.
CONTACT: Amelia Fairney
TEL: 020 7010 3247
amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
DIARMAID MACCULLOCH is a Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, and a Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His books include Tudor Church Militant, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (winner of the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize). His forthcoming book, A House Divided - A History of the European Reformations 1490-1700 will be published by Allen Lane in September 2003.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
MANJU MALHI has been described by the Guardian as 'the next Madhur Jaffrey'. She has been featured on BBC2's Food and Drink and has presented her own television show for the cable channel Taste, called Simply Indian. Manju's first book, Brit Spice, will be published in May 2002. In the book she has created a whole new concept of Brit-Indi cuisine, combining British ingredients with Indian spices. Manju Malhi lives in London and is available for interview and feature commission, or for comment on all aspects of Indian cuisine.
CONTACT: Jane Opoku TEL: 020 7010 3599
jane.opoku@penguin.co.uk
ROGER MCGOUGH 'The patron saint of poetry' (Carol Ann Duffy), Roger McGough was a member of pop group The Scaffold in the 60s. He first became famous as a poet with the publication of The Mersey Sound, which quickly became the biggest-selling Penguin poetry title ever. He has published many books for children and adults and he received the OBE in 1997 for services to poetry. His new collection, The Collected Poems comes out in November 2003, and he is available to talk about poetry, popular culture and children's literature.
CONTACT: Amelia Fairney
TEL: 020 7010 3247
amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
LEONARD MLODINOW received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology before moving to Hollywood to become a writer for Star Trek. He is also the author of Euclid's Window, a popular history of geometry. The author lives in South Pasadena, California. His new book, Some Time With Feynman will be published in June 2003.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
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sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
ED MOLONEY Is the author of A Secret History of the IRA. He currently lives in New York.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher
TEL: 020 7010 3150
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
MICHAEL MOORE He is the author of Stupid White Men and is the Oscar-winning director of Bowling for Columbine and the documentary Roger & Me. He lives in Michigan.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher
TEL: 020 7010 3150
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
GILDA O'NEIL is a novelist and author of the acclaimed My East End, an oral history of London's East End. Her new work, OUR STREET, East End Life in the Second World War was published in September. Having left school at fifteen, she returned to education as a mature student and now holds three degrees. She is the founder of Material Girls, a network of women writers. She is available for comment on all matters relating to London, women's and Jewish issues, and education. She lives in London E1.
CONTACT: Katherine Stroud
TEL: 020 7010 3254 katherine.stroud@penguin.co.uk
STEVEN PINKER is the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, How The Mind Works and The Blank Slate, all published by Penguin. He is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher
TEL: 020 7010 3150
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
MICHAEL RIDPATH was a venture capitalist and bond trader in Boston and the City before turning his hand to writing. Teaching himself to write with the aid of a self-help book, he went on to produce the international bestseller, Free To Trade. He is available for comment on all matters relating to trends in the world of city finance, the Internet boom, and crime writing. He lives in London NW11.
CONTACT: Jane Opoku TEL: 020 7010 3599
jane.opoku@penguin.co.uk
MARK ROSEMAN As well as being Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton, Mark is also an award-winning author. His highly acclaimed biography of a young German woman who ran from the SS and lived undercover in Nazi Germany, The Past in Hiding, won both the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History (2000) and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Non-Fiction (2001). His latest book, The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, is the first ever full account of the Wannsee Conference. He is a well-respected authority on the Holocaust and has presented programmes for BBC Radio 4. He is available to comment or interview on any Holocaust-related issue. He lives in Southampton.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher - Publicity Directore
TEL: 020 7010 3150
MOB: 07740 637109
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
ERIC SCHLOSSER is an award-winning investigative journalist. Most recently he has written on the war on drugs, the American prison system, the porn empire and the plight of migrant farm workers. He is best known for his expose of the fast food industry: Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World. Eric can comment on all aspects of fast food, from the environmental dangers and the agricultural compromises to the health risks and the chemical properties of the food. Eric lives in New York.
CONTACT: Rosie Glaisher - Publicity Director
TEL: 020 7010 3150
MOB: 07740 637109
rosie.glaisher@penguin.co.uk
WILL SELF is a novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He is available for comment on social, political and arts-related subjects. He lives in London SW8.
CONTACT: Amelia Fairney
TEL: 020 7010 3247
amelia.fairney@penguin.co.uk
RICHARD SENNETT teaches sociology at the London School of Economics and New York University. His books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone, The Corrosion of Character and Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
BRENDAN SIMMS is the author of Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia. He is Newton Sheehy Lecturer in International Studies, University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies at Peterhouse. He is available for comment on all issues concerning Bosnia, the current trials at the Hague and the Balkans in general. He lives in Cambridge.
CONTACT: Ruth Killick
TEL: 020 7010 3258
ruth.killick@penguin.co.uk
JOAN SMITH is the author of Moralities: How to End the Abuse of Money and Power in the Twenty-first Century (to be published as a Penguin paperback in May 2002). An award-winning columnist and author she is available to comment on issues of contemporary morality and social change. She lives in London.
CONTACT: Ruth Killick
TEL: 020 7010 3258
ruth.killick@penguin.co.uk
HILARY SPURLING is an award-winning and highly acclaimed biographer and theatre and literary critic. Hamish Hamilton published her controversial biography The Girl From the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell in May 2002. She is currently writing the second half of her two-book life of Matisse. She is available for comment on all matters related to the arts. She lives in London N7.
CONTACT: Anna Kenny-Ginard TEL: 020 7010 3279
anna.kenny-ginard@penguin.co.uk
JOSEPH STIGLITZ was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. His previous book, Globalization and Its Discontents, is an international bestseller. His forthcoming book, The Roaring Nineties - Seeds of Destruction will be published in Allen Lane in October 2003.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE His second novel, Are You Experienced?, a hilarious send-up of backpacking culture, has become a cult classic, while The Love Hexagon, his latest, was a top-ten bestseller. He is also a journalist and is available for comment or for writing articles on matters related to popular culture. He lives in London N4.
CONTACT: Katherine Stroud TEL: 020 7010 3254
katherine.stroud@penguin.co.uk
NICHOLAS THOMAS is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His book, Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook will be published by Allen Lane in September 2003.
CONTACT: Emma Williamson
TEL: 020 7010 3253
emma.williamson@penguin.co.uk
COLIN TUDGE is a writer and researcher, whose work has featured in the New Statesman, Farmer's Weekly, New Scientist and on the BBC. He is visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. His book, So Shall We Reap (How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendents are likely to be in serious trouble) will be published by Allen Lane in August 2003.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
SPENCER WELLS is a geneticist with visiting appointments at Oxford University and Harvard School of Health. He is the author of The Journey of Man.
CONTACT: Sarah Christie
TEL: 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
SUSAN WILLIAMS is a historian at the University of London and was Historical Advisor to the PRO on the recently released abdication papers and therefore she has uniquely been allowed unprecedented access to study these records prior to their release - and documents, letters and diaries straight from the Royal archives. She has published widely on history and literature, and her previous books include Ladies of Influence. The People's King - The True Story of the Abdication will be published by Allen Lane in August 2003.
CONTACT: Louise Ball
TEL: 020 7010 3156
louise.ball@penguin.co.uk
ALISON WOLF is currently based at the Institute of Education. She is critical of recent governments' education policy and in particular she questions the value of vocational education, which is a vogue initiative with the current government. Her book, Does Education Matter?: Myths about Education and Economic Growth examines the thorny issues of further education and looks at how Tony Blair's government are faring in this field. She lives in London and is available for comment on all aspects of education.
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PROFESSOR BLAIR WORDEN is author of Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil War and the Passions of Posterity, published by Allen Lane in 2001. He is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sussex. He is available for comment on all issues concerning the English Civil War. He lives in Oxford.
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