Penguin Adult Publicity is divided between Penguin General and Penguin Press.
Penguin General Publicity deals with all inquiries relating to the Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Viking and Michael Joseph imprints.
Penguin Press Publicity deals with issues relating to Allen Lane, all reference titles and the Classics and Modern Classics series.
Penguin also provides spokespeople for comment on a range of publishing issues.
PENGUIN PUBLISHING EXPERTS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW AND COMMENT.
Today, Penguin is the best-known publishing brand in Britain. It is also a worldwide publishing group with companies in the United States (Penguin Group (USA)), Australia and New Zealand, India, South East Asia and South Africa.
Penguin Books Ltd comprises a number of other famous names such as Warne (publisher of Beatrix Potter), Ladybird and Puffin on the children's side. Its adult imprints include Allen Lane, Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph, Viking and Fig Tree. In May 2000, Penguin acquired the global illustrated reference publisher, Dorling Kindersley. Penguin Group (UK) is based at 80 Strand, London WC2 along with its parent company, Pearson Plc.
PENGUIN PUBLISHING EXPERTS
STEPHANIE BARTON - MD Warne
Warne is the publisher of Beatrix Potter, Spot, Orlando, and the Flower Fairies. Stephanie is available for comment on children's publishing, brand management and the merchandising of children's books.
Tel: 020 7010 3114
Email: stephanie.barton@uk.penguingroup.comk
JEREMY ETTINGHAUSEN - Editor e-Penguin
Jeremy is the first editor of Penguin UK's e-books list, launched in September 2001. Penguin is the first major publisher in Britain to launch its own e-book programme which it sells though www.penguin.co.uk. He is available for comment about electronic publishing.
Tel: 020 7010 3382
Email: jeremy.ettinghausen@penguin.co.uk
HELEN FRASER - MD Penguin
Helen is head of Penguin's two adult divisions (Press and General) and of the children's division Puffin. Helen has also worked at HarperCollins Publishers and Reed Books. She is available for comment on all matters relating to publishing.
Tel: 020 7010 3240
Email: helen.fraser@uk.penguingroup.com
ADAM FREUDENHEIM - Publisher Penguin Classics
Publisher in charge of Penguin Classics. He is available for comment on Reference, Classics and Modern Classics.
Tel: 020 7010 3080
Email: adam.freudenheim@penguin.co.uk
JOHN HAMILTON - Art Director, Penguin General Division
John is responsible for all the artwork on books published by the Penguin General Division. It was his brain-child to recently re-design and publish a series of smaller-format classics with artwork by an eclectic range of young designers. He has also been instrumental in the design of Jamie Oliver's three massive best-selling cookery books. He is available for comment on all design related issues.
Tel: 020 7010 3360
Email: john.hamilton@uk.penguingroup.com
TONY LACEY - Publishing Director, Viking
Tony has worked for Penguin for many years. He is editor to Will Self, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell), Nick Hornby, William Boyd, and William Sutcliffe, to name a few. He is has media experience, and was recently interviewed on BBC's Newsnight. He is available for comment on any aspect of publishing.
Tel: 020 7010 3382
Email: tony.lacey@penguin.co.uk
LOUISE MOORE - Publishing Director, Michael Joseph
Louise is head of the Penguin's commercial hardback imprint, Michael Joseph. She is a specialist in the area of women's fiction. Her authors include Marian Keyes, Jane Green, Lisa Jewell and Sue Townsend.
Tel: 020 7010 3232
Email: louise.moore@penguin.co.uk
HELENA PEACOCK - Head of Legal
Helena covers all legal aspects of Penguin's publishing, including involvement in the recent trial of David Irving versus Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. She is available for comment on any legal aspects including copyright and libel.
Tel: 020 7010 3017
Email: helena.peacock@penguin.co.uk
JOANNA PRIOR - Group Marketing and Publicity Director / Head of Corporate PR
Joanna is Head of Publicity at Penguin and Head of Corporate PR for the group as a whole. A former editor of the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, she has also had wide experience as a book PR. She is available for comment on all matters relating to Penguin, its authors and any aspect of publishing and PR.
Tel: 020 7010 3250
Email: joanna.prior@penguin.co.uk
STUART PROFFITT - Publishing Director Penguin Press
Stuart is the Publisher of Allen Lane, the non-fiction literary imprint of Penguin Press Division. He has considerable experience as a literary publisher, having worked for many years at HarperCollins Publishers before moving to Penguin three years ago. He is available for comment on all aspects of publishing as well as matters relating to history, political and current affairs, and the arts. Authors on his list include: Simon Schama, Gitta Sereny, David Cairns, Christopher Andrew, George Walden, Larry Siedentop.
Tel: 020 7010 3159
Email: stuart.proffitt@penguin.co.uk
SIMON PROSSER - Publisher Hamish Hamilton
Simon is Publisher of Hamish Hamilton, and editor of a growing band of young, exciting contemporary authors. He is available for comment on all aspects of publishing. Authors on his list include: Zadie Smith, Alain de Botton, W.G. Sebald, Toby Litt, Paul Theroux and Hari Kunzru.
Tel: 020 7010 3281
Email: simon.prosser@penguin.co.uk
TOM WELDON - Managing Director Penguin General Books
Tom is MD for the Penguin General Division, which comprises three hardback imprints: Michael Joseph, Hamish Hamilton and Viking as well as Penguin paperbacks. He first commissioned Jamie Oliver. He is available to comment on all publishing-related matters.
Tel: 020 7010 3280
Email: tom.weldon@penguin.co.uk
SIMON WINDER - Publishing Director Penguin Press
Simon is a publishing director for Allen Lane and is available for comment on Penguin history, as well as modern classics. Other authors on his list include Niall Ferguson and Marianne Elliot.
Tel: 020 7010 3173
Email: simon.winder@penguin.co.uk
THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT, INTERVIEW OR FOR WRITING PIECES ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW is the co-author of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, published in 2006. His authorised history of MI5 will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ANNE APPLEBAUM is the author of A History of the Soviet Camps, published in 2003. Her latest book, The Anti-Civilisation will be published in 2010.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
SIMON BARON-COHEN is the author of The Essential Difference, published in 2004. His latest book, Zero Degrees of Empathy will be published in 2010.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
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, D-Day, is published in Spring 2009. He can discuss anything on twentieth-century history, especially military history. He lives in London SW6.
Contact: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
RICHARD BENTALL is the author of Madness Explained - Psychosis and Human Nature, published in 2004. His latest book, Doctoring the Mind will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
PHILLIP BOBBITT is the author of The Shield of Achilles (2003) and Terror and Consent (2008).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ALAIN DE BOTTON Journalist, writer and TV presenter, De Botton's new book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, is now published. He is author of the bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life. He lives in London W14.
Contact: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
JASON BRADBURY is the presenter of Five’s The Gadget Show and the author of the hit children's book Dot Robot. He is an expert on all things computing, including new technologies, gaming, e-readers and gadgets.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
DAVID CANNADINE is the author of Class in Britain (2000), Ornamentalism (2002) and In Churchill’s Shadow (2002).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
LUCY CAVENDISH has spent most of her life working in journalism for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian. Her Sunday Telegraph Stella Magazine column launched in Jan 2009. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband Michael and their four children. Penguin publish Lucy’s second novel Lost and Found in March 2009. Lucy can write almost anything, particularly the trials and tribulations of family life, marriage and relationships.
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
SARWAT CHADDA is the author of The Devil’s Kiss. He was brought up as a Muslim, and is now married to a vicar’s daughter. He is available to speak about general questions of ethnicity and the importance of ethnic characters/role models in children's literature.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
LAUREN CHILD is the author and illustrator behind the mega-hit Charlie and Lola. She is a UNESCO Artist for Peace and an expert in the field of high design illustration/collage and 1950's fashion and fabric.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL is the author of many book including The Penguin Dictionary of Language (1999), The English Language (2002), How Language Works (2007), The Penguin Book of Facts (2008), The Penguin Pocket Dicitonary of Quotations (2005), The Penguin Pocket Spelling Dictionary (2005) and The Stories of English (2005). He is also co-author of Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion (2002).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
CHARLIE CUMMING is the author of the bestselling thrillers Typhoon, A Spy by Nature, The Hidden Man and The Spanish Game. He also wrote the groundbreaking short story ‘The 21 Steps’ at www.wetellstories.co.uk. Charles is a student of the genre and can comment and write on all aspects of crime and thriller writing, especially Raymond Chandler in 2009, the 50th anniversary of his death.
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
ROBERT DALLEK is the author of John F. Kennedy (2004), Lyndon B. Johnson (2005) and Nixon and Kissinger (2008)
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
PAUL DAVIES is the author of many books including The Mind of God (2006),The Origins of Life (2006), About Time (2006), God and the New Physics (2006) and The Goldilocks Engima (2007). His latest book The Eerie Silence will be published in 2010.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
DANIEL C. DENNETT is the author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1996), Conciousness Explained (2003), Freedom Evolves (2004) and Breaking the Spell (2007).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ADRIAN DESMOND is one of the world’s leading authorities on Darwin's life. He has co-written a number of books with James Moore, including The Descent of Man (2004) and Darwin (1992). His latest book, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, was published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
STEPHEN DUBNER is the co-author of Freakonomics (2006). His new book is Superfreakonomics which will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
BILL EMMOTT is the author of Rivals, published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
RICHARD EVANS is the author of The Coming of the Third Reich (2004); The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 (2006) and The Third Reich at War (2008). He is also co-author of The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations (2004). His latest book The Penguin History of Europe will be published in 2010.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
NIALL FERGUSONis the author of many books including The House of Rothschild (2000), The Cash Nexus (2002), Colossus (2005), The Pity of War (2006), Empire (2007), War of the World (2007). His latest book, The Ascent of Money was published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ORLANDO FIGES is the author of Natasha’s Dance (2003). His latest book,The Whisperers, was published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
THOMAS FRIEDMAN is the author of The World is Flat (2007). His most recent book is Hot, Flat and Crowded, published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
DAVID GILMAN is the author of The Devil’s Breath and Ice Claw and is also an ex-para trooper. He is an expert on survival and has first hand knowledge of being a Para-trooper, Fire Fighter and A&E Driver.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
MORRIS GLEITZMAN is the author of Two Weeks with the Queen, Once and Then. He writes about serious issues in children's literature, including Aids, the Holocaust and Immigration.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
ED GLINERT is the author of many books including: The London Compendium (2004), East End Chronicles (2006), Literary London (2007), The Manchester Compendium (2008) and West End Chronicles (2008).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
PETER HENNESSYis the author of Never Again (2006) and Having it so Good (2007).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
JOHN GRAY is the acclaimed author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia 92008). His latest book Gray’s Anatomy, Selected Writings will be published by Allen Lane in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
SIMON JENKINSis the author of England’s Thousand Best Churches (2000), England’s Thousand Best Houses (2004), Thatcher and Sons (2007) and Wales (2008). His latest book Country Churches is published in 2009 as part of the English Journeys Series.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
COLIN JONES is the author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2003) and Paris (2006).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ROSS KEMP is the author of Gangs and Ganglands: Rio de Janeiro. He is the presenter of Sky One’s Gangs series and is an expert on gangs, violence among teenagers and docu-journalism.
Contact: Sophie Stott or Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3375 or 020 7010 3279
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
IAN KERSHAW is the author of Luck of the Devil: The Story of Operation Valkyrie, published in 2009. His other books include The 'Hitler Myth', his two volume Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, and Fateful Choices. He was knighted in 2002.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
JEFF KINNEY is the author and cartoonist behind the mega-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He is an expert on cartoons and graphic novels.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
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 latest book, The Thrift Book, was published in 2008. She is available to comment on all matters relating to contemporary popular culture, food and the arts. She lives in London.
Contact: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
STEVEN LEVITT is the co-author of Freakonomics (2006). His new book is Superfreakonomics, which will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
MICHAEL LEWIS is the author of Panic! (2008). His latest book The Big Short will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
GAEL LINDENFIELD has been a therapist and trainer for over thirty years. She is also the best-selling author of nineteen ground-breaking books on confidence building, assertive communication and managing feelings which have been translated into 34 languages. Her most recent book, Emotional Healing, is published by Penguin. Gael lives in London and Southern Spain. For further information about Gael Lindenfield and her talks, seminars and courses, please visit her website: www.gaellindenfield.com
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
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 book, I Play the Drums in a Bank Called OK. 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.
Contact: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
DIARMAID MACCULLOCH is the author of Tudor Church Militant (2001), Reformation (2004) and Christianty: The First Three Thousand Years, to be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
AGGIE MACKENZIE has worked on a number of national magazines and was associate editor in charge of the Good Housekeeping Institute. Her current work covers a variety of areas; aside from co-presenting How Clean is Your House?, she writes a column for The Times, frequently partakes in advertising campaigns and has appeared on many different programmes including Market Kitchen, The One Show and Dancing on Ice. Aggie is married, has two sons and lives in North London. When Aggie's not working, cleaning or tending to her allotment she loves to cook. Her books, alll published by Penguin, include How Clean is Your House, The Cleaning Bible (both co-authored with Kim Woodburn) and her latest, Ask Aggie (July 09).
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
ED MOLONEY is the author of The Secret History of the IRA, published in 2007.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
MICHAEL MOORE is the author of many books including The Official Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader (2004), Stupid White Men (2004), Dude, Where’s My Country (2004), Will They Ever Trust Us Again (2005) and Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ELEANOR MORAN is a BBC producer and has worked on Spooks, Rome, Hotel Babylon. Stick or Twist is her debut novel – Eleanor can comment and write brilliantly about relationships, dating, men and families. She lives in London.
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
BEVERLEY NAIDOO is the Carnegie Medal-winning author of The Other Side of Truth and Burn My Heart. She is available to speak on issues relating to Apartheid, South Africa and Colonialism.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
RICHARD OVERY is the author of Russia’s War (1999), Interrogations (2002), Battle of Britain (2004) and The Dictators (2005). His latest books 1939: Countdown to War and The Morbid Age will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
CHRIS PATTEN is the author of Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs (2005), a No 1 international best-seller. His latest book What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century was published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
JAN PIENKOWSKI is best known as the illustrator behind Meg and Mog. He was a child in Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising and is an expert on the art of silhouette and illustration.
Contact: Sophie Stott
Tel: 020 7010 3375
Email: sophie.stott@uk.penguingroup.com
STEVEN PINKER is the author of The Blank Slate (2003), How the Mind Works (2003), The Language Instinct (2003), The Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television (2008) and The Stuff of Thought (2008).
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
ANDREW ROBERTS is the author of Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Marshall and Alanbrooke (Allen Lane, 2008). His latest book, Beating Corporal Hitler: War on Every Front 1939 – 1945, will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
PATSY RODENBURG, OBE, is recognised as one of the world's leading voice and acting coaches. She is the founder of the Voice Department at London's Royal National Theatre and runs the Voice Department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She was the voice coach at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London for nine years and has taught voice and presence for all the leading theatre companies in the world. Her film credits include collaborations with such directors as Mike Nichols, Franco Zeffirelli and Sam Mendes. Patsy's work has extended beyond theatre, including teaching voice and communication to business executives and lecturing on vocal care and listening skills at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. She has given courses for teachers and politicians and has taught Shakespeare as Therapy in British prisons. Penguin publish two of her books, Presence and most recently Power Presentation (May 09). Visit her website at www.patsyrodenburg.com.
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
AMARTYA SEN is a Nobel prize winning economist and writer. He is also the author of The Argumentative Indian (2006) and Identity and Violence (2007). His new book The Idea of Justice will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
RICHARD SENNETT is the author of The Fall of Public Man (2003), Respect (2004). His latest book The Craftsman will be published in 2009.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
DR. HARRY SIDEBOTTOM teaches classical history at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Benet’s Halls and a lecturer at Lincoln College. He has an international reputation as a scholar, having published widely on ancient warfare, classical art and the cultural history of the Roman Empire. Originally from Newmarket in Suffolk, he now lives with his wife and two sons in Woodstock near Oxford. He can comment/ write almost anything on Ancient Rome and classical warfare.
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
BRENDAN SIMMSis the author of Unfinest Hour (2002). His latest book is Three Victories and a Defeat, published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
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Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
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: Jayde Lynch
Tel: 020 7010 3368
Email: jayde.lynch@uk.penguingroup.com
JOSEPH STIGLITZ is the author of Globalistion and Its Discontents (2003), The Roaring Nineties (2004), Making Globalisation Work (2007). His most recent book The Three Trillion Dollar War was published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
Tel: 020 7010 4989
Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, both published in 2008.
Contact: Lyndsey Ng
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Email: lyndsey.ng@uk.penguingroup.com
ANDREW TAYLOR is the award-winning author of a number of critically acclaimed crime novels, including the Lydmouth series, the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy (ITV’s Fallen Angel) and The American Boy, his bestselling historical novel which was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. He is the 2009 winner of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award. Andrew is a frequent spokesperson on Edgar Allen Poe, especially in this centenary year, as well as all aspects of crime and thriller writing.
Contact: Kate Cotton
Tel: 020 7010 3279
Email: kate.cotton@uk.penguingroup.com
DAN WADDELL is a trained journalist and has written for several national newspapers and worked at the Daily Telegraph. Dan has written several books on sport and popular culture and in 2003 he wrote the accompanying book to the hit BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are? Dan's interest in genealogy and the dark side of family history, combined with his passion for crime novels, led to the creation of The Blood Detective in 2008. His second novel, Blood Atonement is out in August 2009. Dan can write about genealogy and crime thriller writing.
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SPENCER WELLSis the author The Journey of Man (2003).
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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.
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