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Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls (1960), was banned and burned in her native Ireland, although she was later described by Philip Roth as ‘the most gifted woman now writing in English’.
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Gillian Reynolds
Gillian Reynolds has the distinction of being a radio reviewer for national newspapers for more than 50 years. She still believes radio to be ‘a medium of the future not a dusty relic’.
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Susannah Clapp
Susannah Clapp was a founding editor, with Karl Miller, of the London Review of Books and, since 1997, has been the theatre critic of the Observer, a job in which she thought she’d last ‘a year’.
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Jeremy Treglown
Jeremy Treglown is an academic, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a literary biographer. The latter is a form, he says ‘whose subjectivity can in the end only be overcome by dialogue’.
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Ian Jack
Ian Jack is a journalist, author and former newspaper editor who believes that ‘Journalism is often at its most effective when it remembers its humblest duty - to witness and record.’
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Gerald Kaufman
Sir Gerald Kaufman was a British politician and author.
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Roy Foster
Professor Robert 'Roy' Foster is an Irish historian and academic.
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Russell Celyn Jones
Russell Celyn Jones is a British writer and academic.
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James Heneage
James Heneage is an historical fiction writer, and the co-founder of the Ottakar’s bookshop chain.
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Frances Wilson
Frances Wilson is an English author, academic and critic.