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Type: Author

Len Deighton

Len Deighton is a British author of books on cookery and military history, but is best known for his spy novels

Type: Judge

Philip Toynbee

Philip Toynbee was a journalist, public intellectual and novelist who, as a student communist in 1930s Oxford, was once beaten up by Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts.

Type: Judge

Olivier Todd

Olivier Todd is a French-born novelist, author, television journalist and war correspondent who, as the biographer of Albert Camus, has attacked the ‘logorrhoea’ of fashionable French penseurs.

Type: Judge

Rachel Billington

Lady Rachel Mary Billington OBE is a British author.

Type: Judge

Francine Stock

Francine Stock is a radio and television presenter and novelist.

Type: Judge

David Sexton

David Sexton is the literary editor of the Evening Standard and radio reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph.

Type: Judge

Stella Rimington

Dame Stella Rimington DCB was an author and former Director General of MI5

Type: Judge

Peter Stothard

Sir Peter Stothard is a British author, journalist and critic.

Type: Judge

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin is one of Britain’s most eminent biographers. At the time of the 1980 prize, however, she had published just one book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Type: Judge

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin is an English writer, journalist and literary critic.