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Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson is a critic, author and broadcaster whose rightful place as ruler of Britain’s late-night cultural TV shows was acknowledged when he was spoofed by Viz magazine.
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Grey Gowrie
Lord Gowrie was variously a poet, an art dealer, assistant to Robert Lowell, Minister for the Arts under Mrs Thatcher, and clan chief of Clan Ruthven in Scotland.
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Anne Chisholm
Anne Chisholm holds the distinction of being a distinguished biographer, a former Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and having a goat named after her by Jilly Cooper in her novel Jump.
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Nicholas Clee
Nicholas Clee is a literary journalist and former editor of the Bookseller who describes himself as a ‘hopeless piano player, sporadically hopeful West Ham supporter, and no judge of horseracing form’.
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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.
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John Bayley
John Bayley was an Oxford University professor of English and the husband of the 1978 Booker Prize winner Iris Murdoch. His memoir Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch was later filmed.
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Julia Neuberger
Julia Neuberger is a life peer and Britain’s second female rabbi, a role from which she retired in 2020. She famously distanced herself from James Kelman’s 1993 Booker Prize win.
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Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor is a journalist, broadcaster and founding editor of The Scottish Review of Books, as well as being ‘half of the underperforming Scottish team on Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz’
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James Wood
James Wood is a critic, novelist and literary academic who divides other littérateurs, and about whom no piece has been written that doesn’t include the phase: ‘pre-eminent critic of his generation’.
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George Walden
George Walden is a former diplomat and MP with an intimate knowledge of both China and Russia. From 2012 to its demise in 2017 he was the chair of the Russian Booker Prize.