Sharon Mather had a successful career in fundraising for the Arts and Higher Education sectors including the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and Churchill College, Cambridge, where she was Development Fellow from 2006 until 2014, before achieving a Distinction in M.A. Biography with the University of Buckingham in 2020.  She was also awarded the University Prize for the Best Performance in Biography.  In 2021 she was short-listed for the Tony Lothian Prize for Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters & Players, published by Unicorn Publishing in October 2023.  She is represented by Charles Walker at United Agents: https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/sharon-mather

Jane McVeigh has written about twentieth century British literary biography in her first book, In Collaboration with British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations (2017). Jane is Honorary Research Fellow in English & Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton and an Associate Lecturer for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. She is working on a biography of a famous yet misrepresented twentieth century author who wrote for both children and adults, Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William (Palgrave, forthcoming 2022). The biography aims to take Richmal Crompton Lamburn, the woman and the writer, out of the shadows. It will reflect on the allegedly uneventful life of this prodigious and complex writer whose stories have been popular with millions of readers across the world.

Emily Midorikawa is the author of Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice. She is also the co-author of A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontё, Eliot and Woolf  (written with Emma Claire Sweeney, and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood). Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has appeared in publications includingThe Times, TIME and the Washington Post. She teaches on the writing programme at New York University London.

Michael Moran has led a varied and adventurous life. Born and educated in Australia and Europe, he spent his twenties wandering the islands of Polynesia and Melanesia. He finally settled among the descendants of the Bounty mutiny on Norfolk Island off the eastern Australian coast. As the Broadcasting Officer for the Administration, he established the radio station. pursuing a career in music, he studied the piano and harpsichord professionally in London for many years, facilitated by his academic work. He has lectured on a variety of subjects, ranging from the music of Fryderyk Chopin and François Couperin to British art and architecture and the colonial history and culture of the South Pacific region. His historical novel, Point Venus, set in the former British penal settlement on Norfolk Island, was successfully published in Australia. (Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney 1998). Posted for some years to Poland shortly after the fall of communism, his life-long fascination with Melanesia drew him to the work of the enigmatic Polish anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski. This encounter and an abiding interest in the German Pacific Empire precipitated his latest return to the South Seas. Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific was the fruit of this expedition through the island provinces of Papua New Guinea (HarperCollins, London 2003 and Flamingo 2004). The book was short-listed for the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His book A Country in the Moon : Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland was published by Granta in London in 2008. This cultural odyssey and residence book chronicles his adventures in Poland immediately following the fall of communism and the transition to the market economy. It remains popular and has become the classic introduction to the country for the intelligent general reader. In April 2017 Moran was awarded a Distinguished Achievement Award in Travel Literature for this work jointly by the University of Florida and the Eric Friedheim Foundation in New York. In 2011 he was awarded a literary grant by the Australia Council to write the biography of his grand uncle, the once internationally famous but now forgotten Australian concert pianist Edward Cahill. The book entitled The Pocket Paderewski: The Beguiling Life of the Australian Concert Pianist Edward Cahill was published in November 2016 by Australian Scholarly Publishing. Historic recordings of Chopin and Liszt made by Cahill in the 1950s are available through an internet link printed in the book. http://www.michael-moran.net/paderewski-book.htm  A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a lecturer there and an incessant traveller, he lives and works in Warsaw, Sydney and London

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her first book, The Woman Who Saved the Children, won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize, and The Spy Who Loved, now optioned by Universal Studios, led to Clare being decorated with Poland’s national honour, the Bene Merito. Clare’s third book, The Women Who Flew for Hitler, tells the extraordinary story of two women at the heart of Nazi Germany, whose choices put them on opposite sides of history. Clare reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today. A popular public speaker, she has given a TEDx talk at Stormont, spoken at the Houses of Parliament, Royal Albert Hall, Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum and British Library, as well as many festivals. Recent TV includes the BBC’s Rise of the Nazis, and the D-Day 75 coverage, Newsnight, David Jason’s Secret Service, and Adolf & Eva, Love & War