Graham Page graduated in Maths and Economics from the University of Sussex in 1967, and in Humanities with Literature from the Open University in 2015.  After a career in the software and manufacturing industries he is now writing the authorised biography of Barbara Skelton. His proposal for this book was shortlisted for the 2011 Tony Lothian Prize. Graham lives in Lincolnshire, not too far from the village of Widmerpool.

Richard Perceval Graves (born 21 December 1945) is an English biographer, poet and lecturer, best known for his three-volume biography of his uncle Robert von Ranke Graves. He was educated at Copthorne School, Sussex (1954-1959); Charterhouse (1959-1964) and St. John’s College, Oxford (1964-1968). At Oxford, he read Modern History under K.V. (now Sir Keith) Thomas and  H.M. (later Sir Howard) Colvin. He then taught at several schools including Harrow (1969) and Ellesmere College (from 1971) until 1973, the year in which he became a full-time writer.

 

Graves is the author of more than nineteen books, including biographies of T.E. Lawrence, A.E. Housman, the Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys) and Richard Hughes. He has written a number of other books on a variety of subjects including programming and company history. In 1999 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship. From 2000 to 2019 he worked as Marketing Director of a new media company GWS Media Ltd., while also establishing a reputation as a lecturer, and Chairing the Powys Society from 2001 to 2005. He is currently putting the finishing touches to a ghosted autobiography of the late socialite Nicky Samuel, while working on a somewhat eccentric memoir of his own life.

Monica Porter was born in Budapest, grew up in New York, and has been living in London since the Seventies. She is a freelance journalist who has been published in dozens of British newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Mail, for which she has been writing the popular weekly Missing and Found column for the past twenty years. She is also the author of five non-fiction books. Her book Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War recounts the exploits of her mother, who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Her sixth book – about youngsters involved in anti-Nazi resistance throughout the occupied countries of Europe – is being published in April 2020 by Pen & Sword Books.

Jay Prosser is Professor in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he specialises in Jewish studies and creative nonfiction. He is author most recently of Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns (2024; Black Spring Press), a family memoir which was shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize and winner of the Hazel Rowley Prize for Biography. His previous books include the first study of transsexual life writing, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (1998; Columbia UP), a book that continues to sell very well 25 years after publication; and Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (2004; Minnesota UP), an exploration of how writers have used photographs in their own lives.

Website: www.jayprosser.com