Heather Waddell is an author, art critic, biographer and was a publisher. In 1980 She created the Art Guide series to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Madrid, Amsterdam, Glasgow and Australia. She sold the series to A&C Black in 1987, now part of Bloomsbury. Her books include : London Art and Artist’s Guide ( 13th edition due 2020); The Artists’ Directory- A handbook to the contemporary British art world ( 3 editions); The London Art World 1979-99; Henri Goetz- Fifty Years of Painting and many artist catalogues. She has contributed to L’Ecosse; lumiere, granit et vent and Londres ( Editions Autrement, France); The London Encyclopaedia ( 3 editions, Macmillan); Art Criticism in Africa; Blue Guide to Spain ( contemporary art section); Time Out’s guides to London and New York ( visual arts editor of many editions in the 1990s). She has written as an art critic for Vie des Arts ( London correspondent 1979-89), The Herald ( London art critic 1980-84), The Independent and Independent on Sunday and The Times, as well as international art magazines in the USA, France and Australia, and is a freelance art critic for BBC World TV news (2014-). Twenty of her artist/art world photo portraits in black and white are in the National Portrait Gallery photography collection. She gave a lecture on “ West End Families 1880-1970; When Glasgow was second city of the British Empire” at the West End Festival in 2018 and at Glasgow University in 2019.She has written “ Art Snakes and London Ladders”, an autobiography, but has decided against publication for a variety of reasons!

Vivien Whelpton has published a two-volume biography of Richard Aldington, founder member of the Imagist group, author of the best-selling war novel Death of a Hero (1929) and subsequently notorious for his iconoclastic 1955 biography of T.E. Lawrence. The first volume of Vivien挞遨濯s biography, Richard Aldington, Poet, Soldier and Lover, 1911 挞遨逡 1929, was short-listed for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2011 and published by Lutterworth Press in 2014. Volume Two, Richard Aldington, Novelist, Biographer and Exile, 1930 挞遨逡 1962, also published by Lutterworth Press, appeared in July 2019.挞遨濯

Jane Winter is a retired award-winning human rights activist who has written a biography of Ka Cox (friend of Virginia Woolf and lover of Rupert Brooke) and her husband Will Arnold-Forster (politician, artist, and gardener, and second husband to Ruth Turner, widow of George Mallory, lost of Everest).  She is looking for an agent/publisher for this reincarnation of an undeservedly forgotten, striking couple.  She is currently writing a book dissecting the myth that developed around Rupert Brooke after his untimely death and the in-fighting among a number of vested interests over his legacy.  She can be contacted via her website: