Carrie Gibson - Author of Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day
Dr Pamela Cox - Author of Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter
Paul Carter - Author of Ride like Hell and You'll Get There: Detours into Mayhem
Paul Sorrentino - Author of  Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire
John Micklethwait - Co Author The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
Dr Michael Scott - Author of Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
Jonathan Rose - Author of The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
Tara McKelvey - Author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
Kerry Brown - Author of The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China
Gaia Vince - Author of Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
Professor John Belchem - Author of Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool
Robert Proctor - Author of The Nazi War on Cancer
John McHugo - Author of Syria: From the Great War to Civil War
Thalma Lobel  - Author of Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence
Dan Davies - Author of In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
Caroline Moorehead - Author of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Peter Day - Author of Klop: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy
Paul Charles - Author of The Lonesome Heart is Angry