Francesca Martinez - Author of What the **** is Normal?!
Rebecca Frankel - Author of War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love
Geoff Dyer - Author of Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George HW Bush
Olga Levancuka - Author of How To Be Selfish (And Other Uncomfortable advice)’
Kristie Macrakis - Author of ‘Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda’
Monica Porter - Author of Raven – My Year of Dating Dangerously
Joanna Rakoff - Author of My Salinger Year
Tessa Boase - Author of The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
Nathan Deuel  - Author of Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East
Mark Stein - Author of American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why
Stephen Dubner - Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter about Almost Everything
Linsday Gasik - Author of The Durian travel guide to Thailand
Ed Conway - Author of The Summit:  The Biggest Battle of the Second World War - fought behind closed doors
Mary Beard, author of Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Ramita Navai - Author of City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran’