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Union J

Union J shot to stardom after reaching the X Factor finals in 2012. Jaymi, Josh and JJ had originally auditioned as a three piece called Triple J, but Louis selected soloist George to join the group, recognising their potential as a four. They have since played to sold out arenas around the country on the X Factor tour, signed a record deal with Sony Music and recorded their first single to be released in June 2013.

Union J

Peter J Bentley

Professor Peter Bentley is one of the most creative thinkers in computer science, working with scientists of all different disciplines to model virtual experiments. He is Honorary Reader and Senior College Teacher at the Department of Computer Science, University College London and is known for his prolific research covering all aspects of Evolutionary Computation and Digital Biology. He is the author of the popular science books The Book of Numbers (Cassell Illustrated), Digital Biology (Simon and Schuster USA), and the academic books The PhD Application Handbook, Evolutionary Design by Computers, Creative Evolutionary Systems and On Growth, Form and Computers. He is a contributing editor for Wired UK, and a regular contributor to programming for the BBC and Discovery Channel.

Peter J Bentley

William J Dobson

William J. Dobson is politics and foreign affairs editor for Slate. He has been an editor at Foreign Affairs and Newsweek International. Under his direction, Foreign Policy won the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2007 and 2009. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Washington, DC.

William J Dobson

Paul J. Zak

Paul Zak is the founding Director of the Centre for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He has degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University, a Ph.D. in economics from University of Pennsylvania, and post-doctoral training in neuroimaging from Harvard. Professor Zak is an expert in neuroeconomics, a field he helped create, and is a recognised expert in oxytocin.

Paul J. Zak

J.Elle

J.Elle is an African American author and active advocate for marginalized voices in both publishing and her community. She is a well-known support in the #WritingCommunity on Twitter with over 13k+ highly engaged followers.

J.Elle

Malcolm Jack

William Beckford (1760-1844) inherited a large fortune and, at the age of nineteen, went on a tour of Holland, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy. He was a Member of Parliament and a traveller who spent large sums of money collecting rare books, curiosities and paintings for the embellishment of his Gothic Extravaganza, Fonthill Abbey, where he lived in opulent seclusion until forced by bankruptcy to sell it in 1822.

Malcolm Jack

Ian Jack

After working on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s, Ian Jack worked from 1970 to 1986 at the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited the paper from 1991 to 1995. Having been editor since 1995, he left Granta in 2007 and now writes regularly for the Guardian. He is the author of two books of non-fiction - Before the Oil Ran Out: Britian 1977-86 (1987) and The Crash That Stopped Britain (2001).

Ian Jack

Belinda Jack

Belinda Jack is the author of an acclaimed biography of George Sand and Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci.

Belinda Jack

Libby Jackson

Libby Jackson is one of Britain’s foremost space experts, and is the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Manager for the UK Space Agency. Libby’s career working in the space industry began when she applied for work experience at NASA aged 17 from her secondary school in Kent. Weeks later she was sitting in Mission Control in Houston. 10 years on, and after completing a physics degree at Imperial College, she was back working at Mission Control from the European Space Agency side in Munich. Since then she has worked as a Columbus Flight Director on missions to the International Space Station. From 2014 – 2016, she managed the hugely successful UK Space Agency education and outreach programmes that supported Tim Peake’s mission.

Libby Jackson

Pete Jackson

Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent time with Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found, as many people do, support from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls, all banded together due to one common bond. As well as offering the support he needed throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and friendship.

Pete Jackson

Sunshine Jackson

Sunshine Jackson is a BAFTA-nominated documentary editor and edit producer. Sunshine spent three years at home after the birth of her second child, during which she founded the Hopscotch newsletter. Sunshine lives in South London with her seven- and four-year-old daughters, Florence and Bibi, her husband Jason and their cat Rosie. They never tire of the often-overlooked Investigate Centre on the lower ground floor of the Natural History Museum, and adore the fig tree in the wildlife area of Myatts Field Park (they’ve named it Tatty Bongle!).

Sunshine Jackson

Mitch Jackson

Mitch Jackson was born and raised in Swindon. He is the bestselling author of twelve novels, as well as the 2015 memoir Boots on the Ground. He is a trustee of the National Literary Trust and a tireless campaigner for better access and diversity in the arts.

Mitch Jackson

Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson has written thousands of articles, primarily on film, photography, modern art, literature and cultural history for, among others, The New Yorker, Granta, Prospect, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Evening Standard and Vogue. He has been a script editor and script consultant, lectured and taught at the National Film Theatre, the Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Musuem, and University College London, presented documentaries for Radio 3 and Radio 4, directed and produced films for television, written the book and lyrics for a rock opera, curated film seasons and a photography exhibition as well as authored and edited more than twenty books.

Kevin Jackson

Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson was a prominent police officer for 32 years. He rose through the ranks to Detective Superintendent and presided over many murder and serious crime investigations. He is now retired and lives in Glasgow.

Joe Jackson

Jeannette Jackson

Jeannette Jackson is a nutritional biochemist, who works as an executive health consultant for blue chip organisations, offering expert scientific advice on all areas of health, nutrition and wellness to enhance staff productivity and performance. She is the resident expert on Sky Living's Bigger Than... series, and recently worked with Claire Richards from the pop group Steps on the Slave to Food documentary. She is also the nutrition expert on the Anti-Ageing Secrets DVD with Glynis Barber. She regularly appears as an expert on TV and radio shows for the BBC and as a keynote speaker at national conferences.

Jeannette Jackson

Sharna Jackson

Sharna Jackson is an award-winning author and curator who specialises in developing socially-engaged initiatives for children across culture, publishing and entertainment. She was recently the Artistic Director at Site Gallery in Sheffield, and was formerly the editor of the Tate Kids website. Sharna's debut novel High-Rise Mystery received numerous awards and accolades including the Waterstones Book Prize for the Best Book for Younger Readers. Sharna lives on a ship in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Sharna Jackson

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek Jacobi CBE is a renowned actor and director. In a career that has spanned over 50 years, he has appeared in a wide variety of roles on stage, film and television. He was a founder member of the National Theatre, and has played numerous Shakespeare roles including Hamlet, King Lear, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Other notable roles include Cyrano de Bergerac, Alan Turing in Breaking the Code and starring in A Voyage Round My Father. His film credits include Little Dorrit, Gladiator, Gosford Park, The Golden Compass and The King's Speech; but he is probably best known for his television roles, primarily Claudius in I, Claudius. He starred as Cadfael in the eponymous TV series, played the Master in Doctor Who, narrated In the Night Garden and starred in Last Tango in Halifax and Vicious. Among his many awards are two Laurence Olivier Awards (for Cyrano de Bergerac and Twelfth Night), a Tony Award for Best Actor (for Much Ado about Nothing), a BAFTA Award for Best Actor (for I, Claudius), two Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was awarded a CBE in 1985 and a Knight Bachelor (for services to drama) in 1994. He lives with his partner in North London.

Derek Jacobi

Harriet Jacobs

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897 In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation, this work is an outstanding example of a woman's extraordinary courage--and one of the most provocative first-person accounts of slavery in American history

Harriet Jacobs

Adam Jacot de Boinod

Adam Jacot de Boinod, hunter of perfect and obscure bon mots, is a true linguistic bowerbird (a person who collects an astonishing array of - sometimes useless - objects).He trawled the languages of the world for exotic specimens in his bestselling book The Meaning of Tingo and hit follow-up Toujours Tingo and has now turned his attention to his mother tongue in The Wonder of Whiffling.

Adam Jacot de Boinod

Mark de Jager

Mark de Jager isn't sure if his love of writing led to his love of gaming or vice versa, but his earliest memories involve both. He now spends his time trying to find a balance between these and working a full time job in the City, a process made slightly easier by his coffee addiction. An ex-MP in the South African army, Mark now lives in Kent with his wife Liz (herself a published author) and their lazy dog in a house that is equal parts library and home.

Mark de Jager

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger is best known as the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, one of the greatest rock bands of all time. In a career spanning over five decades, he has also been an actor, film producer, solo artist and songwriter. Mick was born in 1943, and was childhood friends with Keith Richards. The two lost touch when they went to different schools, but in 1960 a chance meeting at a a railway station brought them back together and they discovered they shared a passion for rhythm and blues and rock n' roll. The Rolling Stones came together in the early Sixties, as Jagger, Richards and guitarist Brian Jones were joined by Ian Stewart and later, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. By 1963, the band was well established, and by the following year they were rivalling the Beatles in popularity. Over the next decade, they went on to have a string of hits and released several bestselling albums. They launched Rolling Stones Records in 1971, and toured the world performing concerts in stadiums and arenas. After a near-split in the 1980s, the band made a comeback, and they are still playing and touring today - in 2013, they headlined at Glastonbury and played two sell-out Hyde Park concerts to mark their 50th anniversary. Mick Jagger's solo work has also been exceptionally successful: he has released 15 singles and five solo albums. He began acting in 1968, and starred in Nic Roeg's cult hit Performance and the 1970 biopic Ned Kelly. A move into producing followed, and in in 1995 he founded (with Victoria Pearman) Jagged Films. The company's productions include Enigma, The Woman and a documentary about Jagger, Being Mick. Jagger has also co-produced several films, including the 2014 movie about James Brown, Get On Up. Mick Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and was knighted in 2003 for services to music. Jagger has been married twice and had many other relationships. He has seven children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mick Jagger

Jane Jakeman

Jane Jakeman is an author and freelance journalist with a doctorate in art history. Her first three novels featured the Byronic detective Lord Ambrose Malfine, which she followed with a modern thriller set on the Riviera. She regularly reviews crime for the Independent, and lives in Oxford.

Jane Jakeman

Katherine Jakeways

Katherine Jakeways is a British comedian, actor and writer. Her television appearances include Extras, Horrible Histories, Sherlock, Episodes, Trying Again, all 3 series of BBC1's The Armstrong and Miller Show and Miranda. She is also notable as one of the regular cast in the radio series Deep Trouble and Look Away Now and plays Mrs Pepys in Radio 4's continuing Woman's Hour Drama "The Diary of Samuel Pepys". She appeared onstage as Sandy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Garrick Theatre in 2006, and was the Entire Supporting Cast in Armstrong and Miller's 2010 national tour. [source: Wikipedia]

Katherine Jakeways

Chris James

Chris James is a health and wellness expert, and the world-renowned go-to man for a rejuvenated body and mind. Chris is a British Wheel of Yoga-certified teacher, he has trained, lived and practised across India, in Rishikesh and at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai. In 2000, when on holiday in London, he was randomly assaulted and had his neck broken and dislocated. To recover, he used the yogic techniques that he had learnt in India; understanding first hand at how powerful yogic teachings could be. Chris developed a uniquely soulful and spirited style of practice guiding students to approach their own practice with integrity and joy. His style is intuitive and insightful, and he puts his sensitivity as a teacher down to a strong one-on-one approach. His 12 Days Cleanse supplement range was born out of his desire to share with others the mandate for creating a robust mind and body and optimal health and is stocked at premium outlets across the world. Chris teaches high-profile clients and runs retreats, workshops and masterclasses across the world.

Chris James

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