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Jasper Rees

Jasper Rees is a freelance journalist. He has written on the arts, literature, culture and sport for, among others, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Independent, GQ and Vogue. He is the author of Wenger: The Making of a Legend and the forthcoming musical memoir I Found My Horn. He lives in London.

Jasper Rees

Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve is an author and broadcaster, and presenter of the highly acclaimed BBC series Tropic of Capricorn, Equator, Places That Don't Exist and Meet the Stans. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism, and One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God', which accompanied an Oscar-winning documentary movie of the same name. In 2005 Simon received a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an 'outstanding contribution to greater world understanding'.

Simon Reeve

Philip Reeve

Susan Cooper (Author) Susan Cooper is a world-renowned author of children's books. Born and brought up in England, she worked as a journalist before moving to America, where she now lives. Her classic The Dark Is Rising sequence has won the Newbery Medal and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize. King of Shadows was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing novels, Susan Cooper has written for the theatre and for television. Her website is at www.thelostland.com and her Facebook is at www.facebook.com/SusanCooperFanPage. Joseph Delaney (Author) Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 24 countries. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was turned into a major motion picture in 2015. Berlie Doherty (Author) Berlie Doherty began writing for children in 1983, after teaching and working in radio. She has written more than 35 books for children, as well as for the theatre, radio and television. Berlie has won the Carnegie Medal twice: in 1987 for GRANNY WAS A BUFFER GIRL and in 1992 for DEAR NOBODY. She has also won the Writer's Guild Children's Fiction Award for DAUGHTER OF THE SEA. Her work is published all over the world, and many of her books have been televised. Jamila Gavin (Author) Jamila’s first book, The Magic Orange Tree, was published in 1979 and she has since been writing steadily, producing critically acclaimed novels and collections of short stories. She has been shortlisted for many of the major children’s book awards, including the Smarties Award and the Guardian Award. Coram Boy won the Children’s Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, before being adapted for the stage. The Wheel of Surya, part one of the Surya trilogy, was runner up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and the other two titles were also shortlisted. Matt Haig (Author) Matt Haig's first novel for young readers, Shadow Forest, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Gold Smarties Award. He is also the author of various adult novels, including the bestsellers The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. Reviewers have called his writing 'totally engrossing', 'touching, quirky and macabre' and 'so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm all of its own'. His books have been translated into 25 languages. He lives in York. Eleanor Updale (Author) Eleanor Updale has been writing books since the turn of the century. Before that she worked in radio and television: mainly on news programmes including The World at One and Newsnight. Eleanor's 'Montmorency' series has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and Johnny Swanson was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards and won the Fantastic Book Award. You can find out more at www.eleanorupdale.com

Philip Reeve

Jarlath Regan

Jarlath Regan is a comedian. He had sold-out shows at Edinburgh in 2008 and is a regular guest on RTE television's prime time comedy chat show, The Panel. Last year, TV3 followed him to Edinburgh in a three-part documentary called Nobody knows ... Jarlath Regan. Here are some more things you might not know about Jarlath: He talks tough when he gets hungry but has never been in a fist fight. He used to own a dog called Kim. At ten years old he hit her over the head with a broken axe handle, accidentally. She survived but is now dead. He likes the fact that all airplanes are equipped with a peephole in the cockpit door. He enjoys underestimating things in order to increase the level of excitement in his life. He likes eating sushi but dislikes the Generation Game component of the experience.

Jarlath Regan

Louisa Reid

Louisa Reid has lived in Cambridge, London and Zurich, and now lives near Manchester. She graduated with a degree in English from Oxford before training as an English teacher at Cambridge University and she continues to work as a teacher. Louisa is the author of four novels for young adults; Black Heart Blue and Gloves Off were both nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Louisa Reid

Matthew Reinhart

Matthew Reinhart studied industrial design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn before finding his calling as a paper engineer. His books include the best-selling Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy, A Pop-Up Book of Nursery Rhymes, and DC Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book, among many other award-winning titles. He lives in New York City. Since pursuing a career in illustration, having initially found himself in the financial sector, Kevin Wilson has exhibited his work globally and worked with clients such as IMAX, Marvel and Bad Robot. He lives with his wife and two daughters in the south of England

Matthew Reinhart

Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner worked for many years at the Natural Resources Defense Counsel in the United States. He is the author of the legendary Cadillac Desert and also of Game Wars. Marc Reisner died in 2000.

Marc Reisner

Mark Reiter

Marshall Goldsmith is the world's no.1 executive coach and has worked with CEOs for over 150 companies. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, is a founding partner of the Marshall Goldsmith Group, and was named the world's most influential business thinker on the Thinkers50 list. He is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, some co-authored with literary agent Mark Reiter, including Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Goldsmith's books have been translated into 28 languages.

Mark Reiter

Ilkka Remes

Finland's unrivalled publishing sensation, Remes is famous for his high-octane thrillers with international settings. His first book for adults appeared in 1997 and was an immediate success. Since then, he has published 12 books for adults and 6 for children, hitting the bestseller list every time.

Ilkka Remes

Olivia Remes

Dr Olivia Remes is a mental health researcher at the University of Cambridge, a life coach, and a public speaker. She has researched mental health issues such as anxiety, loneliness and coping. She is a regular speaker on BBC Cambridgeshire and has appeared on Late Night Woman's Hour and National Public Radio in the US. Her work has been featured in publications across the world. Her TedTalks about anxiety, coping and loneliness have garnered nearly 3 million views. This is her first book.

Olivia Remes

Magnus Renfrew

Magnus Renfrew is a cultural entrepreneur and writer with over 20 years' experience in the international art world. In 2017 Renfrew founded the ARTHQ / Group, a leading service provider for the art world. ARTHQ / Group provides Strategic Consultancy and Executive Search solutions for the art world as well as investing in, and creating, landmark events and digital platforms to expand audiences. Renfrew served as founding director of Art Basel in Hong Kong from 2012-2014 following the acquisition of ART HK by MC H Group. From 2007-2012 Renfrew was the founding fair director of ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair. ART HK is widely credited with repositioning Hong Kong as the centre of the art market in Asia and as having a transformative impact on the cultural landscape of the city and its perception globally. Renfrew has been recognized for his contribution by industry media and has regularly appeared in the Power 100 lists of ART + AUCTION, ART REVIEW and Le Journal des Arts as one of the 100 most influential figures in the art world. In 2013 he was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

Magnus Renfrew

Samantha Renke

Samantha Renke is an actress, presenter, disability activist, inclusion and equality consultant and keynote speaker. She is a columnist for the Metro and has written a multitude of articles on what it is like to be disabled in a disabling word. She was born with a rare genetic condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta or more commonly known as Brittle Bone condition and is a fulltime wheelchair user. She has racked up an impressive two hundred and counting broken bones and has had ten operations including spinal fusion and telescopic leg rodding. Samantha has never walked and quite frankly has never wanted to.

Samantha Renke

Laure Van Rensburg

Laure Van Rensburg is a French writer living in the UK and an Ink Academy alumna. Her stories have appeared in online magazines and anthologies such as Litro Magazine, Storgy Magazine, The Real Jazz Baby (2020 Best Anthology, Saboteur Awards 2020), and FIVE:2:ONE. She has also placed in competitions including 2018 & 2019 Bath Short Story Award.

Laure Van Rensburg

Alex Renton

Alex Renton (Author) Alex Renton is an award-winning writer and reporter whose career has ranged from theatre criticism, food writing and the investigation of child abuse to work as a political correspondent and war reporter in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is also the author of Planet Carnivore. Sheila Dillon (Foreword By) Sheila Dillon is a British writer and broadcaster who began her career writing for the New York food magazine Food Monitor. She is known to listeners of Radio Four as presenter of The Food Programme, on which she has appeared for more than 20 years. Dillon also presents the annual Food and Farming Awards.

Alex Renton

Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa is CEO, co-founder and President of Rappler, the Philippines's top digital news site. She grew up in America and studied at Princeton University before working as a journalist in Asia for over 35 years. Maria has endured multiple arrests by the Duterte government, which is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A THOUSAND CUTS. Ressa won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 and is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2021. She was TIME Person of the Year in 2018, and was named by TIME as one of the most inspiring and influential women of the century. She has also featured in Prospect's Top 50 Thinkers, Bloomberg 50, and the BBC's Top 100 Women. She has received countless awards for her work, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Before founding Rappler, Maria investigated terrorism in Southeast Asia, opening and running CNN's Manila Bureau and Jakarta Bureaus, before heading the largest news group in the Philippines. She wrote Seeds of Terror in 2003 and From Bin Laden to Facebook in 2012.

Maria Ressa

Robert Reuland

Rob Reuland practised law on Wall Street for many years before joining the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, where he was assigned to the Homicide Bureau. He spent his youth in Iowa before attending Cambridge University and the Vanderbilt Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two young children and writes full-time. He is the author of Hollowpoint and Semiautomatic.

Robert Reuland

Bjarne Reuter

Bjarne Reuter grew up in Copenhagen, which is the setting of many of the author's books. He wrote his first book, Kidnapping, while studying at teachers' college and by the time he turned thirty, he could retire from teaching and devote himself to writing. Today, with more than 60 works to his credit, he is Denmark's most widely read author.

Bjarne Reuter

Kate Rew

Kate Rew is the founder of The Outdoor Swimming Society. Born on a Devon farm, she began river swimming as a child and hasn't stopped since. As founder of The OSS, Kate has founded three iconic open water events (Dart10k, Swoosh and Hurly Burly) and has spearheaded an international resurgence in swimming outdoors. Her first book Wild Swim was published in 2008.

Kate Rew

David Van Reybrouck

David Van Reybrouck is considered ‘one of the leading intellectuals in Europe’ (Der Tagesspiegel) and is a pioneering advocate of participatory democracy. He founded the G1000 Citizens' Summit, and his work has led to trials in participatory democracy throughout Belgium and The Netherlands. He is also one of the most highly regarded literary and political writers of his generation, whose most recent book, Congo: The Epic History of a People, won 19 prizes, sold 500,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. It was described as a ‘masterpiece’ by the Independent and ‘magnificent’ by The New York Times.

David Van Reybrouck

Alina Reyes

Alina Reyes is the best-selling author of The Butcher, which was an immediate success in her native France. Her first book, it was unusual for its time in being both a piece of erotica and being written by a woman. She followed it with Lucie's Long Voyage and Behind Closed Doors, as well as contributing to collections of erotic fiction.

Alina Reyes

Wladyslaw Reymont

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (7 May 1867 - 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his four-volume epic The Peasants (Chlopi), which was original published between 1904 and 1909.

Wladyslaw Reymont

Mathew Reynolds

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265. At about twenty he married Gemma Donati, with whom he has three children. He first met Beatrice Portinari in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction by studying philosophy and theology and by writing the VITA NUOVA. During this time he became involved in the strife between the Guelfs and the Ghibelines; he became a prominent White Guelf and when the Black Guelfs came to power in 1302 Dante, during an absence from Florence, was condemned to exile. He took refuge first in Verona and after wandering from place to place, he settled in Ravenna. While there he completed THE DIVINE COMEDY, which he had begun in 1308. He died in Ravenna in 1321. Eric Griffiths is Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge and works principally on English poetry from the Restoration to the present day; with an interest in comparative literature (French, German, and Italian) and in philosophical and theological aspects of writing (he has published on Newman and Wittgenstein). He gave the British Academy Chatterton Lecture in 1992 and is the author of The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (1989). Matthew Reynolds is a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, author of The Realms of Verse 1830-70: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building (OUP, 2001), and a regular contributor to the LRB.

Mathew Reynolds

Matthew Rice

Matthew Rice is the author of Rice's Architectural Primer, which has been warmly embraced by architectural students and enthusiasts alike. A celebrated illustrator, he is perhaps best known for his longstanding collaboration with the potter Emma Bridgewater. He lives and works in a medieval gatehouse near Oxford.

Matthew Rice

Naomi Rich

Naomi Rich was awarded a BA in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge, and a PGCE from Manchester University. For many years, she taught English at St Paul's Girls' School in London. Alis is her first novel, although she has enjoyed writing from a young age. She is particularly interested in seventeenth century Puritanism, as well as nineteenth century novels and medicine.

Naomi Rich

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