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Monica Janssens

Monica Janssens trained as a lawyer before leaving the profession to write full time.  Her first book is the product of several years of painstaking research – A History of the Bed and What It Tells Us About Ourselves is currently on submission.  Monica combines her time as a writer with her work as a PR executive and acts for several high profile clients. (RW)

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Herbert Krosney

Herbert Krosney is an award winning investigative journalist who divides his time between New York and Jerusalem. His most recent book The Lost Gospel, The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot published in 2006 by National Geographic was a New York Times Bestseller.  (JGH)

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Chris Lavers

Chris Lavers is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Nottingham and the author of two highly acclaimed non-fiction titles that examine the relationship between evolutionary theory and myth.  The first, Why Do Elephants Have Big Ears? was published by Weidenfeld in 2003 and, more recently, The Natural History of the Unicorns was published by Granta and received a rapturous reception.  (RW)

Mark Law

Mark Law is a journalist and the author of The Pyjama Game (Aurum, 2007).  He started his career in journalism at the Mail on Sunday and went on to write for The Times and The Daily Telegraph.  He was the Comment Editor of the Sunday Telegraph until 2004 and, until recently, editor of The First Post.  The Pyjama Game is widely regarded as the first literary sports book on the most popular of the martial arts and won him Best New Writer at the 2008 Sports Writers of the Year Award (DL)

Tony Lawrence

Tony Lawrence is the author of Hacked Off:  One Man’s All Out Bid to Crack the Secret of Golf (Aurum, 2009).  He is also a freelance journalist who spent much of his career working around the world with such international news agencies as Reuters and Agence France Presse. He has covered many major events, from an Indian general election to Mother Teresa's funeral, rugby and cricket World Cups, World Athletics Championships and several Olympic Games. (DL)

David Livingston

David Livingston is the co-author with his brother James of the acclaimed memoir Blood Over Water (Bloomsbury, 2009) in which they recount their highly publicised rivalry as competing members of the opposing Oxford and Cambridge University boat race teams.  David studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Oxford University. Whilst at University he represented Oxford twice in the Oxford Cambridge University Boat Race. David currently works in London for a boutique wealth management firm and regularly speaks on TV and radio about his Boat Race experiences. (DL)

James Livingston

James Livingston read Natural Sciences and Management at Cambridge University where he twice rowed for the Cambridge Blue Boat, competing in two of the closest Boat Races of all time.  James co-authored Blood over Water, published by Bloomsbury in March 2009, with his brother David. James has rowed at a number of World Championships at Senior and U23 level and attended the Athens Olympics as part of Team GB. He has rowed all over the world including competitions in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, New Zealand and the United States.  James lives in London. (DL)

Andrew Longmore

Andrew Longmore is an award-winning writer for the Sunday Times, having previously worked for The Times and the Independent on Sunday. He has several books, including Best Mate with Henrietta Knight, and his most recent, a biography of Kieren Fallon, is published by Racing Post (August 2009). (DL)

Sid Lowe

Sid Lowe lives in Madrid and writes a weekly column for guardian.co.uk. He also writes regularly for the Guardian, World Soccer, FourFourTwo, and the Telegraph. He works as a commentator and panelist for Spanish, Asian and US television and has acted as translator for David Beckham, Michael Owen, and Thomas Gravesen.  He translated Fernado Torres’ El Nino: My Story (HarperCollins, 2009). (DL)