Speakers-2022

William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson…

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in…

Octavius Black is a highly successful British entrepreneur, philanthropist and author. He founded the world’s…

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his…

Anne Applebaum is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic and…

Monica Ali FRSL is an award-winning, bestselling author whose novels include Brick Lane, In the…

Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator and a frequent contributor to newspapers and…

Jonathan Bate is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and a Senior…

Dr Lucasta Miller is a critic and biographer, best known for her influential afterlife study,…

Simon Heffer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Buckingham. He is…