Protest

Frank Cottrell Boyce is the author of Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, Cosmic, Framed, and Millions, the last of which was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. His books have won or been nominated for numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Frank is also a screenwriter, having penned the scripts for a number of feature films as well as the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. He lives in Liverpool with his family.

KIT DE WAAL is the author of My Name Is Leon, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award; The Trick to Time, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; Supporting Cast, a short-story collection; and Without Warning and Only Sometimes, a memoir. Sweet Pea, published in the UK as The Best of Everything, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in the United Kingdom.

Maggie Gee was a friend of Kitty Mrosovsky and a fellow alumnus of Somerville College, Oxford. She has published seventeen books, including a memoir, My Animal Life, reviewed for most British media outlets and judged many literary prizes, including the Booker. Her novels include Blood (2019), Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014), and the pioneering climate change fictions Where Are the Snows (1990), The Ice People (1997), and The Flood (2004). Her novel The White Family (2002) was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the International Dublin Impac Award. Her books have been translated into over 15 languages. She is a Professor Emeritus of Bath Spa University.

Holly Pester is a writer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre, University of Essex. Her books and works include Ecloques for Idle Workers (BBC Radio and Distance No Object, 2018), Comic Timing (Granta, 2021), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and The Lodgers (Granta, 2024). She is based in Essex, England.

Alexei Sayle is a comedian, actor, presenter and writer. His television work as a writer and performer includes The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and The All New Alexei Sayle Show and Alexei Sayle's Liverpool for BBC 2. He has written for many newspapers and magazines and appeared in numerous films, from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to Gorky Park. He is currently writing his memoir, STALIN ATE MY HOMEWORK, which will be published by Sceptre in 2010.