Books & Culture

David Hare’s “We Travelled: Essays and Poems” (Faber) is out now

Ivan Hewett is the Daily Telegraph’s classical music critic

Emma John is a journalist, author and podcast presenter. Her “Wayfaring Stranger: A Musical Journey in the American South” is out now

Colin Kidd is professor of history at the University of St Andrews

Rhodri Lewis teaches English at Princeton. His “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art” will be published next year. He is now at work on a biography of Frank Kermode

David McAllister is production editor at Prospect

Ferdinand Mount’s latest novel is “Making Nice” (Bloomsbury)

Jonathan Powell is CEO in Inter Mediate, an NGO working to help end armed conflicts around the world

Sukhdev Sandhu runs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University

Rose Tremain is a novelist and short story writer. Her latest book is “Lily: A Tale of Revenge” (Chatto & Windus)