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JOHN FANSHAWE is an author and environmentalist.He works with BirdLife International, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and is a co-founder of New Networks for Nature. RELATED BOOKS [/vc_column] My House of Sky: The…

HUGH FEARLEY-WHITTINGSTALL  is a chef, food writer and campaigner, whose River Cottage books and television shows have made him a household name. He lives in Devon and campaigns for animal welfare, sustainable food…

RICHARD BENSON is an English author, journalist and critic. He grew up on a small farm in Yorkshire, was educated at King’s College, London, and began his professional writing career as a…

JOHN BERGER is an English art critic, novelist, painter, poet and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His seminal essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, was written as…

HERBERT BARNARD EVERETT (1876-1949) took his first sea voyage while studying at the Slade School of Art, and thereafter made a speciality of shipboard scenes and seascapes, signing each painting ‘John’ Everett.…

PATRICK BARKHAM was born in 1975 in Norfolk and was educated at Cambridge University. He is the natural history writer at The Guardian and author of Badgerlands and The Butterfly Isles: A…

WILLIAM BOYD'S many short stories and novels include A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Any Human Heart and Restless. His writings have been adapted for stage and screen, and…

PETER BLAKE is a painter and pioneer of ‘Pop Art’. Born in Dartford, Kent, he studied at Gravesend School of Art under Enid Marx. After national service in the RAF he studied…

SIMON COSTIN is an internationally respected art director and set designer. Since leaving Wimbledon School of Art, where he studied Theatre Design and History of Art, he has worked with numerous leading…

MELVYN BRAGG is a writer, novelist and broadcaster best known for The South Bank Show and BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time. Born in Wigton, Cumbria, the landscape of his youth is…

EDWIN LA DELL (1914 – 1970) won scholarships to Sheffield School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where he studied under John Nash and later became head of printmaking. He…

GAVIN BONE (1903 – 1942) was a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, where he translated Anglo-Saxon poetry and taught English. He was also a distinguished artist and had exhibited at the…