Tim Lott
Author and critic
Judge , 2011
Tim is a former journalist whose first book was the memoir 'The Scent of Dry Roses'.
It won the PEN/JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and is now published as a Penguin Modern Classic.
His first novel, 'White City Blue', won the Whitbread First Novel Award. Tim’s most recent novel, 'Fearless', is a mythic, political, dystopian fable about a group of 1000 girls confined to an institute in a time of terror.
Tim writes for a wide range of publications and frequently appears on TV and radio as a commentator and critic.
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Joanna Bourke
Academic and writer
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Roger Highfield
Science editor and journalist
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Vivienne Parry
Writer and broadcaster
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Erica Wagner
Literary editor and author