David Baldacci

Tash Aw

Patricia Highsmith

Michael Smith

Guoqi Xu

Robert Macfarlane, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Laura Poppick

Sir Lawrence Freedman

Jeremy Black

Stephanie Danler

Tony Fleecs, Trish Forstner

Richard John Parfitt

Fabian Hueske, Vasiliki Kalavri

Lonely Planet

Hannah Judah, ATMA, Norman Cook

Berlie Doherty

Rob Schmitz

Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell

Tariq Ali

Jan-Werner Muller

Dr Richard Mackenzie, Peter Walker

Mitch Johnson

Silas Munro, Stephen Coles, Colette Gaiter

David Foster Wallace

Anjan Sundaram

Venus Williams

Hanna Flint

Fern Brady