february 2009
contributors
Kim Willsher, a journalist for
The Guardian and The Telegraph,
has been reporting from Paris since
2000 and has worked extensively in
Europe, Africa and Asia. In 1997 she
was named Reporter of the Year.
The comedian and writer Richard
Herring was born in Yorkshire
and grew up in Cheddar, Somerset,
where his father—“an amazing
man”—was the headmaster of
the local school.
“Overcoming prejudice brings me
hope,” says Allegra Mostyn-Owen,
a former Tatler cover girl who, after
working as a translator, became a
potter and now teaches practical art
to children at an east London mosque.
The Norwegian-born photographer
Pål Hansen lives and works in
London. His pictures have appeared
in Time,Vogue and Vanity Fair.
He was selected for the World Press
Masterclass in 2004.
“It will be fun seeing how the fanatical
atheists try to answer all this,” says
A. N. Wilson, our chief literary
critic, in this month’s review of an
exciting new book by James le Fanu
that challenges Darwin.
Contributors include: Alexander McCall Smith, Imogen Stubbs, Marco
Pierre White, Bob Flowerdew, Ben Schott, Tamasin Day-Lewis and more...
MAGALI DELPORTE (WILSON); SEAMUS RYAN (ALLEGRA); GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA LTD (WILLSHER); AVALON (HERRING)