Anna Williamson

Writer and lecturer Jane Robinson specialises in history witnessed by women. Her ‘secret history of enterprising women’, Pandora’s Daughters, is published by Constable (2002). Dick Kirby joined the Metropolitan Police in 1967 and spent over half his service on the Flying Squad and the Serious Crime Squad. He is the author of Rough Justice – Memoirs of a Flying Squad Detective (Merlin Unwin, 2001) and he contributes to police periodicals on a regular basis. James Dyson, CBE, chairman, since 1999, of the Design Museum, London, invents devices that make common tasks more efficient, which so far include the bag-less vacuum cleaner, Sea Truck boat and Evolutionary Ballbarrow. Robert Uhlig is Technology Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Alan Levy is editor of the English-language newspaper The Prague Post and has published many previous works, including his highly acclaimed eyewitness account of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He lives in New York. Margaret Blackstone, a graduate of Yale University, is author of several books on a variety of medical topics, including Beat Diabetes and Recovering from a C-Section.