Author
Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta was born in 1971, and grew up in Cambridge. He worked for a marketing consultancy in London and New York for a few years before moving to Delhi to write. His first novel, ‘Tokyo Cancelled’, a thirteen-part story cycle, was published in 2005 to widespread acclaim and has been translated into nine languages.
Dasgupta now lives permanently in Delhi, and writes for several periodicals, including the ‘Guardian’, ’New Statesman’ and BBC radio.
Ian Skelly
IAN SKELLY is a much-loved BBC Radio 3 presenter with a passion for music and the arts. Before working at the BBC, he was an award-winning travel writer for The Observer. He is also a published writer on the arts.
His Majesty King Charles III when HRH The Prince of Wales
HRH Prince Charles is first in line to the throne. His wide range of interests is reflected in ‘The Prince’s Charities’, 20 not-for-profit organisations of which he is President. The organisations are active across areas including opportunity and enterprise, education, health and the built and natural environments. The Prince’s concerns about developments in these fields have been elaborated in many speeches and articles but Harmony is the first time his philosophy has been explained.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821– 1881) was a Russian author and journalist whose novels, short stories and essays explore religious, philosophical and political aspects of the human condition, and are considered by many to be the most influential writing of the modern world, including his novella Notes from Underground, one of the earliest Existential texts. He spent a decade in the Tsarist penal system for reading banned books, including four years in a Siberian prison camp, but survived to become one of the most famous and highly regarded world writers.
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Jennifer Breheny Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the instant New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and What We Can DoAbout It. After graduating Harvard College, Wallace worked as a producer at CBS 60 Minutes, where she was part of the team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and frequently appears on national television programs to discuss her work. Her recent Ted talk can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxpONecbsZQ
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Jennifer Breheny Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the instant New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and What We Can DoAbout It. After graduating Harvard College, Wallace worked as a producer at CBS 60 Minutes, where she was part of the team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and frequently appears on national television programs to discuss her work. Her recent Ted talk can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxpONecbsZQ