Eric Berkowitz - author of The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws and Changing Identities

Peter Doggett - author of Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music

Andrew Hosken - author of Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State

Roger Luckhurst - author of Zombies: A Cultural History

Peter Marren - author of Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

Donald McRae - author of A Man's World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith

Richard Moore - author of The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica's Sprint Factory

Nuala O'Connor - author of Miss Emily 

Iain Overton - author of Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of the Gun

Nick Page - author of The Dark Night of the Shed

Chuck Sambuchino - author of When Clowns Attack: A Guide to the Scariest People on Earth 

Dr. Wynne Weston-Davies - author of The Real Mary Kelly: Jack the Ripper’s Fifth Victim and the Identity of the Man that Killed Her