Andrew O'Hagan is a novelist and non-fiction author from Glasgow. Three of his novels have been nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction and he has won several awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and Granta magazine, and a Fellow of the RSL. His most recent novel, Mayflies (2020), won the Christopher Isherwood Prize.

Gillian Anderson, award-winning film, television and theatre actress, achieved international recognition for her role in The X-Files. Further television credits include Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Fall, Hannibal,  American Gods, and War and Peace. And in film, The House Of Mirth, Last King Of Scotland, Shadow Dancer, and Johnny English Reborn. She will soon be seen in Mark Forster’s White Bird. On stage, Gillian performed most recently as Margot Channing in Ivo van Hove’s West End adaptation of All About Eve and prior to that in an acclaimed turn as Blanche Dubois in the Young Vic Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Gillian can currently be seen starring as the UK’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown, as Jean Milburn in Netflix’s Sex Education, and will soon be seen as Eleanor Roosevelt alongside Viola Davis and Michelle Pfeiffer in Showtime’s First Ladies.