Arrested by the KGB, chased by cheetahs, hunting with the Bushmen of the Kalahari…Simon Reeve has lived quite a life. He’s the leading adventure traveller on British Television, travelling and filming in 120 countries, including many of the most beautiful, remote and dangerous parts of the planet. Simon’s also the New York Times bestselling author of more than six books. After a misspent youth he left school with no real qualifications and went on the dole - but went on to change his life, overcome his fears, and present over 20 TV series. 

Author of Step by Step: The Life In My Journeys 

Both an inspiring account of determination and adventuring spirit, and a field guide to some of the most remote, perilous and awesome terrain on Earth, Step by Step is Simon Reeve’s record of the thrills and challenges of his many and varied travels.

Extraordinarily creative and prolific, Chris Packham has led a remarkable life. He’s gained recognition as a naturalist, television presenter, writer, photographer, conservationist, campaigner and filmmaker.

As a broadcaster, he is a presenter of BBC’s BAFTA Award-winning Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch series. He presents notable natural history series such as Nature’s Weirdest Events, World’s Weirdest Events, World’s Sneakiest Animals, Cats V Dogs, The Burrowers, Inside the Animal Mind, Operation Iceberg and Secrets of our Living Planet.

Co-Author of  Back To Nature: how to love life - and save it with Megan McCubin

Julia Bradbury is a television presenter and outdoor walking enthusiast who has dedicated her career to sharing beautiful walks from all over the world.  Passionate about conservation, she’s an eco-activist promoting a plastic-free environment.

TV presenter, radio personality, journalist, and co-host of Strictly Come Dancing.

Author of Quite.

Pandora Sykes is a journalist and broadcaster. She has written for the Sunday Times, Vogue, ELLE and the Telegraph amongst other publications, and was the co-host of The High Low, the UK's No.1 podcast for women. She lives in London. This is her first book.

Author of How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?: essays on modern life

Christie Watson is a writer and Professor of Medical and Health Humanities. She is Patron of the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the Costa First Novel Award and along with her second novel, Where Women Are Kings, was widely translated and achieved international critical acclaim. The Language of Kindness, published in 2018, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and Book of the Year in the Evening Standard, Guardian, i, New Statesman, the Sunday Times and The Times. It has been translated into 23 languages, and adapted for theatre.

Author of The Courage to Care: a call for compassion

Jess Phillips was first elected as the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley in 2015 and was elected chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party in September 2016. Before becoming an MP, she worked with victims of domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking, and she continues to speak up on behalf of those who struggle to have their voice heard.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, the inner workings of Westminster are often a mystery to an outsider, in her new book Everything You Really Need to know About Politics: My Life as an MP, Jess Phillips lifts the lid on the systems and rules that govern us all, and in her own inimitable style shows us what's really going on in Westminster, what having a career is politics is actually like- and why it should matter to us all. Author and Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess is chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party and worked with victims of domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking before becoming an MP. She continues to speak up on behalf of those who struggle to have their voice heard.

Yomi Adegoke is a multi-award winning journalist, presenter and social commentator best known for Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible which she co-authored in 2018. 

She was named one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard, as well as winning the Groucho Maverick Award and the Marie Clare Future Shaper award. The follow up companion Slay In Your Lane: The Journal came out in 2019 and the anthology book 'Loud Black Girls' was released in 2020.

In recent years Yomi has become one of the country's leading voices on race, feminism and pop culture and how they intersect, as well as class and politics. She's also known for critiquing dating and relationships, reality TV, art, music and culture.

Yomi presented 'Where are the black women in Grime?' a BBC Radio 4 documentary and co-hosted a BBC Radio 6 takeover for Black History Month. She has been a regular guest on Sky, ITV news, and BBC Radio 4. She writes a weekly column on reality TV for the Guardian and has a monthly column at both British Vogue and the i paper. Yomi also writes regularly for The Washington Post, Vice and Elle amongst others and has been nominated for two British Journalism Awards and a total of five Comment awards.

Yomi has spoken at numerous literary festivals and appeared on various prestigious panels at events for Guardian Fresh Voices, The British Library and Intelligence squared among others.

She is a trustee for the charity Arts Emergency, which helps make the creative industries more accessible to marginalised young people and an ambassador for Eve Appeal, the leading UK national charity funding research into gynaecological cancer.