Charlotte Bailey
Charlotte Bailey began her aviation career building special-shape hot-air balloons. However, a love of fixed-wing flight prompted a sidestep into writing. Now a freelance aviation editor and author, she has worked on titles worldwide, as well as learni …
Lindsey Bareham
Lindsey Bareham writes the Dinner Tonight column in the Times and has written many cook books including The Big Red Book of Tomatoes and The Fish Store, both in Grub Street paperback. Her latest, One Pot Wonders, is complemented by a new edition of Jus …
Garth Barnard
Garth Barnard’s interest in aviation stems from a lifelong passion and unshakeable resolve to investigate the deaths of thousands of young airmen during the Second World War. He began his research in 2000 and by 2003 created aviationresearch.co.uk to d …
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird was born in Woodley and studied at Reading College of Art & Design and served in Royal Air Force Reserves. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines. He is the prolific author of A Separate Little War and Coastal Dawn. He …
Tony Blackman
With a physics degree from Trinity College Cambridge, Tony Blackman joined the RAF to train as a test pilot. From there he became chief test pilot at Avro testing the three V Bombers, Nimrod and Avro 748 aircraft. His next career was as an avionics sp …
Steve Bond
Steve Bond is a life-long aviation enthusiast and historian, who has also been fortunate enough to spend most of his working life in the industry. He served in the Royal Air Force for 22 years as an aircraft Propulsion Technician, with tours on the Ha …
Carol Bowen Ball
Carol Bowen Ball has been a freelance cookery writer, food consultant and broadcaster since the 1980s, having previously worked for Good Housekeeping, Homes and Gardens and Bird’s Eye (as Head of Consumer Affairs). Carol has advised on various projects …
Chris Burwell
Chris Burwell joined the RAF in 1969. His first tour was as a flying instructor on Jet Provosts before joining the Harrier Force. During this time, he served on squadrons in the UK and Germany, and as an instructor and display pilot on the Harrier Conv …
Steve Darlow
Steve Darlow is a Bomber Command historian and established military aviation author, with fourteen books to his name. Steve has made numerous radio and televison appearances, and recently acted as programme consultant on the BBC’s The Lancaster: Britai …
Elizabeth David
With new glossy, overdesigned cookbooks appearing on the market almost every week could there ever be a more appropriate time to consider the words of Jane Grigson when she said ‘Every time we begin to feel fussed by the cookery elaborators with their …
Arto der Haroutunian
Every one of the twelve cookbooks Arto der Haroutunian wrote became a classic; his thoughtful, erudite writing helped to explain to westerners the subtlety, complexity and diversity of Middle Eastern and North African cooking. He was born in Aleppo, Sy …
Helen Doe
Helen Doe is a well-established author and historian with a PhD in history from the University of Exeter. Stanford Tuck is her second biography focusing on World War II RAF aces. In 2015 she published Fighter Pilot, the biography of her father, Bob Doe …
Suzanne Dunaway
Author of No Need To Knead, and Magazine and book illustrator for many years including her own books, Italy Cooks by Judy Ziedler, The New Yorker, Gourmet Magazine, Bon Appetit, Wine & Food, ex-owner of Buona Forchetta Hand Made Breads in Los Ange …
Sean Feast
Sean Feast started a career in journalism in 1985, concurrently training at the London College of Printing and later joining Maxwell Business Communications. In 1991 he joined the then fledgling advertising agency, AGA, to start its PR business, AGA Pu …
Norman Franks
Norman Franks was a well-respected and world-renowned author with over 100 books to his name. Author of Battle of the Airfields, The Greatest Air Battle, Buck McNair, Beyond Courage and Aircraft versus Aircraft, he was also co-author of many titles wit …
Arthur Gould Lee
Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to France during World War I. In November 1917 during low level bombing and strafing attacks, he was shot down th …
Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson was born in Yorkshire in 1928. She was educated at boarding school and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English Literature. Graduating in 1949, she went to Florence for three months to learn Italian. On her return to England s …
Ian Hall
Ian Hall spent thirty-two years as an RAF pilot, retiring as a group captain. He then flew turbo-props for a regional airline for a further twelve years. Married with three grown-up children, he lives in Norfolk.
Amanda Harrison
Amanda Harrison is a commercial pilot with a tremendous sense of adventure. Eighteen months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she started her journey in a Tiger Moth which led to the publication of Solo2Darwin. Inspired by her father’s remote-c …
RG Head
RG Head is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and was one of the first fighter pilots in Vietnam. He flew 325 combat missions in the A-1 Skyraider, earned the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross and thirteen Air Medals. Earning a PhD in politic …
Pierre Hermé
Pierre Hermé is universally acknowledged as the king of French pastry with shops in Tokyo, Paris and London. He is the best, and has even been described as a couturier of pastry. This is a man at the top of his art and there is no question his macarons …
Elisabeth Luard
Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food writer who often illustrates her own work. Cookbooks include European Peasant Cookery, European Seasonal Dishes and Tapas (all in print with Grub Street). Other work includes The Food of Spain and Portugal, T …
Bob Marston
After completing the Harrier course on 233 Operational Conversion Unit, Bob Marston joined 1 (Fighter) Squadron finishing the tour qualified as a fighter reconnaissance instructor. After two years of flying Harrier displays, he became a Hawk qualified …
Vincent Orange
Professor Vincent Orange was born in Shildon, County Durham, in 1935 and educated at St. Mary’s Grammar School, Darlington, in the Royal Air Force (1953-6), and at Hull University. In 1962 he went to live in New Zealand and taught History at the Univer …
Alice Pagès
Alice Pagès is a plant-based chef, photographer, and food stylist. She enjoys linking her love for travelling with cooking by sharing original and inspiring recipes on her different social media platforms. She shows that cooking can be both traditional …
Marguerite Patten
Marguerite Patten CBE, was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1915 and grew up in Hertfordshire. She started cooking for her family at a very young age when her mother had to return to work. When the Second World War broke out, Marguerite started working for t …
Rick Peacock-Edwards
Rick Peacock-Edwards was educated in South Africa from where he joined the RAF in 1965. He spent over thirty years in the RAF and retired as an air commodore in 1999. RAF appointments included station commander RAF Leeming, deputy commander RAF Staff W …
Richard Pike
Richard Pike graduated from the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell in 1964. As part of his fighter pilot training he flew the Folland Gnat at RAF Valley followed by six months at RAF Chivenor where he flew the Hawker Hunter. The syllabus at Chivenor inc …
Graham Pitchfork
Graham Pitchfork served in the RAF as a navigator for 36 years and retired as an air commodore in 1995. Most of his flying was on the Buccaneer and before retiring he was a Director of Intelligence in the MOD. He has written ten books and many articl …
Dr Tony Redding
Dr Tony Redding is a military historian and author with a particular interest in RAF Bomber Command. Following the publication of two books on Bomber Command in World War 2, Dr Redding began a seven-year research programme on the British airborne nucle …
Black Robertson
Air Marshal G.A. ‘Black’ Robertson CBE BA FRAeS FRSA was born in Woodford, Essex, and educated nearby at Bancroft’s School. He earned his wings in 1966 after three years at the RAF College Cranwell. With postings worldwide, he flew all the RAF’s front …
Andy Saunders
Andy Saunders has been involved with historic aviation for over thirty years and is well known in the aircraft preservation and restoration field. His specialist area of interest is in the air war over Europe, 1939-1945. One of the co-founders of Tangm …
Christopher Shores
Christopher Shores was a prolific and much acclaimed writer on military aviation history.
Bob Tuxford
Squadron Leader Robert Tuxford, AFC RAF Retd, graduated from the RAF College Cranwell in 1970. His first operational tour was on 214 Squadron on the Victor K1 3-point tanker in the air-to-air refuelling role. Selected for a coveted American exchange po …
Ruth Van Waerebeek
Chef Ruth Van Waerebeek combines a love of travel, adventure and the culinary arts with a talent for communicating those passions verbally and in print. Born in Ghent, Belgium learned to cook at the sides of her mother and grandmother. This accumulated …
Edite Viera
Edite Vieira was born in Portugal. She moved to London where she worked for the BBC as a radio journalist and programme announcer. She was a cultural affairs correspondent for a number of magazines but was most highly regarded as the author of many boo …
Jim Walls
Jim Walls was born in Edinburgh and joined the RAF in 1958, serving as a radar technician at a number of RAF stations including RAF Leeming and RAF Seletar in Singapore. Returning to the UK in 1969 he trained as an air electronics operator. Jim flew in …
Anne-Katrin Weber
Anne-Katrin Weber is a chef, nutritional scientist, freelance author of numerous cookery and pastry books – some of which have won awards- and an in demand food stylist for magazines and advertising. She loves cooking with vegetables and makes them a f …
Chris Wroblewski
Since his early teens Chris Wroblewski has been fascinated with aircraft and Second World War aviation history. Over a 36-year career as a licensed Canadian aircraft maintenance engineer, he has amassed experience on a range of aircraft and worked for …
