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Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of Hanns and Rudolf, which won the Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction, and The House by the Lake, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. His book Blood on the Page won the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction, while White Debt was long-listed for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. More recently, his biography of the publisher George Weidenfeld, The Maverick, was selected by the New York Times as a Critic’s Pick for 2023. His new book The Einstein Vendetta is published in April 2025. Thomas is also the author of three picture books for children, including The House by the Lake, which was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, the author Debora Harding.
Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.”