Anthony Clare is former Medical Director of St Patrick's Hospital in Dublin and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. His BBC Radio 4 series, In the Psychiatrist's Chair, won a Sony Award in 1996 and three volumes of interviews from the series have also appeared in book form. Other books include Psychiatry in Dissent, Depression and How to Survive It, and On Men: Crisis in Masculinity.
Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels, The Colour of Memory, The Search and Paris Trance. He has also written a study of John Berger, Ways of Telling, as well as The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle prize in the United States) and But Beautiful, which won the 1992 Somerset Maugham Prize.
Julia O'Faolain is a novelist and short-story writer. She has translated Italian works including Piero Chiara's A Man of Parts (1968), and collaborated with her husband Lauro Martines on Not in God's Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians (1973). Her books include: We Might See Sights! (1968), Godded and Codded (1970), Women in the Wall (1975), No Country for Young Men (1980), The Irish Signora (1984), and The Judas Cloth (1992).