SHORT BOOKS - Key Persons


Galit Atlas

Job Titles:
  • Psychoanalyst and Clinical Supervisor in Private Practice in Manhattan
Galit Atlas PhD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Atlas has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. A leader in the fi eld of relational psychoanalysis, Dr Atlas is a recipient of the Andre Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

Lucinda Miller

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Nature
Lucinda Miller is the founder of NatureDoc, and runs busy clinics across the UK specialising in childhood nutrition. She has been practising as a naturopathic iridologist and herbalist for 20 years, and has also qualified in Functional Medicine. She is a mother of three and lives with her family in Wiltshire.

Merryn Somerset Webb

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief of Money
Merryn Somerset Webb is Editor-in-Chief of MoneyWeek, the UK's best-selling financial magazine, as well as a Contributing Editor and weekly columnist at the Financial Times. Somerset Webb is also a non-executive director of several UK listed investment trusts and a regular media commentator and speaker on all things financial. She lives in Edinburgh.

Michele Kirsch

Michele Kirsch is a 59-year-old writer and cook living in East London. She has worked as a teacher, a press officer, a journalist, a glass washer, a house cleaner and a cook - in that order. Her first book, Clean, was winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2020, Book of the Week in the Daily Mail and The Lady, and Book of The Month in Psychologies.

Nick Middleton

Nick Middleton teaches geography at Oxford University, and is the author of more than a dozen books, mostly on travel and environmental themes. He is also the presenter of Channel 4's Extremes series.

Tom Smith

Dr Tom Smith MB ChB, Dip Pharm Med is 68 years old. During the course of a successful medical career, he has been a GP, published several health books, made TV and radio appearances and written for numerous medical journals and newspapers. He also has a column in the Guardian magazine. He is married with two children and five grandchildren and lives in Scotland.