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Rachel Clarke

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Dr Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and writer who lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two children.Her latest book, The Sunday Times number 3 bestseller DEAR LIFE, has just been shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book awards, and was long-listed for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize. It is based on her work in a hospice and explores love, loss, grief, dying and what matters at the end of life. The Costa biography judges described it as: "A beautifully written, powerfully moving book that tackles an emotive and difficult subject with professional compassion and personal insight." On 28 January...

Bill Hammack

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Make magazine called Bill a "brilliant science-and-technology documentarian", whose "videos should be held up as models of how to present complex technical information visually." Wired called them "dazzling." His work has been recognized by an extraordinarily broad range of scientific, engineering, and journalistic professional societies. From journalists he has won the trifecta of the top science and engineering journalism awards: The National Association of Science Writer's coveted Science in Society Award; the American Chemical Society's Grady-Stack Medal, and the American...