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Hannah Arendt

German-American political theorist whose books examine totalitarianism, political freedom, human action and moral responsibility.

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Heather McGhee

Heather McGhee is an American author and public-policy expert whose nonfiction examines racism, economic inequality and the shared gains of cross-racial cooperation.

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Helen Hoang

Helen Hoang is an American romance novelist whose love stories center autistic and Vietnamese American characters. Her debut, The Kiss Quotient, pairs emotional candor with wit and heat.

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Helen Stevenson

Helen Stevenson is a French fiction translator and novelist based in Somerset. She studied modern languages at Oxford and is known for her translation of Vincent Delecroix's Booker-shortlisted Small Boat.

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Herman Melville

American novelist, story writer and poet (1819-1891) who turned his years as a whaling sailor into Typee, Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Largely overlooked in his lifetime, he is now counted among the great American writers.

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Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss novelist and poet (1877-1962), winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His novels, among them Demian, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, follow people trying to find a self outside society's rules.

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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel was a British novelist, memoirist and critic whose historical fiction brings political power and private consciousness into unusually close focus. She is best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy.

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Hiromi Kawakami

Tokyo-born Japanese novelist and story writer, winner of the Akutagawa and Tanizaki prizes. She moves between quiet, odd domestic fiction and speculative tales. Under the Eye of the Big Bird was shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

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Hunter S. Thompson

American journalist and author (1937-2005) who developed gonzo journalism, reporting in which the writer becomes part of the story. Best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell's Angels and his Rolling Stone coverage of American politics.

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Huston Smith

Huston Smith was an American scholar of comparative religion whose accessible nonfiction introduced generations of readers to the beliefs and practices of the world’s major faiths.

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Iain Pears

English novelist and art historian, a former journalist, known for An Instance of the Fingerpost and the Jonathan Argyll art-theft mysteries. He also wrote the introduction to Penguin's edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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Ian McEwan

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