Backlisted Creators & Guests

Andy Miller is a British writer and editor. He has published three books and numerous items of journalism. Along with John Mitchinson he presents Unbound's literature podcast Backlisted ('giving new life to old books').

John Mitchinson has worked in publishing for decades. He helped to found the television panel game show, QI, and has co-written all their books. He was Waterstones' first marketing director and he has held senior publishing roles at Orion, Cassell and Harvill. He co-hosts Unbound’s Backlisted podcast.

John Higgs is an English writer, novelist, journalist, and cultural historian. The work of Higgs has been published in the form of novels (under the pseudonym JMR Higgs), biographies, and works of cultural history.

Mary Costello is a writer.Mary Costello was born in Galway.Before becoming a full-time author, Costello was a teacher.Costello's work has been serialised on BBC Radio 4. Her first book, the collection "The China Factory," was published in 2012. Her second book, the novel, "Academy Street," was published in 2014, and her second novel "The River Capture" was published in 2019.

Charlotte Higgins is a writer and journalist. Currently, she is Chief Culture Writer for The Guardian.Previously, Higgins was the Arts Correspondent and Classical Music Editor for The Guardian. She began her journalism career at Vogue.Higgins's work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New Statesman, and Prospect. She has published five books" "Latin Love Lessons," which was published in 2009, "It's All Greek to Me," which was published in 2010, "Under Another Sky," which was published in 2013, "This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC," which was published in 2015, and "Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths," which was in 2018.Higgins has served as a judge for the Art Fund Museums Prize, the Contemporary Art Society award, and the Royal Philharmonic Society awards. She is a frequent contributor to Radio 3 and 4 on the BBC.

Alex Christofi is a British author, known for his 2015 debut novel Glass and Dostoevsky in Love, a biography of the great 19th century Russian author

Author and journalist. Host of Sentimental Garbage.