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Mel Clark lives in New Zealand and runs the South Seas Knitting shop online (www.southseasknitting.com). Her work has been published in a variety of lead knitting magazines, including The Knitter, Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, and Yarn.

Glyn Callingham runs the legendary Ray’s Jazz Shop in London. He is co-author of The Cover Art of Blue Note RecordsVolumes 1 and 2, East Coasting and California Cool. He contributes to several jazz magazines and is a walking encyclopaedia on jazz of the fifties and sixties.

Malcolm Croft is a 25-30YO W P M with a GSOH, NS, SD who has NBM and is in a LTR. He is ISO a BI HWP M or F with GSOH for FTA. He is DDF. Well, DF. He lives and works in London and is the author of The Secret Body Language of Girls (9781906032814) published by Portico.

Polly Wylly Cooper is a true Savannahian, born in 1940 in the Telfair Hospital for Women. Her books include: Sand Between Our Toes, Tybee Days, Isle of Hope – Images of America, A Visitors’ Guide to Savannah, Savannah Guidebook, and Bluff Drive and the Isle of Hope Churches. She lives on the Isle of Hope.

<p><em>Hole &amp;amp;amp; Corner</em> was launched in May 2013 as a lifestyle brand celebrating and promoting creativity, craftsmanship, heritage and authenticity through digital, print and events. The name is inspired by an old phrase: <em>‘Hole-and-Corner: adj, a secret place or a life lived away from the mainstream’. </em>The <em>Hole &amp;amp;amp; Corner</em> magazine is about people who spend more time doing than talking, for whom content is more important than style; whose work is their life. It’s about telling stories of dedication.</p>

Paul started his café, Blue Dogs Kitchen, in 2013 with a focus on fresh ingredients for salads, sandwiches and freakshakes. He lives in Cheltenham with his wife and their two dogs.

Michelle and Rob Comins, co-founders of Comins Tea, a family run direct-trade tea merchants, have spent the last 10 years travelling the world sourcing fine single-estate teas for their business. Often travelling to remote corners of the world in search of tea, their travels have led them to meet and share tea, experiences and stories with many fascinating tea professionals. Their award-winning tea houses in Dorset and Bath give them unique first-hand experience of the consumer-facing side of the tea. Winner of Bath Life Awards 2017 Best Café, they also supply independent retailers and restaurants around the UK with their finest tea. For more information, visit their website here: www.cominstea.com.

Matt Collins is a freelance garden and Nature writer, and Head Gardener at the Garden Museum in London. Beginning his training at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Matt came to writing through horticulture. His interests lie at the intersection between cultivated and natural environments, and the processes by which they are recorded. Matt documents his written and horticultural work at www.mattcollinsgarden.co.uk

John Cauman is an independent curator and writer on late 19th-century and early 20th-century art. He studied at Columbia and Bennington before receiving his PhD from City University of New York with a dissertation on Matisse and America: 1905-1933. He has contributed to various publications including Inheriting Cubism and co-curated the exhibition ‘Matisse and American Art’ at Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, 2018.

Marie Clayton is a professional writer, who has worked on a variety of sewing and needlecraft books including Ultimate Sewing Bible (9781843404118) and Make Your Own Clothes (9781843403890). She currently lives in London.