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from the 1st May, or online at www.idler.co.uk CONTRIBUTORS

matthew de abaitua ’s debut novel, The Red Men , is published by Snowbooks david boyle works at the New Economics Foundation and is the author of Blondel’s Song and many other brilliant books. Find out more at www.david-boyle.co.uk christian brett , the Idler’s typesetter, runs Bracketpress at www.bracketpress.co.uk james bridle ’s work can be inspected at www.shorttermmemoryloss.com graham burnett is a gardener, writer and inactivist. www.spiralseed.co.uk warwick cairns ’ book on measuring is out now (MacMillan) ru callendar runs the Green Funeral Company brian dean runs the Anxiety Culture website www.anxietyculture.com ted dewan is an award winning illustrator and cartoonist bill drummond ’s latest doings can be inspected at www.penkiln-burn.com elizabeth garner is a script editor and novelist. Her book Nightdancing won the 2003 Betty Trask Award elie godsi was delegated to by Chris Yates to write thisissue’s tea column paul hamilton ’s book of Peter Cook stories is published by Snowbooks sebastian horsley is a cat in a hat tony husband is a cartoonist working for Private Eye and others bron jones aka Eve Libertine is an artist, illustrator, poet and singer …all her own work dan kieran ’s latest book Three Men In A Float, written with Ian Vince, is published by John Murray

john lloyd is the founder of QI, and he previously produced mighty TV shows such as Blackadder, Spitting Image and Not The Nine O’Clock News pete loveday is creator of the Russell comics howard male is an artist and writer mark manning is a writer, artist and musician. See www.zodiacmindwarp.com john mitchinson is QI’s Director of Information and previously occupied various high up posts in the publishing world chris moss is the author of Landscapes of the Imagination: Patagonia (Signal Books) kevin parr is an angler and a gentleman justin pollard is the author of The Interesting Bits, the History You Might Have Missed penny rimbaud is away. gwyn vaughan roberts —Gwyn—is a chronicler of the dark side jock scot has still not got a job alice smith is an artist. www.alice-wonderland.net kevin telfer is a London-based author, journalist and photographer. www.kevintelfer.com scarlett thomas ’s latest novel is the existential, steam-punk page-turner The End of MrY (Canongate) ian vince’s new book, Three Men In A Float, is out now on John Murray joanna walsh is an artist and her website is at www.walshworks.org.uk ged wells runs Insane and illustrated The Book Of Idle Pleasures (Ebury) tony white is the Idler’s literary editor and author of Foxy-T (Faber and Faber) robert wringham is a comedian and writer. See www.wringham.co.uk