John Crace (Author) John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of the 'Digested Read' columns and he writes regularly for Grazia. He is the author of I Never Promised you a Rose Garden- A short guide to modern politics, the coalition and the general election and also Baby Alarm- A Neurotic's Guide to Fatherhood, Vertigo- One Football Fan's Fear of Success , Harry's Games- Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp, Brideshead Abbreviated- the Digested Read of the Twentieth Century and The Digested Twenty-first Century. He lives in London. John Sutherland (Author) John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College London and previously taught at the California Institute of Technology. He writes regularly for the Guardian, The Times and the New York Times, and is the author of many books including Curiosities of Literature, Is Henry V a War Criminal? (with Cedric Watts), biographies of Walter Scott, Stephen Spender and the Victorian elephant Jumbo, and The Boy Who Loved Books, a memoir.