Michaela Riding

Michaela adores creative nonfiction, from letters written to men real and imagined, through memoirs about grief and falconry, to a history of salt, and if there's a long-form essay about gardening and post-colonialism along the way, all the better. She takes her fiction with a soupçon of magical realism and her children's picture books with a double scoop of gorgeous illustrations and profound prose. When she's not reading, she's probably knitting rather well or playing tennis rather badly.