Imagine receiving a phone call from the Nazis: You may deliver aid to the concentration camps, but the camp management will decide how much goes to the staff and how much to the prisoners. What do you do? Linda Polman starts The Crisis Caravan with a bang with this dilemma.

Linda Polman is also the author of We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn’t Always Come Out When the UN Goes In, which was shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses and the Index on Censorship Awards. For the past twenty years Polman has been a freelance journalist for international radio, TV and newspapers: she is a contributor to The Times and the Guardian.

Polman lives in Holland, where she is a guest lecturer for the School of Journalism. www.lindapolman.nl/uk/

Craig T. Williams is not your average historian. But then again, he’s not recounting your average history.

What interests Williams is the buried parts of the human story—the defining people and events that throughout the years have been glossed over, forgotten and denied their rightful place in our historical narrative. These stories are transcendent and they are heroic. They are the stuff of myth and legend. They are the stories of a hidden global past. And Craig Williams aims to bring them all to light. His debut historical novel, The Olympian: An American Triumph, tells the story of Dr. John Baxter Taylor Jr., the first African- American Olympic Gold Medalist. www.theolympian.net.