Seamus Heaney, February 2010Amitav Ghosh, June 2011 (c Yan Chen)Romesh Gunesekera and Michael Morpurgo, September 2010 (credit: Isabella Ross)Left to right: Jonathan Bate, Adam Foulds, Tom Durham and Leonie Rushforth, after the John Clare event in September 2009Victoria Glendinning with Iain Sinclair after his RSL talk, ‘The Habit of Hackney’ in February 2009