How do you compile a book to convey the unique nature of King’s? Ask a dozen Kingsmen or women to sum up the College and you’ll get twenty different answers. In fact, the College is defined by the people it produces and the talent it fosters. So this book reflects the views of forty or fifty people who have benefited from the King’s experience in a whole variety of ways such as: contact with a unique teacher, meeting a life partner, starting on a career path to the top, developing a sense of identity, becoming radical, or learning to express themselves in music, art or writing.
The roll call of people featured in the book contains unlikely juxtapositions: Lord Clarke, the former Master of the Rolls jostles with Jan Pienkowski, author and illustrator of the Meg and Mog books for children. Tam Dalyell, M.P., former Father of the House of Commons, is a few pages away from Lily Cole, undergraduate, model and actress. Martin Bell, the ‘Man in the White Suit’, war reporter and former independent M.P. is shoulder to shoulder with Simon Hoggart, acerbic Parliamentary sketch writer for the Guardian.
Among others who will appear in the book are Michael Craig Martin, one of the early Artists in Residence at King’s, Suranga Chandratillake, founder of dotcom company Blinkx, Charles Saumarez Smith, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts, Eleanor Sharpston QC, Advocate General at the European Commission, Stephen Bann, Professor of the History of Art, Tansy Troy, teacher, illustrator and traveller, Arzu Merali, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Peter Cave, philosopher, Richard Fortey, geologist and writer, and other current Fellows and students.
The book will be illustrated with photographs by Martin Parr, one of Britain’s leading photographers, and there will be original artwork by Anna Trench, Jan Pienkowski and other artists.
Karl Sabbagh
The roll call of people featured in the book contains unlikely juxtapositions: Lord Clarke, the former Master of the Rolls jostles with Jan Pienkowski, author and illustrator of the Meg and Mog books for children. Tam Dalyell, M.P., former Father of the House of Commons, is a few pages away from Lily Cole, undergraduate, model and actress. Martin Bell, the ‘Man in the White Suit’, war reporter and former independent M.P. is shoulder to shoulder with Simon Hoggart, acerbic Parliamentary sketch writer for the Guardian.
Among others who will appear in the book are Michael Craig Martin, one of the early Artists in Residence at King’s, Suranga Chandratillake, founder of dotcom company Blinkx, Charles Saumarez Smith, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts, Eleanor Sharpston QC, Advocate General at the European Commission, Stephen Bann, Professor of the History of Art, Tansy Troy, teacher, illustrator and traveller, Arzu Merali, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Peter Cave, philosopher, Richard Fortey, geologist and writer, and other current Fellows and students.
The book will be illustrated with photographs by Martin Parr, one of Britain’s leading photographers, and there will be original artwork by Anna Trench, Jan Pienkowski and other artists.
Karl Sabbagh
