Authors
Sean F. Ennis
Non-fiction
Professor Sean F. Ennis studied at King’s College, Cambridge and then earned a PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. His career has included economic market analyses for governments, academia and the private sector. After more than two decades working on economic and regulatory topics at the OECD, the European Commission and the US Department of Justice, he is now a Professor at the University of East Anglia in England. He has advised and taught in more than 25 countries, and lived in London, Mauritius, Paris and Washington, DC. His interests include good food, European history and minimalist travel. He is married and has four children.
Take advantage of an opportunity to meet with Sean and discuss his uncommon ideas when you can; his itinerant family may always go off to explore new city wildernesses.
John Dial
Fiction
John Dial grew up surrounded by books He wrote his first novel when he was twelve. He has regularly written since that time though preferred to keep this exercise intimate for himself and close friends. With proclivities for living in a cave, he leaves no trace but is slowly revealing a public face. Marked by the story of the last great costume party in Venice, Count Beistegui's Bal Oriental, he lives for anonymity and is ready to show himself as long as no one can see him. Leaving few traces, like an itinerant and invisible minstrel.
He nonetheless leaves us one clue: he finds his roots in an English village where streets weave and athletes, trains and naturalists almost intersected.
Valérie Génique
Fiction
Valérie is a traveller by nature, a bit of a dreamer and a mother. She has always been interested in traditional forms of politeness and living with others. She grew up in the outskirts of Paris, before working for companies that were among the largest groups on the French stock exchange. She made a conscious decision to leave them and develop her own business with a concept of service built around the human, including a combination of discretion, attention to detail and elegance.