What I Believe is out today – a new collection of interview essays with non-religious people in the public eye including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig, Tim Minchin, Alice Roberts, and many more. Covering enormous ground, these interviews powerfully link personal stories to themes that touch on what it means to be human – spanning art, politics, history, campaigning and activism, the environment, human nature, growing up, and growing old.

It was a pleasure to interview so many inspirational humanists for this book, and to follow in the footsteps of Bertrand Russell and E M Forster, whose What I Believe essays once opened a window to the different humanist perspectives of their day. The humanist view of life is progressive and dynamic. All ideas, values, and beliefs are open to question and in readers will find within these pages not just inspiration but also a deeper sense of connection to the shared human experience.