Contributors

Celebrated photographer Murdo Macleod grew up in the Outer Hebrides. He’s been working for the Observer since 1985. He got his first camera as a special offer on a cereal packet – which adds a nostalgic hue to this week’s story on cerealtoy collectors (p17).

Being a married couple as well as being marriage counsellors and relationship therapists, means Matt and Sarah Davies have a unique insight into what keeps a couple ticking along happily – as you can read on p36. They’ve worked for the NHS in psychosexual health and at Tavistock Relationships and have now written a book, You, Me and the Space Between Us.

Journalist, author and screenwriter Terri White lives in the northwest. She’s the former editor of Empire magazine, and specialises in film and TV, class, society and violence against women. She’s made a podcast for the BBC on Britain’s ‘ghost children’ and is adapting her memoir, Coming Undone, for TV. Here, she meets her most influential teacher (p12).