Tom Mole is Principal of Van Mildert College, one of the constituent colleges of Durham University, where he is also Professor of English Literature and Book History in the Department of English Studies. He is a fellow of the English Association and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The first in his family to go to university, he received his PhD from the University of Bristol. He has been a professor at McGill University in Montreal and at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Director of the Centre for the History of the Book. He is the author or editor of several books on literature and cultural history, most recently The Secret Life of Books (2019). He has also written for The Big Issue and appeared on In Our Time on Radio Four. His daughter is a pupil at Durham School.
