Elisabeth Gifford
Elisabeth Gifford studied French literature and world religions at Leeds University. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway College. Secrets of the Sea House (The Sea House in the US) is shortlisted for the HWA Crown debut. Her second novel Return to Fourwinds is set around the Second World War and explores the cost of having to keep secrets from those you love. Her third novel will follow some of the 1% who escaped the...
Lindsey Davis
Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is known for The Course of Honour, the true story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress Caenis, and for her twenty volume mystery series featuring Roman detective, Falco. Master and God set the scene for Albia in the paranoid reign of Domitian. She has also written Rebels and Traitors, an epic novel set in the English Civil War and Commonwealth; this year she contributes to the Quick Read series,...
Anthony Riches
Anthony Riches holds a degree in Military Studies from Manchester University. He began writing the story that would become the first novel in the Empire series, Wounds of Honour, after visiting Housesteads Roman fort in 1996. He works full time in IT consultancy, and lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three children, although he can occasionally be found roaming Hadrian’s Wall in Roman armour and swearing never to do so...
Robyn Young
Robyn Young was born in Oxford and grew up in the Midlands and Devon. Her first novel, Brethren, went straight into the Sunday Times top ten and became the bestselling hardback debut of 2006. Robyn’s new trilogy is based on the life of Robert Bruce. The third novel, Kingdom, is published June 2014 on the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Alongside writing novels, she has collaborated on a WWII screenplay. Her books have...
Philip Stevens
Philip Stevens is an award-winning film and theatre director. Following critically acclaimed tours of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’, his 2010 Viking short film ‘Northmen’ was nominated for the Polar Film Festival in Scandinavia, The British Society of Cinematographers’ New Cinematography Night, Key Shorts Film Festival and a Royal Television Society award...
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