Sandra Alvarez
Sandra is co-founder and owner, with Peter Konieczny, of Medievalists.net, a website for people interested in the Middle Ages, including scholars, writers, historians, readers and anyone who enjoys medieval history or culture. The website creates a central online hub for news, resources and videos on medieval topics. Sandra is Canadian, but now lives in London. When not running her history empire, she works as social media manager for...
Prof Diana Wallace
Diana is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales. Her teaching and research focuses mainly on women’s writing, with special interests in historical fiction and the Female Gothic. She teaches the first year module, ‘Reading/Writing Women’, a second year module on ‘Modernism’, and the third year module ‘Historical Fictions: Women Writing the Past.’ She also teaches the following MA modules: ‘Gothic Histories’,...
Maureen Lee
Maureen Lee was born in Bootle, England, UK, near Liverpool during World War II. She attended Commercial College and became a shorthand typist. She married Richard, and they have three sons, now adults. They currently live in Colchester, Essex. She published over one hundred and fifty short-stories, before publishing her first novel, Lila, in 1983. Since 1994 she has continued to publish dramatic historical sagas mainly set in her...
Martin Sutton
Martin Sutton won the inaugural 2013 Historical Novel Society International Award, with a prize of £5,000, for his novel Lost Paradise. Lost Paradise tells of William Pascoe, a young gardener on the Heligan estate in Cornwall, who is wrenched away from a blossoming but difficult romance to fight at the front on the Somme. W H Smith Travel fiction buyer Matthew Bates, described Lost Paradise as a “haunting, generational novel of war,...
Hallie Rubenhold
In 2005, Hallie’s first non-fiction book, The Covent Garden Ladies was published to great acclaim. This true story of a notorious guidebook to Georgian London’s prostitutes grabbed hold of the public imagination and served as the inspiration for two separate art exhibitions, two television programmes and a student film. The Harlots Handbook, the BBC’s documentary based on The Covent Garden Ladies (first broadcast in 2006) was...
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