Sally O’Reilly
Sally O’Reilly has worked as a journalist and editor and freelanced for the Guardian, Sunday Times and New Scientist. She is the author of two contemporary novels, The Best Possible Taste and You Spin Me Round, both published by Penguin books (2004 and 2007). Her debut historical novel Dark Aemilia was published by Myriad Editions in the UK in March 2014, and by Picador US in May 2014. Sally has also written short stories published in...
Clare Morrall
Clare Morrall was born in Exeter and now lives in Birmingham. She works as a music teacher and has two daughters. Her first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 by Tindal Street Press and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She has since published four novels: Natural Flights of the Human Mind, which is being adapted for a film, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, which was a TV Book Club...
Douglas Jackson
Douglas Jackson lives in Bridge of Allan and is the author of the historical novels Caligula, Claudius, Hero of Rome, Defender of Rome, Avenger of Rome and Sword of Rome. His latest, Enemy of Rome, continues the critically acclaimed Valerius Verrens series, and was published on August 28. Doug was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders and his first job after leaving school was restoring a Roman marching camp in the Cheviot Hills....
Helen Hollick
Helen is published in the UK and the US with her books about King Arthur and the 1066 Battle of Hastings, officially making the USA Today best seller list with her novel Forever Queen. She also writes a series of historical adventure seafaring books inspired by her love of the Golden Age of Piracy. As a firm supporter of independent authors, publishers and bookstores, she is the Managing Editor for HNS Indie Reviews. This year she has...
Antonia Hodgson
Antonia Hodgson was born in Derby and studied English at the University of Leeds. She has worked in publishing for over fifteen years and is Editor-in-Chief at Little, Brown UK. When she is not writing or working or watching Game of Thrones she enjoys reading eighteenth-century murder confessions in the British Library. She does not react well to people who say The Smiths are depressing. THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is her debut novel....