Kate Forsyth
Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel at the age of seven, and is now the internationally bestselling & award-winning author of thirty books, ranging from picture books to poetry to novels for both adults and children. She was recently voted one of Australia’s Favourite 20 Novelists, and is an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. Her historical novels include The Wild Girl, which tells the...
Conn Iggulden
Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. Stormbird is the first book in his brilliant new series set during the Wars of the Roses, an extraordinary period of British history. The hardback received glowing praise across the media and the second in the series, Trinity, is out this October. His previous two series, on Julius Caesar and on the Mongol Khans of Central Asia, describe the...
Jerome de Groot
Jerome de Groot teaches English Literature at the University of Manchester. He is an expert in the field of Popular History and his work looks at all facets of contemporary historical fiction. He is the author of Royalist Identities (2004), Consuming History (2008) and The Historical Novel (2009). His new book, Remaking History, will come out in 2015....
Elizabeth Chadwick
Elizabeth Chadwick wrote her first historical novel (unpublished) when she was fifteen and immediately decided that it was what she wanted to do for a career. Seventeen years later she got her wish when her novel The Wild Hunt was plucked from leading literary agent Carole Blake’s slush pile and went on to win a Betty Trask Award which was presented to her by HRH Prince Charles. She has since written another 20 novels, including The...