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...
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....
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