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....
James Heneage
James Heneage has been fascinated by history from an early age, in particular the rise and fall of empires. He was the founder of the Ottakar’s chain of bookshops which, between 1987 and 2006 grew to 150 branches before being bought by Waterstones. James spent these twenty years reading and researching historical subjects before settling on the end of the Byzantine Empire as the period he wanted to write about. After Ottakar’s, he...
Margaret George
MARGARET GEORGE specializes in biographical novels of epic personalities. She has written about Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene, Helen of Troy and Elizabeth Tudor. She is currently at work on a novel about the Emperor Nero. All these have been New York Times bestsellers, and have been translated into twenty-one languages. The Cleopatra novel was made into an Emmy-nominated ABC-TV miniseries in 1999. She has...
Jean Fullerton
Jean was born in East End of London and grew up a short walk from the London Docks in Wapping and Whitechapel. She is a qualified district nurse and started writing thirteen years ago to relieve work-place stress. Jean was born in East End of London and grew up a short walk from the London Docks in Wapping and Whitechapel. She is also a qualified district nurse. In 2006 Jean won the Harry Bowling prize, which secured her a two-book...
Elizabeth Fremantle
Elizabeth Fremantle is the author of two Tudor court novels published by Penguin: Queen’s Gambit tells the story of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr, and Sisters of Treason shines a light on the lives of Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, the younger sisters of the tragic Lady Jane. She holds a BA in English and an MA in creative Writing from Birkbeck and has contributed to various publications including Vogue, Elle,...
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