Ann Chamberlin
Ann Chamberlin is the author of fourteen historical novels and a non-fiction History Of Women’s Seclusion in The Middle East. Her trilogy set in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire was on the bestsellers list in Turkey for over six months. She is the author of many plays which have been produced across the US from Seattle to New York. JIHAD, produced by New Perspectives Theatre in New York City, won The Off-Off Broadway...
Bryan Crockett
Bryan Crockett, Ph.D., teaches and writes as a professor of English literature at Loyola University Maryland. His first novel, Love’s Alchemy, short-listed for the HNS Novel Award and the Tuscany Prize, features the brilliant, tormented poet and adventurer John Donne as he attempts to outwit the Machiavellian politician Robert Cecil. Love’s Alchemy will be released by Five Star in March, 2015. Review copies are available...
Hazel Gaynor
Hazel Gaynor is a novelist and freelance writer. Her debut novel THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME – A Novel of the Titanic (William Morrow/HarperCollins) was published in April 2014 and quickly became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Hazel was the recipient of the 2012 Cecil Day Lewis award for Emerging Writers and is a guest blogger and features writer for national Irish writing website writing.ie for which she has interviewed...
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a crime and historical novelist, winner of the Cartier Diamond Dagger and other awards. He is the only person to have won the Historical Dagger three times. His books include the international bestseller, The American Boy (a Richard and Judy selection); the Roth Trilogy (filmed for TV as Fallen Angel); the Lydmouth Series; Bleeding Heart Square; The Anatomy of Ghosts; Broken Voices, an Edwardian ghost story; The Scent...
Elisabeth Gifford
Elisabeth Gifford studied French literature and world religions at Leeds University. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway College. Secrets of the Sea House (The Sea House in the US) is shortlisted for the HWA Crown debut. Her second novel Return to Fourwinds is set around the Second World War and explores the cost of having to keep secrets from those you love. Her third novel will follow some of the 1% who escaped the...
Lindsey Davis
Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is known for The Course of Honour, the true story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress Caenis, and for her twenty volume mystery series featuring Roman detective, Falco. Master and God set the scene for Albia in the paranoid reign of Domitian. She has also written Rebels and Traitors, an epic novel set in the English Civil War and Commonwealth; this year she contributes to the Quick Read series,...