S. J. Parris is the pseudonym used by British critic and feature writer Stephanie Merritt, the author of the Giordano Bruno series, a historical thriller series. Stephanie Merritt became Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer in 1998 and left in 2005 to become a full-time writer. She had published her first book, Gaveston, three years…
Susan Wiggs is a best-selling American author known for her historical and contemporary romance novels. She published her first book, the Western historical romance “Texas Wildflower“, in 1987. A few years later, she gave up her teaching career to be a full-time writer. Since then, she wrote two books per year–for a total of more…
Coming from the American author James R. Benn, the Billy Boyle series is a historical series set within the Allied High Command during the Second World War. Back home in Southie, twenty-two-year-old Irish American Billy Boyle barely made a detective when war was declared. He then joined the staff of a general married to her…
Born in 1971, Conn Iggulden is a British author who specialized in historical fiction. He first worked as an English teacher before leaving his position to write his debut novel, The Gates of Rome, the first in a five-part series entitled Emperor and centered around Julius Caesar, from childhood to his death. Iggulden became a…
Born in 1970, Santa Montefiore (née Palmer-Tomkinson) is the daughter of Charles Palmer-Tomkinson, formerly High Sheriff of Hampshire, and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson (née Dawson), of Anglo-Argentine background. She grew up on a farm in Hampshire and was educated at Sherborne School for Girls. Santa Montefiore has always wanted to be a writer. Before publishing books, she…
Liz Trenow is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. She didn’t start her career writing fiction, but working as a journalist. She spent fifteen years working for regional and national newspapers, and BBC radio and television news, before turning her hand to fiction. Liz Trenow has written wartime stories,…
A former journalist who worked for all the national newspapers, Nancy Revell also wrote inspirational true-life stories for woman’s magazines. Now she’s still writing about women, but ones that are from the past. The Shipyard Girls series is set in the North-East of England during World War II and follows the women who go to…
Robert Harris is a former journalist and, of course, an English novelist. He studied English literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and went on to become a journalist, working for the BBC and various newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph. and The Sunday Times. In 1982, He began working in the non-fiction genre before becoming known for…
Written by Canadian author Joseph Robert Janes, The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries is a historical crime series set in Occupied France during World War II. Police inspector Jean Luis St. Cyr of the Sûreté Nationale watches the German tanks roll into Paris from his office window. When Gestapo agents burst through his door, he is…
Written by the American crime writer, poet, critic, essayist-and more… -James Sallis, author of the book Drive, The Lew Griffin series is a noir mystery series from New Orleans. More precisely, the series follows the investigations of Lew Griffin who is an African-American private detective, teacher, writer, poet, and functioning alcoholic. Lew has a specialty,…
Written by Kathy Lynn Emerson, under the pseudonym Kate Emerson, The Secrets of The Tudor Court is historical non-mystery fiction set in the 16th century about real women at the court of Henry VIII. Not to be confused with Secrets of the Tudor Court by D.L. Bogdan. Published between 2009 and 2012, The Secret of…
Previously known as ‘The Warrior Chronicles/Saxon Stories’, The Last Kingdom Series is the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants through the eyes of Uhtred Ragnarson. More precisely, written by Bernard Cornwell, this series chronicles the emergence of England as a nation on the island of Britain from the actions of King Alfred of…
