Annamaria Alfieri
Aug29

Annamaria Alfieri

Annamaria Alfieri is the author of Strange Gods, set in the burgeoning British East African town of Nairobi in 1911. Kirkus said of it, “Alfieri aims for the audience who loved Out of Africa, with heartbreaking romance married to a complex mystery.” Her previous historical mysteries, which are all set in South America, have garnered critical acclaim. The Christian Science Monitor chose her Blood Tango as one of ten must-read...

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Richard Lee
Jul25

Richard Lee

Richard Lee founded the Historical Novel Society in 1997 after trying to join it, only to find it didn’t exist. The society has since developed in many unforeseen ways, following the enthusiasms of the active membership, with Richard trying to keep as light a hand on the tiller as possible. It is with bemusement but great pride that he regards the society’s robust health seventeen years on. Richard has been involved with the...

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Bernadine Kennedy
Jul25

Bernadine Kennedy

Bernardine Kennedy is the author of many novels all of which are based around family and relationship issues. Her books are gritty and occasionally violent, however there is often a lighthearted element, a touch of glitz and a satisfactory ending. Bernardine was born in London but spent most of her childhood with her ex-pat parents in Singapore and Nigeria before settling in Essex. Her diverse and varied working life has included...

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Michael Dean
Jul25

Michael Dean

Michael Dean studied history at Worcester College, Oxford and has a Master’s in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University. Michael Dean has written five novels, four of which touch on art in various ways and to varying degrees. They are I, Hogarth (Duckworth/Overlook),...

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Alicia Foster
Jul25

Alicia Foster

Alicia Foster trained as an art historian before becoming a novelist. Warpaint is her first novel (Penguin, Figtree, 2013), and third published book. Previous publications include Gwen John, a monograph drawing on her doctoral research (Tate/Princeton, 1999), and Tate Women Artists, the first complete survey of women represented in the Tate collections (Tate, 2004). Her next novel is set in the early 1920s in Yorkshire and will tell...

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Deborah Harkness
Jul25

Deborah Harkness

Deborah Harkness is a professor of history and teaches European history and the history of science at the University of Southern California. She has published two works of historical non-fiction, John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature (1999) and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (2007). In 2011, Harkness published her first work of fiction, A Discovery of...

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