Midge Gillies is rarely happier than when she’s in an archive or talking to someone about the past. Her favourite period is World War Two.

Her books include biographies of the record-breaking pilot, Amy Johnson (Amy Johnson: Queen of the Air, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003) and the Edwardian music hall star, Marie Lloyd (Marie Lloyd, The One and Only, Gollancz, 1999). Her new book, Piccadilly, The Circus at the Heart of London was published by Two Roads in October 2022.

In The Barbed-Wire University (Aurum, 2012) she writes about Prisoners of War and creativity in what Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian described as “one of the best war books I have ever read”.

She has also written about Britain in 1940  (Waiting for Hitler, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007) and the lives of military spouses (Army Wives, From the Crimea to Afghanistan, the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform, Aurum, 2017).

Writing Lives: Literary Biography (CUP, 2009) and Literary Non-Fiction (A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion, written with Sal Cline, 2015) both examine aspects of creative non-fiction.

She is Academic Director of Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and is married to the award-winning novelist, Jim Kelly (who also writes as JG Kelly). They live in the Fens with a cat called Midnight and an Irish terrier called Scout.

Julie Walker is a writer whose debut novel ‘Bonny & Read’ will be published by Hodder & Stoughton 2 August 2022. She has been longlisted for both the Mslexia Novel Prize and for the Bath Novel Award, and was a student on an early Curtis Brown Creative course where she worked on this book.

She was born in the North East of England and currently lives in North London, where she is working on her second book.

Welcome to my author page!

My debut novel, A Knight’s Duty, was published in April 2022 by London-based Sharpe Books. A Knight’s Duty is based on the life of 14th century Northumberland knight Thomas Gray, who fought in the First War of Scottish Independence and whose exploits are chronicled in his son’s treatise on English history, Scalacronica.

My second novel, The Failed Apprentice, was published in December 2022, also by Sharpe Books and is the first in a series of three books set in Tudor England, featuring protagonist Will Patten. It’s follow up should be out later in 2023.

Both books are available in kindle and paperback on Amazon.

As for me, I currently split my time between New York and South Carolina, where I live with my husband and two Jack Russell Terriers. In my free time I enjoy golf, running, reading, and a good single malt.

Originally from Central Pennsylvania but now living in South Wales, Joseph Dragovich writes narrative history, primarily about eighteenth-century crime, but has recently dabbled in the strange stories of 20th-century technology.

His book, Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption and Britain’s Most Notorious Smuggling Gang, tells the story of Britain’s most dangerous smugglers, the Hakwhurst Gang.

Susan C Wilson is a working-class Scottish writer. She developed a passion for ancient Greece during childhood, after stumbling across tales of gods and heroes while browsing the dictionary for naughty words. She loves to explore what makes us human: the eternal motivations, desires and instincts that cross time and place.

While researching her novels, she gained a diploma in Classical Studies from the Open University. She also has a degree in Journalism from Edinburgh Napier University. Most recently, she completed a Minoans and Mycenaeans course from the University of Oxford. The House of Atreus trilogy is published by Neem Tree Press.​

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Amanda Cockrell is the author of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? a novel of the Hollywood blacklist; Coyote Weather, a novel of the Vietnam War era; and the young adult novel What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay.

Writing as Damion Hunter, she is the author of nine Roman novels: The Borderlands series, concluding with Birds of Prey; The Centurions series; The Legions of the Mist, and its sequel The Wall at the Edge of the World.

As Amanda Cockrell, she is also the author of The Deer Dancers and The Horse Catchers trilogies, set in the pre-Columbian Americas.

She holds a master’s degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University and before retiring, she was director of the university’s graduate program in children’s literature, and also taught creative writing and children’s literature in the university’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program and Creative Writing MFA program. She has received fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.