Camilla Moreau is an author of queer historical fiction with magical elements. She has a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick. Originally from Wiltshire, she now lives in North London with her fiancée. She works in book marketing.

She can be found online on Instagram and Threads.

She also writes gothic historical fiction under the name Carmella Lowkis.

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I’m a writer and editor. I spent 20 years writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet and Bradt Travel Guides, and by day I’m now the editor for an Antarctic travel website.

My first history book, ‘Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom’ was published in 2023 by Hurst Publishers. It was based on deep archival research in the UK, the USA and the Caribbean, as well as field work carried out in Haiti during a year spent living in Port-au-Prince.

As well as Haiti, I’ve lived and worked in Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon and Fiji. Home is now Bristol in the west of England, with my partner and the street cat we rescued from the Fes medina.

Dr Elizabeth Norton is a British historian specialising in queenship and the Tudor period. Her most recent book is the critically acclaimed Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy (Footnote, 2025), while she is also the author of The Lives of Tudor Women (Head of Zeus, 2016) and The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor (Head of Zeus, 2015), as well as biographies of four of Henry VIII’s wives and England’s Queens: The Biography (Amberley, 2010). She also publishes academically, including the forthcoming Jane Seymour: Patronage, Material Culture and Image Crafting (Routledge, 2026). She regularly appears as an expert contributor or presenter on television, including BBC2’s The Boleyns, A Scandalous Family (on which she also acted as historical consultant), BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are?, Channel 4’s Digging Up Britain’s Past and Channel 5’s Queen Victoria in Her Own Words. She acts as a consultant for film and television, including Firebrand (2023) and series currently in production for BBC1 and ITV.

Leah is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Her first book Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World won the Royal Philharmonic Storytelling Award 2024, a Presto Music Books of the Year Award 2023, and was shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography 2023. Unsung: Women Musicians of the Second World War publishes in 2027, and received a 2024 Whiting Creative Non-Fiction Grant.

Winner of the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism, Leah’s journalism has appeared in outlets including the Guardian, ​Financial Times, Observer, New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, London Review of Books, Prospect, BBC Music Magazine, Literary Review, London Magazine, Opera Now, VAN Magazine, Bachtrack, Huffington Post, and The Conversation. Leah has written articles and programme notes for Glyndebourne, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Longborough Festival Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and the Elgar Festival among others.

Leah was selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2016, so is frequently on air discussing music and history. As a public speaker, Leah has appeared at events and venues including the BBC Proms, Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charleston Literary Festival, Buxton International Festival, Harrogate International Festivals, Elgar Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, Charleston Literary Festival, Seamus Heaney Home Place, Snape Maltings, Being Human Festival, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Free Thinking Festival.

Leah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has writing published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music & Letters, TEMPO, and Music and the Moving Image, as well as in edited volumes for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Boydell & Brewer. For 2025, she was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

Dr James Turner attended the University of Glasgow before completing his doctoral studies at Durham University. Deeply afraid of numbers and palaeography, his main research interests surround medieval aristocratic culture and identity. Over the last few years, he has been increasingly fascinated by globalism in the Middle Ages. As someone with Learning Difficulties he is a strong advocate of the need to make high quality historical research increasingly accessible to the public.