Sue Reid began scribbling stories when she was a child, but it was only when she had grown up and tried several other careers that she decided to see if she could get published. Her first book, Mill Girl, was published in 2002 by Scholastic and since then she has published several more books for children and young adults. She has always had a passion for history and is at her  happiest when writing about the past.

Essie Fox is the traditionally published, Sunday Times Best-selling author of gothic historical mystery novels. Essie has been shortlisted for the National Book Awards, has featured on Channel 4’s TV Book Club, has been selected for You Magazine’s Book of the Month, and The Times Historical Novel of the Month. She has appeared at various literary events, including panel discussions for the Historical Novel Conferences, and has lectured at the V&A, and the National Gallery in London.

Essie’s novels, in chronological order, are: The Somnambulist. Elijah’s Mermaid. The Goddess and the Thief. The Last Days of Leda Grey. The Fascination.

Dangerous, her sixth novel will be published on April 24th 2025, and is a vampiric murder mystery based on real events surrounding Lord Byron’s tumultuous life in Venice, in 1819.

More information, including contact details, can be found on her author website:

http://www.essiefox.com

Sara Sheridan is mostly an historical novelist, though from time to time she  writes in different genres and media including for children.
She has two series of historical novels –  cosy crime noir set in Brighton in the 1950s – the Mirabelle Bevan Mysteries – and a faction series of stories based on the real-life stories of late Georgian and early Victorian explorers and adventurers ((1820 – 1845).
An occasional journalist and blogger, Sara appears  on BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent and on Women’s Hour as an expert on the history of the lady She blogs for the Guardian, the BBC, the Huffington Post and the London Review of Books. She appears as a cultural and political commentator on both television and radio.

A twitter evangelist and  a self-confessed swot, Sara sat for three years on the Committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland where she lives and four years on the board of the UK-wide writers’ collective ’26’ during which time she took part in the acclaimed 26 Treasures project in 2010 at the V&A, in 2011 at National Museum of Scotland and in 2012 at the Children’s Museum, Bethnal Green. Sara loves events of all stripes from Book Festivals to libraries to the (slightly scary sounding) Literary Death Match.

After a career in national newspapers, Rory Clements now lives in a 17th century farmhouse in Norfolk and writes full-time. His historical thrillers featuring intelligencer John Shakespeare have been sold to 11 countries. The first in the series, Martyr, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2010. Revenger, the second book, won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award 2010 and the third in the series, Prince, is shortlisted for the same award in 2011.

R.N. (Roger) Morris’s latest book is Fortune’s Hand, a novel about Sir Walter Raleigh.

He is also the author of The St. Petersburg Mysteries, a series of novels featuring Porfiry Petrovich, the investigating magistrate from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Set in nineteenth century Russia, the novels are A Gentle Axe, A Vengeful Longing, A Razor Wrapped in Silk and The Cleansing Flames.

His more recent books are set in London immediately before the outbreak of the First World War and feature the decidedly unconventional sleuth, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn: Summon Up The Blood, The Mannequin House, The Dark Palace, The Red Hand of Fury, The White Feather Killer and The Music Box Enigma.

A Vengeful Longing was shortlisted for the 2008 CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger for best crime novel, runner-up in New York Magazine’s Culture Awards for 2008 in the best thriller category, and Highly Commended for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Novel Award 2008. It was also picked out by Crime Squad as one of the top ten crime books of 2008. The Cleansing Flames was shortlisted for the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.

Besides writing novels, Roger has also collaborated with the composer Ed Hughes on an opera.

Robert Fabbri was born in Geneva in 1961. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital School, Horsham and London University. He worked for twenty-five years as an assistant director in the film and television industries.
Having had his fair share of long, cold nights standing in the rain in muddy fields and unbearably hot days in deserts or stuffy sound stages he decided to start writing.
Being a life-long ancient war-gamer with a collection of over 3,500 hand-painted 25mm lead soldiers and a lover of Roman Historical Fiction the subject matter was obvious.
His first novel, Vespasian: Tribune of Rome, was published in May 2011 by Corvus, the genre imprint of Atlantic. The second book, Rome’s Executioner, will be published in May 2012. With the third book, The False God of Rome, already complete he has just embarked on book four which has a working title of Rome’s Fallen Eagle.
There will be seven books in the series as well as spin-off short stories revolving around Vespasian’s friend Magnus and his crossroads brethren; the first of these, The Crossroads Brotherhood, was published on Kindle on 25th December 2011.