Kenya born, Irish by blood and UK resident, Ben Kane’s passion for history has taken him to almost 70 countries, and all 7 continents. Fascinated by history, he spent his travels visiting Roman, Greek, Persian, Aztec, indigenous Australian and Native American archaeological sites. He has also walked hundreds of miles in Roman military gear. His novels are commonly seen in the Sunday Times top ten; published in fourrteen languages, they have sold more than a million and a half copies worldwide. A former veterinary surgeon, he lives in Somerset with his children, where he writes full time.

Sunday Times Bestselling Author Anne O’Brien was born in West Yorkshire. After gaining a BA Honours degree in History at Manchester University, a PGCE at Leeds, and a Master’s in Education at Hull, she lived in East Yorkshire for many years as a teacher of history.

Today she has sold a million copies of her books in the UK and internationally. She lives with her husband in an eighteenth-century timber-framed cottage in the depths of the Welsh Marches in Herefordshire, on the border between England and Wales. The area provides endless inspiration for her novels about the forgotten women of medieval history.

Anne’s new book, published in February 2025, is The Queen and The Countess, celebrating the lives of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, both women under duress during the bloody conflict of the Wars of the Roses.

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Angus Donald is the author of the Outlaw Chronicles, a bestselling series of eight novels featuring the legendary hero Robin Hood, and set in the 12th century, during the time of Richard the Lionheart, the Third Crusade, Magna Carta and bad King John. He is also the author of Blood’s Game and Blood’s Revolution, a new 17th-century series featuring the world’s first autistic action hero, Holcroft Blood. The series will chart the career of this famous artillery officer and his friend Jack Churchill, aka the Duke of Marlborough. Under the name Angus Macallan, he’s also writing a fantasy series (The Seven Keys) which will debut in 2019 with “Gates of Stone”.

Angus was born in China in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. He has worked as a fruit-picker in Greece, a waiter in New York and as an anthropologist studying magic and witchcraft in Indonesia. For twenty years, he worked as a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London for a number of national and international newspapers. He left The Times in 2008 after six years on the staff to write novels full-time. He lives in rural Kent with his wife, Mary, and his two young children.

Three time winner of the CWA’s Historical Dagger, Andrew Taylor writes novels that blend crime with historical fiction.  They include the number-one bestsellers, The American Boy and The Ashes of London; the Roth Trilogy (filmed for TV as Fallen Angel); the Lydmouth Series; Bleeding Heart Square; The Anatomy of Ghosts; and his current Marwood and Lovett series set in Restoration England.

His latest novel is a standalone, A Schooling in Murder. It is set in 1945 and will be published on 5 June 2025.

His most recent awards are the CWA Diamond Dagger and Sweden’s Martin Beck Award.  He has reviewed widely, mainly for the Spectator, The Times and the Independent.