Carol McGrath is the author of The Daughters of Hastings Trilogy. The first in the series, The Handfasted Wife, was published by Accent Press in 2013. The Swan-Daughter, the second will be published on September 18^th as an e publication followed by general paperback distribution early in December. The Betrothed Sister will be published in 2015.

Carol McGrath has a degree in English and Russian Studies from Queens University Belfast with History as subsidiary. She specialized in Medieval History. She taught History and English for many years in an Oxfordshire Comprehensive. She also was History Head of Department at one point in her career before becoming part-time. Carol has an MA in Creative Writing from QUB and an Mphil from Royal Holloway, University of London. Carol McGrath lives in Oxfordshire and is currently published by Accent Press.    

 

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 12 novels featuring the legendary hero Robin Hood, and set in the 12th and 13th centuries. He is also the author of the Blood trilogy, a 17th-century series featuring unusual but brilliant artillery officer, Holcroft Blood, son of the notorious Crown Jewels thief Colonel Thomas Blood. He has penned five Viking Fire Born novels, beginning with The Last Berserker, and he is now writing the Mongol Knight trilogy, a series based in the extraordinary true story of the Englishman who fought for Genghis Khan. Templar Traitor, Book 1 of the series, is out now; Book 2, Templar Assassin will be out in August 2026.

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 fifteen 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.