I was born in Venezuela in 1961 and grew up with my parents and two brothers in London. After school in Hampton, I spent a year working at the Old Vic Theatre before reading English at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

I then joined the BBC as a production trainee, but after a few years succumbed to a hankering for Fleet Street and moved to The Sunday Times. I spent many cheerful years at The Daily Telegraph as media correspondent, but my single most exciting moment in that time was getting a publishing contract for my first novel.

In particular I have a passion for historical fiction and love the research that involves. IN the UK the Clara Vine series is published by Simon & Schuster. Outside Britain, my novels have been translated into French, German and Italian. In France the series is published by J.C Lattes and in Greece by Kedros. In the US and Canada the series is published by Random House.

As well as writing books I now freelance as a journalist, writing regularly for numerous British magazines and newspapers, and also appear as a broadcaster on Radio 4.

I have three children and live in London.

I am Hunter S. Jones from Atlanta, GA, USA, The art form I create when writing is much more interesting than anything you will ever know or learn about me. However, since you ask, I have lived in Tennessee and Georgia my entire life, except for one “lost summer” spent in Los Angeles. I was always a complex kid. My first published stories were for a local underground rock publication in Nashville. Since then, I have published articles on music, fashion, art, travel and history. Currently, I have a blog on ExpatsPost.com which features independent writers, musicians and actors. Never a dull moment.

 

Justin Hill has been likened to a George Orwell, a boxer, and Tolstoy.  He attended the same school as Guy Fawkes and has so far avoided the temptation to blow up parliament. He is currently working on his Conquest Trilogy, which re-examines the characters and events surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The first, Shieldwall, told the story of Earl Godwin and the Danish Conquest of 1016. It was a 2011 Sunday Times Book of the Year.

The second, Viking Fire, which chronicles the life of Harald Hardrada, is due out in 2016.

Justin has won a number of prestigious prizes for his work. His internationally acclaimed first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse (chosen by the Washington Post as one of the Best Novels of 2001) won the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a 2002 Betty Trask Award, and was banned by the government in China.  His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, a retelling of the life of Tang Dynasty Poetess, Yu Xuanji, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Ciao Asmara, a factual account of his time in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.  He was also chosen to write the movie tie-in for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Green Legend, which will be out in 2016.

He lives in the Howardian Hills, North Yorkshire.

 

Yvonne Lyon is the author of adult debut novel, ‘Kept’. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University and has had short stories and poetry published in a number of anthologies.

Hester Musson’s debut novel, The Beholders, was a Times bestseller, a Sunday Times historical book of the month and shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown in 2024. Her second novel, The Night Hag, was published in February 2026, also by 4th Estate.

She grew up in Leicestershire and studied English Literature at Bristol University, later completing a master’s in drama at the RCS in Glasgow. She was an actress and autocue operator (among other things) in London before writing full time and now lives in Scotland.