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.

 

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.

 

Greetings! Until now, I have been a crime writer, writing books about a hardboiled lawyer from Gibraltar called Spike Sanguinetti. But now I have ‘pivoted’, as they say these days, to historical fiction, and under the name TL Mogford have written a novel called ‘The Planthunter’, set in the febrile world of Victorian plant-hunting. Do check it out if you have a moment!

Ellen Alpsten was born and raised in the Kenyan highlands, before attending L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Whilst studying for her Msc in PPE she won the Grande École short story competition with her novella Meeting Mr. Gandhi and was encouraged to continue writing.

Upon graduating, she worked as a producer and presenter for Bloomberg TV in London: knowing no-one and working gruesome night shifts on breakfast TV, she started to write in earnest, every day, after work and a nap. Tsarina, the first and only account of the incredible rise of Catherine I of Russia from serf to Empress, is her debut novel.

Today, Ellen works as an author and as a journalist for international publications such as  Vogue, Standpoint and CN Traveller. She lives in London with her husband, three children and a chubby, moody fox-red Labrador.