Clare Mulley, FRHistS, is an award-winning author and broadcaster, primarily focused on female experience during the Second World War.

Books include AGENT ZO, telling the hidden story of Elżbieta Zawacka, the only woman to parachute from Britain to enemy occupied-Poland during the Second World War, which was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Non Fiction, and awarded Silver in the Military History Matters prize. THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER, the remarkable story of Nazi Germany’s only two female test pilots, one of whom tried to save Hitler’s life while the other tried to kill him, was longlisted for the HWA nonfiction prize. The story of Britain’s first female special agent of the Second World War, Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’, Polish born Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville, is told in THE SPY WHO LOVED, which led to Clare receiving the Polish national cultural honour, the Bene Merito. THE LIBRARY BOOK tells the sometimes scandalous story of an independent library with a remarkable collection. Clare’s first book, THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN, tells the inspiring story of Eglantyne Jebb, controversial founder of Save the Children, and won the Daily Mail Biographers Club Prize.

Clare writes and reviews for journals including the Spectator, TLS and BBC History Magazine, and has judged both the HWA nonfiction prize and the Slightly Foxed Biographers Club prize. Popular on pods such as History Hit, BBC History and We Have Ways, and radio including Women’s Hour, The Today Programme and Great Lives, she also is a TV regular, contributing to the BBC’s Second World War commemorations, Rise of the Nazis series, Newsnight and The One Show, as well as many series for Channel 5, Channel 4, the History Channel, and Sky.

Clare lives in Essex with the sculptor Ian Wolter, too many books, and a hairy grey lurcher who needs more baths. www.claremulley.com