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Elizabeth Fremantle

Elizabeth Fremantle

31/03/2015 by Liz Fremantle

Elizabeth Fremantle is the award winning author of Disobedient (HWA Gold Crown 2024). Set in seventeenth century Rome, it focuses on a year in the life of the remarkable painter and prodigy Artemisia Gentileschi. Another Rome-set novel, Sinners, publishes in July 2025, about the tragic Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.

Elizabeth’s first novel, Queen’s Gambit was adapted for the screen as Firebrand, starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law. The film premiered in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2023, screened in cinemas in 2024 and is now streaming on Prime UK. A revised edition of the novel was published under the title Firebrand.

Fremantle is also the author of a quartet of novels set in the late Tudor period with the emphasis on women and power. Under the name E C Fremantle she has written two Stuart set historical thrillers The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages.

She has contributed to a number of publications, including, The Sunday Times, Vogue uk, Vogue Paris, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. She also mentors aspiring writers.

She lives in London.

‘Fremantle is surely a major new voice in historical fiction.’ The bookseller

Published works:

Disobedient

Disobedient

Firebrand

Firebrand

Sinners

Sinners

The Honey and the Sting

The Honey and the Sting

The Poison Bed

The Poison Bed

The Girl in the Glass Tower

The Girl in the Glass Tower

Watch the Lady

Watch the Lady

Sisters of Treason

Sisters of Treason

Queen’s Gambit

Queen’s Gambit

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Writes about:

  • 16th Century
  • 17th Century

Is similar to:

  • Tracy Borman
  • Emily Hauser
  • Miranda Malins
  • Patricia Lennan
  • Naomi Kelsey
  • Nadine Akkerman
  • Annie Garthwaite
  • Carolyn Kirby
  • Vayu Naidu
  • Anna Mazzola
  • Elodie Harper
  • Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Deborah Swift

Is located in:

  • London and South-East

Is online at:

  • Website
  • Twitter

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