David R. Gillham is a New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction. His work includes City of Women (2012), Annelies (2019) and Shadows of Berlin (2022)
Having studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California before transitioning into fiction, David Gillham relocated to New York City, spending more than a decade in the book business. He now lives with his family in Western Massachusetts.
Judith Mackrell is the critically acclaimed author of The Unfinished Palazzo and Flappers. She is also a celebrated dance critic, and her biography of the ballerina Lydia Lopokova, Bloomsbury Ballerina, was short-listed for ...more
Tony Tetro is a world-renowned art forger who has produced countless pieces that have easily passed as the work of the Masters from Rembrandt to Monet to Picasso to Dali. For over forty-five years, Tetro's work duped the art ...more
Nadifa Mohamed was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. At the age of four she moved with her family to London. She is the author of Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. She has received both ...more
Shashi Bhat's fiction has won the Writers' Trust / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her stories have appeared in...more
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Marie Benedict
Marie Benedict's historical fiction sheds light on the lives of key historical women. Her recent books have explored the lives of Rosalind Franklin, whose work was central to unlocking the mystery of DNA structure; the mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie; and Winston Churchill's wife, Lady Clementine; and, more recently, the lives of the Mitford sisters.
Robert Kanigel
Robert Kanigel talks about is 2022 memoir, Young Man, Muddled
Claire Jimenez
Claire Jiménez discusses her debut novel, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez.
Kevin Jared Hosein
An author's note by Kevin Jared Hosein about his first novel, Hungry Ghosts, set in the Caribbean in the 1940s
Parini Shroff
Parini Shroff talks how a visit home in India inspired her debut novel, The Bandit Queens
Eleanor Shearer
Eleanor Shearer discusses her first novel, River Sing Me Home, her inspiration to write the story, and the extensive research she carried out to write it.
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