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Mark Keating was born in North London and has spent most of his life working around the South East selling everything from comic-books to champagne. He now lives and works in Windsor, Berkshire with his partner and son.
Jamie, 38, lives in the Mississippi Delta, where he moved in 2006 to establish an independent bookstore, Turnrow Book Co. Before that he was a bookseller, events coordinator and radio show producer at the renowned Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi. SOIL is his first book.
Thomas Leveritt is half-American, half-British. He is a novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, THE EXCHANGE-RATE BETWEEN LOVE AND MONEY, was hailed as ‘dazzling’ by The Guardian and won both a Betty Trask Award for a first novel and a Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors.
Joshua Levine is an historian and author of bestselling history, including the Sunday Times and New York Times #1 bestseller, Dunkirk, the prize-winning history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Beauty & Atrocity, Operation Fortitude and The
Ishbel Addyman was born in North Yorkshire in 1976. She was educated at Oxford and at the Paul Valery University in Montpelier. She took fencing lessons in preparation for writing about the legendary duellist Cyrano de Bergerac but is not yet up to fighting off 100 assailants single-handedly.
Mark Binelli is the author of the novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.
It is with great sadness that we mark the death of Justin Cartwright.
Born in Birmingham in 1980, John Henry Clay spent much of his childhood visiting historic sites and scrambling over ancient ruins. From an early age he was seized by the twin passions of writing and the past, and so eventually decided to combine them in the realm of historical fiction.