Our Authors

With a particularly eclectic selection of titles and authors, we are committed to producing books that are a pleasure to own and to give, and to ensuring that the story behind the story, can be almost as interesting as the story itself. Here are some of the authors we publish.

CHARLES MOSELEY 

Charles Moseley teaches in the Faculty of English of the University of Cambridge, and is Life Fellow of Hughes Hall. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and of the English Association, and a member of the Society for Nautical Research, of the Classical Association, and of the Arctic Club. He is the author of Latitude North, Between the Tides and a large number of academic titles, as well as the popular translation of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and other titles for Penguin.

jude mackenzie 

Jude is a senior communications practitioner whose roles have included No 10, Christian Aid and the NHS. She’s delivered major projects spanning branding, fundraising, change management and engaging with service users, and also been at the front line of media and crisis management. Her experience at board level means she understands the most difficult of all the arts of communication – how to manage the talented but often difficult people who make communications happen.

RICHARD MAJOR

Like his lethal creation Felix Culpepper, Richard Major has no shortage of academic qualifications, with degress in history, literature and theology, a DPhil at Magdalen College Oxford with a thesis on literary philosophy after the Reformation. But like Felix he’s also travelled widely, studying and teaching in England, Australia, Italy, India, Slovenia, Australia and Hungary as well as his native New Zealand. He lived for many years in Africa and now is to be found in Washington DC.  

jessamy taylor

Jessamy Taylor was born in 1975 and grew up in East Molesey in Surrey. She read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and went on to work in music publishing and in teaching. She lives in North London with her husband and three children. She is currently researching the next in the series of children’s historical adventure novels starring William d’Amory