Janet Gleeson

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1. Janet Gleeson

   Author of The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story, Millionaire : The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance, The Thief Taker: A Novel

2. Giles Milton

   Author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History, Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan, Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America

3. Peter Ackroyd

   Author of London: The Biography, Hawksmoor, The House of Doctor Dee

4. Simon Winchester

   Author of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Outposts

5. Flora Fraser

   Author of Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline, Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire

6. Louis Bayard

   Author of The Pale Blue Eye, Mr. Timothy, The Black Tower

7. Ross King

   Author of Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling, Ex-Libris

8. Francine Mathews

   Author of Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, Jane and the Man of the Cloth, A Flaw in the Blood

9. Ariana Franklin

   Author of Mistress of the Art of Death, A Catch of Consequence

10. C. J. Sansom

    Author of Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign

11. Mike Dash

    Author of Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny, Tulipomania

12. Stella Tillyard

    Author of Aristocrats, A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings

13. Tasha Alexander

    Author of And Only to Deceive, A Poisoned Season

14. David Liss

    Author of A Conspiracy of Paper, A Spectacle of Corruption

15. Antonia Fraser

    Author of Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

16. Charles Palliser

    Author of The Quincunx, The Unburied

17. Deanna Raybourn

    Author of Silent in the Grave, Silent in the Sanctuary

18. Lauren Willig

    Author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, The Masque of the Black Tulip

19. David Ewing Duncan

    Author of The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days

20. Clare Clark

    Author of The Great Stink, The Nature of Monsters