Katie Hickman
Katie Hickman is the author of eight books including two bestselling works of non-fiction Daughters of Britannia - in the Sunday Times bestseller lists for ten months and a twenty part series for BBC Radio 4 - and Courtesans. She has also written a trilogy of historical novels - The Aviary Gate The Pindar Diamond and The House of Bishopgate - which have been translated into twenty languages. Her other books include two highly acclaimed travel books including Travels with a Mexican Circus which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Born into a diplomatic family she had a peripatetic childhood growing up in Spain Ireland Singapore and South America; she has two children and lives in London.