Leonora Nattrass

Leonora Nattrass lectured on the literature and politics of the 18th century for almost ten years before running away to Cornwall, where she now lives in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts and knits the wool of her small flock of Ryeland sheep into complicated jumpers.

Her first novel, Black Drop, was a Times Book of the Year and her second, Blue Water, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger and longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Her third, Scarlet Town was a Telegraph book of the year and shortlisted for the CWA historical dagger.