Samantha Giles

Samantha Giles is better known as an actor. Her most memorable role being regular character Bernice Blackstock in British Soap opera 'Emmerdale', which she played for 7 years, leaving in November 2019. She also played regular character Sally Boothe in 3 series of ITV drama 'Where The Heart Is' as well as countless other TV guest roles and leads in theatre productions.

She started writing after a vivid dream she had and the result is her debut novel Rosemary and The Witches of Pendle Hill, which is set in and around Liverpool and the North West of England. During writing the book, which she juggled with filming, she swears she was channelling the late Freddie Mercury as his bands songs kept popping into her head and therefore one of the character's favourite bands had to be 'Queen' of course.

Samantha has had a lifelong fascination with wicca and witchcraft and has a Facebook page called Samanthas Spells which is dedicated to her interest and like Rae, Rosemary's mother in the book, Samantha makes and sells spell kits, full details of which are on her FB page.

She also loves animals, cats in particular, and you can follow her on twitter @sammeegiles