Antoinette George

I've always been a student of history but I also love fluffy cats, dancing the Argentine tango, and escapist and exciting romantic literature, but not necessarily in that order! I've been busy trying to reinvigorate the sweeping, romantic saga in the twenty twenties: The Granville Legacy Series, because there are still lots of avid readers around who enjoy long and involved stories. Events, locations and characters in my tales reflect many of my diverse interests, especially my travels.

History has always fascinated me and I love visiting old and interesting places, especially those with lots of narrow, cobbled streets, or ancient buildings to wander around, and I imagine the events that took place there centuries before. A lot of the locations of the stories or events in my books are as a result of places I've been to and experienced for myself… but nothing remotely exciting ever happened to me when I was there!

I write the type of novels I've always loved to read: romance, both historical and contemporary - full of drama, adventure, suspense, excitement, passion and humour, with a touch of pathos here and there, and flawed heroes and heroines because perfect people don't exist in real life, and in books perfect heroes are boring! My tales are compelling, long and involved stories to get absorbed and lost in, something to make you want to read on and on and not put down until you’ve found out what happens to all the disparate and fascinating characters that thread through them. And, of course, good always wins over evil, even if the circumstances are slightly unconventional. And when you've finished one, you have to read the next set in the series to find out about that character's story. The Granville Legacy is a whole series - some historical (Regency period) and some contemporary - but all the books are connected through the characters in them.

I used to work in the world of media and marketing, but instead of reading to pass the time, I started writing my stories on the train as I commuted from home to my office in central London and I got hooked on my new hobby which now takes up more and more of my time than my professional work, which I only now do occasionally, mainly to keep me in touch with the real world instead of the crazy one inhabited by my characters!

I lives by the seaside in Sussex, in the south of England and my family think I'm completely mad and obsessed with my novel writing, but I have more and more fans who love nothing more than getting engrossed in my stories for weeks and weeks and weeks... so I'll keep on tapping away at my laptop!