Pauline Gedge

Since the publication of her prizewinning first novel, Child of the Morning, Pauline Gedge's historical novels have found more than six million readers in eighteen languages. Eleven of the novels are set in ancient Egypt, including two glorious trilogies, Lords of the Two Lands and The King's Man, while The Eagle and the Raven, which won a historical fiction award in France, is set in Roman Britain. She has also written Stargate, a fantasy set in an alien universe. Born in New Zealand, she spent some of her childhood years in England before the family made its home in Canada.