Alison spoke to us in 2019 about how she’d created her fictional Roma Novan world in her six-book series. Since then, our world has experienced various crises including Covid, political upheaval and pressing climate change. The book world has been through its own turbulence culminating in the current challenge of AI. 

During these years, Alison’s own work has expanded from six to fifteen books, not only historical fiction, but three contemporary crime thrillers featuring a heroine with a French father and English mother. Quite how that happened, Alison will explain.

Alison writes award-winning thrillers featuring tough but compassionate heroines. Her twelve-book Roma Nova series is set in an imaginary European country where a remnant of the Roman Empire has survived into the 21^st century and is ruled by women who face conspiracy, revolution and heartache but use a sharp line in dialogue.

 She blends her fascination for Ancient Rome with six years’ military service and a life of reading crime, historical and thriller fiction. On the way, she collected a BA in modern languages and an MA in history. 

Alison lives in Poitou in France, the home of Mélisende, the heroine of her three contemporary thrillers, Double Identity, Double Pursuit and Double Stakes.