Atlantic Furies

Midge Gillies specialises in writing books about history’s forgotten stories. Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian described her book about Prisoners of War, The Barbed-Wire University, as ‘one of the best war books I have ever read’ and The Mail on Sunday called her biography of pioneering pilot Amy Johnson ‘a riveting slice of social history’. Her most recent book Piccadilly was praised by the TLS as ‘painstakingly researched and as busy as the Circus itself’. She has written or co-authored ten books and teaches creative writing at Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for three years. She has a PhD from the University of East Anglia and is married to award-winning crime writer, Jim Kelly.