Christina Courtenay

CHRISTINA COURTENAY writes historical romance, time slip and YA contemporary romance, all published by independent publisher Choc Lit. She lives in Herefordshire (in the UK) and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. In her teens, the family moved to Japan where she had the opportunity to travel extensively in the Far East. Christina is chairman of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) until May 2015. She won their Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for a historical short story in 2001 and Katie Fforde Bursary for a promising new writer in 2006. Christina’s novels have been shortlisted for and won several awards - Trade Winds (Sept 2010) was short listed in 2011 for the RNA’s Award for Best Historical Fiction, The Scarlet Kimono won the Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award the same year, Highland Storms won the Best Historical Romantic Novel of the year award (RoNA) in 2012, The Silent Touch of Shadows was shortlisted for the 2013 RoNAs (Historical) and won the Festival of Romance Award for Best Historical. The Gilded Fan won the RoNA for Best Historical this year (2014). The Secret Kiss of Darkness (time slip) and Monsoon Mists (historical) are her latest novels. She has published two YA novels, contemporary romance – New England Rocks and New England Crush. Christina is a keen amateur genealogist and loves history and archaeology (the armchair variety).