Rosalind Miles

Rosalind Miles is the award-winning author of 23 books of fiction and non-fiction, including history, criticism and social commentary. Her historical novels featuring celebrated queens of the British Isles have been internationally acclaimed, most notably I, Elizabeth, the story of Queen Elizabeth I, recreating the life and times of the Tudor Queen.

Her later works, the Camelot novels based on the Celtic queens of the Arthurian saga, Guenevere and Isolde, have also appeared on best-seller lists in Britain, the US and elsewhere. Rosalind’s non-fiction publications include literary criticism and social commentary on leadership and power, women and work, and masculinity and sex. Among them The Women’s History of the World, now published in America as Who Cooked The Last Supper? received outstanding reviews and has become a classic text which has been translated into over 30 different languages, most recently Romanian, Chinese and Korean.

This and other non-fiction titles have been shortlisted for the Philippa Fawcett Award, and nominated for the James Tait Black and Whitbread literary awards. Her most recent book, co-written with the No 1# best-selling military historian Robin Cross, is Warrior Women: Three Thousand Years of Courage and Heroism. As both novelist and critic, Rosalind regularly appears at the Los Angeles International Book Fair, the Gothenburg Book Festival, the London Daily Telegraph Book Festival, the Cheltenham Festival, the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Dartington Hall Festival, and many more. She led a literary festival in Banff, Canada, with the South American Whitbread-Award-winning novelist, Alberto Manguel.