Award-winning non-fiction writer, novelist and broadcaster.
Her latest novel Dark Earth (UK: Fourth Estate and US: Penguin Random House) is in bookshops now.
About Rebecca
Rebecca is a novelist, non-fiction writer, historian and broadcaster. As well as writing books, she has taught literature and creative writing courses in British universities for thirty-two years, including, most recently, fourteen years as a professor teaching on the internationally-esteemed creative writing course at the University of East Anglia (UEA). In 2021 she left teaching to work full-time as a writer. She has three grown-up children, Hannah, Kezia and Jacob. She lives in Sussex.
‘It is only when you’ve pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still want to ask.’
Ghostwalk
Rebecca’s books
Rebecca’s fourteen books reflect her curiosity for history, archaeology, feminism, history of science, marine creatures, literature and, sometimes… ghosts. They include two novels: Ghostwalk (2007) and The Coral Thief (2009). Her most recent book, the novel Dark Earth - in which two sixth-century sisters go on the run in the ruins of Roman Londinium - was published in Britain and America in 2022. Her creative non-fiction titles include Darwin and the Barnacle (2003), Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (2012) and Oyster (2003).
In The Days of Rain (2017), her memoir about growing up inside the closed, secretive cult called the Exclusive Brethren, won the Costa Biography Award in 2017.
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