Rebecca Stott
““Stott is masterly as both a storyteller and a historian.””
© Nicholas BradleyRebecca Stott is an award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster. Her novels include Ghostwalk (a New York Times bestseller), The Coral Thief (BBC Book at Bedtime) and most recently Dark Earth, a historical thriller set in the sixth century in the ruined city of Londinium. Her memoir In the Days of Rain, an account of growing up in - and escaping - a fundamentalist Christian cult, was awarded the Costa Biography Prize in 2017. Her other non-fiction books include two books on Darwin: Darwin and the Barnacle and Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists as well as a cultural history of the oyster, called Oyster.
She taught on the acclaimed creative writing course at UEA for fourteen years - until 2021 - and although she has now given up teaching to spend more time writing, she still does a little mentoring. She has just finished co-writing the screenplay of In the Days of Rain and co-creatiing a new television series on Boudicca and has begun a new novel. She lives in Lewes, Sussex.
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