Fiona Mountain
Fiona Mountain is an award-winning historical novelist who was for ten years a press officer at BBC Radio 1. Her debut novel, Isabella, tells the haunting love story of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and his cousin, Isabella Curwen and was short-listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. It was followed by Pale as the Dead and Bloodline, which is the winner of a prestigious Mystery Writers of America, Mary Higgins Clark Award and has been optioned by Hollywood producer Leonard Goldberg (Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels). Fiona's novels have been published in America, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Italy, Germany, Holland and Australia. Her latest novel, Lady of the Butterflies, to be republished as Rebel Heiress in the Autumn, is based on the life of seventeenth century lepidopterist Eleanor Glanville. Fiona is currently working on a new novel, Cavalier Queen about King Charles I's queen Henrietta Maria.