Biographical Info Gill Paul is the bestselling author of thirteen historical novels, many of them describing real women she thinks have been marginalized or misjudged by historians. The Collector’s Daughter was longlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown in 2021; Women and Children First was shortlisted for the 2013 RNA Epic Novel of the Year award, and No Place for a Lady was shortlisted for a Love Stories award in 2015. Her novels have reached the top of the USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail and kindle charts, and been translated into twenty-three languages. Gill also writes historical non-fiction, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects, and she speaks at libraries and literary festivals on subjects ranging from Tutankhamun to the Romanovs. Gill lives in London, where she swims daily in a wild pond with its own heron and kingfishers.