Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard is a historian and novelist known for her acclaimed biographies of 18th-century British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats, particularly her bestselling book *Aristocrats*. After over twenty years of non-fiction, she published her first novel, *Tides of War*, in 2011, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London.