Emma Darwin’s new memoir, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, was published in February 2019 and the Daily Mail described it as “a fascinating journey…a masterclass”. Her debut novel, The Mathematics of Love, is possibly the only novel ever nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book, and Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year; her second novel. A Secret Alchemy, was a Sunday Times bestseller as well as forming the major part of her PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths. Emma’s blog This Itch of Writing gave rise to Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction which publisher Scott Pack describes as “essential reading”. She has taught for the Open University, now chiefly mentors and tutors individual writers, and is a regular guest lecturer and speaker at university creative writing departments and writers’ conferences.

Website: emmadarwin.com

Blog: This Itch of Writing

Twitter: @emma_darwin

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