About the Author

James Forrester is the pen name (the middle names) of the historian Dr. Ian Mortimer. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and winner of its Alexander Prize for his work on social history, he is the author of four highly acclaimed medieval biographies and the Sunday Times bestseller The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England. He lives with his wife and three children on the edge of Dartmoor.