Historical novelist Isolde Martyn enjoys setting her novels in turbulent times such as the Wars of the Roses or the French Revolution. Her first novel won top awards in the USA and Australia. Her earlier career was in academia and she was a senior book editor with Reader's Digest General Books before taking up writing full time. She is also chair of the Plantagenet Society of Australia and a former of the NSW Richard III Society. She has just finished a novel set in the late Elizabethan era and has a history picture book in press.