Andrew Beattie

Andrew Beattie is the author of several cultural-historical titles, including books on Prague and Cairo in Signal Books’ Cities of the Imagination series and on the Scottish Highlands and the River Danube for their Landscapes of the Imagination series; he has also written for the travel series Rough Guides. Having written Following in the Footsteps of the Princes in the Tower, this is his second book for Pen & Sword. He is also an established children’ s playwright and his play Arthur: Boy-King of Britain has been performed by schools and youth theatre groups in the UK, the United States and Australia. He is a graduate of Oxford University and lives in London.