Janet Gleeson

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Janet Gleeson is the author of works of fiction and nonfiction which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her books include The Arcanum, which was Radio Four Book of the Week and a Sunday Times bestseller; The Money Maker; which was serialized Radio Scotland and included in Radio Four Book of the Week’s compilation on the financial crisis; An Aristocratic Affair; The Lifeboat Baronet; as well as three historical crime novels. Gleeson has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in English and art history from Nottingham University and a Masters from Birkbeck College, University of London. Before starting her writing career, she worked at Sotheby’s and Bonhams as a cataloguer and valuer of old master paintings, and at Reed Books as an editor responsible for many of the Miller’s Antique Collecting Guides. Gleeson has served as an antiques correspondent for House & Garden and written for numerous magazines and newspapers including the Times, Daily Mail, the Literary Review, New Statesman, Apollo, the Antique Collector, and Portcullis, the magazine of the House of Commons. She lives in a medieval barn in Dorset.