Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott is a novelist, historian and broadcaster and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of fifteen books including the novels Dark Earth, The Coral Thief and Ghostwalk, the creative non-fiction books, Darwin and the Barnacle and Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio. Her memoir, In the Days of Rain, won the Costa Biography Prize in 2017. Her most recent work Dark Earth is a novel set in the ruins of the Roman city of Londinium in the sixth century. It came out in spring of 2022 in the US and the UK. She lives in Lewes, England.