Sarah Gristwood

After leaving Oxford, Sarah Gristwood worked as a journalist specializing in the arts and women's issues. She is a regular contributor to The Times, Guardian, Independent and the Evening Standard.

Arbella, her historical biography of Arbella Stuart, was widely acclaimed in hardcover, and is available as a Bantam paperback. Her forthcoming anthology of women's diaries through the ages will also be published in paperback by Bantam Books in 2006.

Books by Sarah Gristwood

Elizabeth & Leicester

Sarah Gristwood

Power, passion, politics: The real story behind the romance of two of the most powerful people in Tudor history.

Bird Of Paradise

Sarah Gristwood

The extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the first Mary Robinson, one of the 18th century's most admired, reviled and written-about women.

Arbella: England's Lost Queen

Sarah Gristwood

The acclaimed account of an extraordinary life previously lost in history yet spanning both Tudor and Stuart courts and encompassing espionage, a clandestine marriage, elopement, imprisonment and eventual death in the Tower of London.