About the Author

After a career in national newspapers, Rory Clements now lives with his family in an old farmhouse in Norfolk and writes full-time. When not immersing himself in the world of Elizabethan England, he enjoys a game of tennis with friends, a glass of red wine with his artist wife, Naomi Clements Wright, and village life generally. Martyr is his debut novel, the first of a series featuring John Shakespeare. He is at work on his second John Shakespeare novel, Revenger