Rebecca Fraser is a writer and broadcaster. The Financial Times called her most recent book, The Mayflower “addictively readable”. It was a Times History Book of the Year. Her popular history, A People’s History of Britain has been translated into Chinese and was described by the Telegraph as "an elegantly written, impressively well-informed single-volume history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years. Her biography of Charlotte Bronte is continuously in print and she reviews for the TLS and the Oldie.