Celia Brayfield

Biography

Celia Brayfield is a biographer, novelist, journalist and cultural commentator. She began her writing career with Glitter: The Truth About Fame and followed with the international bestseller Pearls, both published by Chatto & Windus and continued with eight further novels and seven non-fiction titles, most recently Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists (Bloomsbury) and Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights (The History Press.) 

Her books are all about women, as disruptors, game-changers, friends, sisters, mothers, wives and artists. Her books have been translated into every European language and she has judged awards including The Betty Trask award and the Author’s Club Prize. Her first career was as a journalist with The Times and the Evening Standard. Her film rights have spent 13 years in development hell, notably with Tom Cruise and Ian McShane. 

As Dr Celia Brayfield SFHEA she teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University where she also programmes the annual Fay Weldon Lecture and is a member of the advisory board of the International Women’s Writing Association. 

She lives in Dorset where she enjoys gardening, making award-winning jam and fossil hunting on the Jurassic Coast.