Rory Clements is a British author of historical fiction. He is best known for his John Shakespeare books, set in the Elizabethan era, and the Tom Wilde second world war spy thriller series. Clements has twice won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.

Biography

Following a career in print media working for titles such as the

Daily Mail The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, h ...

and the

Evening Standard The ''London Standard'', formerly the ''Evening Standard'' (1904–2024) and originally ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly and distributed free newspaper, free of charge in London, Engl ...

, since 2007 Clements has been working as a full-time author. He has found success with his series of

Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...

historical thriller novels about the character of John Shakespeare, and also the Tom Wilde series of spy novels focused on the second world war era. In 2010 Clements' historical mystery novel ''Revenger'' won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award. A further three of the John Shakespeare novels, ''Martyr'', ''Prince'', and ''The Heretics'', were nominated for the same award. In 2018 Clements won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award again, this time with the

second world war World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Tom Wilde thriller novel ''Nucleus''. A TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is under development. Clements lives in

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

, England, and is married to artist Naomi Clements-Wright.

Works

John Shakespeare series

* ''Martyr'' (2009; ) * ''Revenger'' (2010; ) * ''Prince'' (2011; ) * ''Traitor'' (2012; ) * ''The Man in the Snow'' (2012; ) * ''The Heretics'' (2013; ) * ''The Queen's Man'' (2014; ) * ''Holy Spy'' (2015; )

Tom Wilde series

* ''Corpus'' (2017; ) * ''Nucleus'' (2018; ) * ''Nemesis'' (2019; ) * ''Hitler's Secret'' (2020; ) * ''A Prince and a Spy'' (2021; ) * ''The Man in the Bunker'' (2022; ) * ''The English Führer'' (2023; ) * ''A Cold Wind from Moscow'' (2025; )

Other works

* ''Munich Wolf'' (2024; )

References

External links

Official site
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