Gillian Tindall is an accomplished novelist and biographer as well as an acclaimed historian of place. "The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village" was commended as "an effortless blend of scholarship, sleuthing and imagination" by the "Financial Times", while the "London Sunday Times" called "City of Gold: The Biography of Bombay" "a glowing evocation of a great exotic subject." Ms. Tindall makes her home in London and in Chassignolles, in the Berry region of France.