Epic and intimate historical fiction that sweeps you away. It will take you to....

I write epic and intimate historical fiction which sweeps you away to beautiful locations, moments of forgotten history and unforgettable relationships. My new novel The Silver Thread, is a story of three cities — London, Paris, Tokyo — two women, and one hundred years. I loved the research for this novel, which is filled with art, fashion and an east/west love story.

"It will take you to nineteenth century London and the birth of the Liberty store, to Belle Epoque Paris and onto Japan with cameos of real life artists and writers like Oscar Wilde and the Impressionists."

All my books have elements I most enjoy reading about myself — family secrets, real historical figures, beautiful houses and locations.

Each story also has at its heart something I love, whether that's travel, art, photography or perfume. I've written about the girls who flew Spitfires, in The Beauty Chorus, the little known 'artist's Schindler' in the south of France in The House of Dreams and the women who fought and reported on the Spanish Civil War in The Perfume Garden. Historical fiction is like time travel and I love how it lets you see how people made sense of their lives in difficult times.

When you finish writing a story it belongs to the reader. What I hope is that when you reach the last page you feel this is a beginning, not an end, that these characters will live on in your imagination and you might find yourself wondering what they are going to do next. Happy Reading!

Kate Lord Brown's engrossing novels immerse readers into the cultural, historical and, of course, romantic lives of her characters.

Famous for her dual timeline novels, Kate slowly reveals how the events, secrets and protagonists of the past resonate across time.

Kate's ability to evoke the visually rich worlds of whichever time period she is writing about, with finely drawn details of art, culture and fashion, is no doubt due to her graduate studies at the prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and her experience in curating art collections for palaces and embassies across Europe and the Middle East.

Kate also holds a Master's with Distinction in Creative Writing from the Manchester Writing School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Her novels — epic, emotionally intelligent stories rooted in twentieth-century history, have earned her a devoted international readership, with top ten bestsellers in the UK, US, Germany, Norway and Canada.

The Perfume Garden was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year and Kate has been a regional winner in the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition and a finalist in ITV's The People's Author contest.

Kate is also a talented journalist and has written for many publications including The Daily Telegraph, Good Housekeeping and Condé Nast Traveller.

After many years travelling and living abroad in Europe, the Middle East and Japan, Kate recently returned to the wild southwest of England where she grew up.