Juliet Gardiner
has been a publisher and academic, and, since
2001, a full time author. She was a Research Fellow
at the Institute of Historical Research, editor of History
Today for five years, academic and then
general publisher at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and
taught for eight years at Middlesex University until
appointed head of Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes
University.
She has written
14 books, the most recent of which include Penguin
Dictionary of British History and Wartime:
Britain 1939-45 (2004) which was short listed for
the Orwell Prize and, read by Fiona Shaw, won the Audio
Book of the Year award.
She has also
contributed articles on publishing and book history,
practice and theory to scholarly journals, is a frequent
reviewer and broadcaster on radio and television, and
was the historical consultant to The 1940s House
and The Edwardian Country House (both
Channel Four) and wrote the accompanying books, and
on the film of Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement (Working
Title, script by Christopher Hampton).
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