Georgina Harding is the author of five novels: Land of the Living, The Gun Room, Painter of Silence (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize), The Solitude of Thomas Cave, and The Spy Game (a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for the Encore Award).

Her first book was a work of non-fiction, In Another Europe, recording a journey she made across Romania in 1988 during the worst times of the Ceausescu regime. It was followed by Tranquebar: A Season in South India, which documented the lives of the people in a small fishing village in the Coromandel coast.

She is currently writing a cycle of novels about one English family’s lives in the wake of war, which is published by Bloomsbury. It opens with The Gun Room and Land of the Living, and continues with Harvest.

Georgina Harding lives in London and on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.