Julia Boyd is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich, and the critically acclaimed A Village in the Third Reich and There is Sweet Music Here: The World of Wigmore Hall. Her previous books include A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony, The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician and Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan. Currently a trustee of Wigmore Hall, she is a former governor of the English-Speaking Union and a former trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. She lives in London.