Gareth Russell (author)

Gareth Russell
Born Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupation Author
Language English
Nationality British
Education Down High Grammar School
Alma mater Saint Peter's College, Oxford
Genre History, historical fiction, young adult fiction
Notable works Popular
Young and Damned and Fair
Website
www.thepopularseries.com/about/

Gareth Russell is a British author and historian.

Early life and education

Gareth Russell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Down High Grammar School, and later graduated from Saint Peter's College, Oxford, where he read modern history.[1] Russell completed a Master's degree in medieval history at Queen's University, Belfast. He currently divides his time between Belfast and New York.[2]

Career

Russell is the author of a series of plays, including The Gate of the Year.[3] In July 2011, his first novel Popular was published in the UK and Ireland by Penguin, as the first in a new series of novels following the lives of a group of privileged Belfast teenagers. It was published in German as It-Girls by S. Fischer Verlag in 2014. A sequel to Popular, The Immaculate Deception, was published in November 2012. Both novels were subsequently adapted for the stage in Northern Ireland, followed by a final theatrical sequel, Say You'll Remember Me, which received its first performance in 2016.[4]

In August 2014, his first non-fiction book The Emperors: How Europe's Rulers were Destroyed by World War One was published by Amberley Publishing. In 2017, his biography of English queen consort Catherine Howard was published, based on research undertaken between 2011 and 2016.[5] It was published by Simon & Schuster in the US and Canada, and HarperCollins in the UK, Ireland, and most of the Commonwealth.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Popular (2011)
  • The Immaculate Deception (2012)

Non-Fiction

  • The Emperors: How Europe's Rulers were destroyed by World War I (2014)
  • An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors (2014)
  • A History of the English Monarchy from Boadicea to Elizabeth I (2015)
  • Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII (US title) (2017)

Notes

  1. ↑ "About". The Popular Series. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Author biography, Young and Damned and Fair (UK edition, 2017)
  3. ↑ De Buitléir & 7 March2014.
  4. ↑ Russell & 1 October 2011.
  5. ↑ http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Young-and-Damned-and-Fair/Gareth-Russell/9781501108631

References

  • De Buitléir, Scott (7 March 2014). "Preview & Competition: The Gate of The Year @ Belvoir Players' Theatre, Belfast". Eile Magazine. Eile.ie. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  • Russell, Gareth (1 October 2011). "My interview in The Irish Times". Confessions of a Ci-devant. Garethrussellcidevant.blogspot.com.au. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  • Vidal, Elena Maria (17 October 2009). "The Audacity of Ideas". Tea at Trianon. Teaattrianon.blogspot.com.au. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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