Sara Sheridan

Author Sara Sheridan was born in Edinburgh and studied English at Trinity College, Dublin. She spent a short time running an art gallery in Ireland, before returning to Edinburgh in 1991. She started writing full time for her 1998 novel Truth or Dare.

Sara is now based in Glasgow and writes a range of historical novels, including The Secret Mandarin, Secret of the Sands, On Starlit Sea, The Fair Botanists and The Secrets of Blythswood Square.

She has also written for children – her picture book I’m Me has appeared on CBeebies three times. Tipped in Company and GQ magazines, she has been nominated for a Young Achiever Award. She received a Scottish Library Award for Truth or Dare, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Book Prize. She co-wrote two short films one of which was nominated for a SkyMoviesMax Award.

An occasional journalist and blogger, Sara appears on BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent and blogs for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. She has written articles for a variety of newspapers from the Scotsman to the Daily Express. She is a twitter evangelist and a self-confessed swot. Sara sits on the Committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland where she recently was responsible for negotiating a pioneering service level agreement between Scottish) writers and publishers, in tandem with Publishing Scotland.

She is a member of the Historical Writers Association and the Crime Writers Association. Sara mentors fledgling writers for the Scottish Book Trust and appears regularly as an after-dinner speaker at a variety of corporate events.