Michael Arnold lives in Hampshire with his wife and four children. His interest in British history is lifelong, and childhood holidays were spent visiting castles and battlefields – a passion he now inflicts on his own kids. He is the author of the acclaimed Civil War Chronicles, the Highwayman sequence and the Savage Isle series. Two of his books - Devil’s Charge and The Savage Isle - have been chosen as historical novels of the year by The Times/Sunday Times.