![]() ![]() Initially fascinated by the medieval period, she began her crime and mystery career at Pan Macmillan with a historical novel set during the fourteenth century then fast-forwarded to West Wales in the nineteenth century to fulfill a long-held desire to write a book based on Wales’s best kept historical secret: the Rebecca Riots. Nonfiction (autism related), plays (commissioned for production in heritage locations) and, of course, novels. She has spent the subsequent three decades variously working in a burger restaurant, bringing up two sons, working with homeless people and helping families to understand their autistic children. ![]() Her inner introvert thought it would be a good idea to become a shepherd and, frankly, if she had she might have been published sooner.Īs it was, three years reading English at Oxford revealed an extrovert streak and a social conscience which sent her off to train as a Speech and Language Therapist. Longlist and shortlist / Y Rhestrau Hir a ByrĪ CWA Historical Dagger shortlisted author, Alis Hawkins grew up on a dairy farm in Cardiganshire. ![]()
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