David Crane

David Crane's first book, `Lord Byron’s Jackal’ was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, `The Kindness of Sisters’ published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed 'Scott of the Antarctc' was published, followed by `Men of War’, a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. His `Empires of the Dead’ was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in north-west Scotland.