Phyllida Barstow

Phyllida is the author of My Animals (and Other Family), a Job for All Seasons and It Happened in Gloucestershire. As D.P. Hart-Davis, she has also written a series of highly-acclaimed sporting thrillers: Death of a ealer, Death of a Selkie, The Stalking Party and Death of a High Flyer all of which are published by Merlin Unwin Books.

After a career in magazines and journalism, Phyllida was the fiction-buyer for the Mirror Group. She's also had 16 novels published and was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, as well as for several country magazines.

Married to author and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, she lives on a small farm in Gloucestershire.