Gillian Tindall is an accomplished novelist and biographer as well as an acclaimed historian of place. The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village was commended as "an effortless blend of scholarship, sleuthing and imagination" by the Financial Times, while the London Sunday Times called City of Gold: The Biography of Bombay "a glowing evocation of a great exotic subject." Ms. Tindall makes her home in London and in Chassignolles, in the Berry region of France.