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Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan (born 7 June 1968) is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominantly in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
Born Sara Louise Goodwin, Sheridan comes from Edinburgh and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2014 she actively campaigned in favour of Scottish independence and in 2016 supported the Remain campaign in the UK's EU Referendum. Sheridan has one daughter, Molly by her first marriage to Irish businessman, Seamus Sheridan. She married her second husband, Alan Ferrier in 2011 and the couple live in Scotland.
Sheridan's first book, contemporary commercial fiction, Truth or Dare entered the Sunday Times top 50 when it was published in 1998. It was nominated for the Saltire Prize and was also listed in the Scottish Libraries Top 100 Books. In the successive two years Sheridan wrote two more novels in the same genre, Ma Polinski's Pockets and The Pleasure Express. During this period, she also co-wrote two short films, Fish Supper starring Lynda Bellingham and The Window Bed, which was nominated for a Sky Movies Max Award in 2001. She was then commissioned by specialist publisher Barrington Stoke to write a novella for reluctant readers, called The Blessed and The Damned.
She now writes historical novels set in two distinct eras: one based around the real lives of notable figures in the late Georgian/early Victorian eras (The Secret Mandarin (2009), Secret of the Sands (2011), On Starlit Seas (2016), The Ice Maiden (2018), The Fair Botanists (2022), The Secrets of Blythswood Square (2024) and a 9-part series of 1950s crime noir mysteries featuring her fictional ex-secret service heroine, Mirabelle Bevan (Brighton Belle (2012), London Calling (2014), British Bulldog (2015), Operation Goodwood (2016), Russian Roulette (2017), England Expects (2018), Indian Summer (2019), Highland Fling (2020) and Celtic Cross (2021)). The Mirabelle Bevan Mysteries were optioned by STV in 2015 but were not developed for television. In 2022 the series was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library Award. In 2017 On Starlit Seas was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. In 2022 her novel The Fair Botanists won Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. In 2024 her novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square was longlisted for the Saltire Society's Prize for Fiction Book of the Year. Sheridan has also written two children's picture books, (I'm Me (2010) which was inspired by her relationship with her niece and a pan-European picture book written with her daughter, Molly, Monsters Unite (2019).
Sheridan occasionally appears as a commenter on TV and radio in the UK. She has reported from both Tallinn, Estonia and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates for BBC Radio 4. She has contributed to several British newspapers, including writing blog articles for The Guardian in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. She also appeared, talking about history and feminism on RTE radio in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 she wrote a Love Letter to Europe which was published on the cover of The National newspaper. In 2013 she spoke about The History of the Lady on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Sheridan also writes blog articles for the Huffington Post and occasionally writes for the BBC online and as a cultural commentator on BBC Radio Scotland. Two of her five-part radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four.
Sheridan also writes TV tie-in books. Her first, for the second series of ITV's hit drama series, Victoria was based on the early married life of Queen Victoria (2017) and the second for ITV's adaptation of Jane Austen's last, unfinished novel, Sanditon (2019).
She remapped Scotland for Historic Environment Scotland (Where are the Women? An imagined female atlas of Scotland - 2019).
In collaboration with Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Sheridan added many women from her book to artist Will Knight's Map of Glasgow. The background information can be seen here https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/recording-mapping-where-are-the-women/ and the resultant video seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvFVn65-CA
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Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan (born 7 June 1968) is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominantly in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
Born Sara Louise Goodwin, Sheridan comes from Edinburgh and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2014 she actively campaigned in favour of Scottish independence and in 2016 supported the Remain campaign in the UK's EU Referendum. Sheridan has one daughter, Molly by her first marriage to Irish businessman, Seamus Sheridan. She married her second husband, Alan Ferrier in 2011 and the couple live in Scotland.
Sheridan's first book, contemporary commercial fiction, Truth or Dare entered the Sunday Times top 50 when it was published in 1998. It was nominated for the Saltire Prize and was also listed in the Scottish Libraries Top 100 Books. In the successive two years Sheridan wrote two more novels in the same genre, Ma Polinski's Pockets and The Pleasure Express. During this period, she also co-wrote two short films, Fish Supper starring Lynda Bellingham and The Window Bed, which was nominated for a Sky Movies Max Award in 2001. She was then commissioned by specialist publisher Barrington Stoke to write a novella for reluctant readers, called The Blessed and The Damned.
She now writes historical novels set in two distinct eras: one based around the real lives of notable figures in the late Georgian/early Victorian eras (The Secret Mandarin (2009), Secret of the Sands (2011), On Starlit Seas (2016), The Ice Maiden (2018), The Fair Botanists (2022), The Secrets of Blythswood Square (2024) and a 9-part series of 1950s crime noir mysteries featuring her fictional ex-secret service heroine, Mirabelle Bevan (Brighton Belle (2012), London Calling (2014), British Bulldog (2015), Operation Goodwood (2016), Russian Roulette (2017), England Expects (2018), Indian Summer (2019), Highland Fling (2020) and Celtic Cross (2021)). The Mirabelle Bevan Mysteries were optioned by STV in 2015 but were not developed for television. In 2022 the series was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library Award. In 2017 On Starlit Seas was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. In 2022 her novel The Fair Botanists won Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. In 2024 her novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square was longlisted for the Saltire Society's Prize for Fiction Book of the Year. Sheridan has also written two children's picture books, (I'm Me (2010) which was inspired by her relationship with her niece and a pan-European picture book written with her daughter, Molly, Monsters Unite (2019).
Sheridan occasionally appears as a commenter on TV and radio in the UK. She has reported from both Tallinn, Estonia and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates for BBC Radio 4. She has contributed to several British newspapers, including writing blog articles for The Guardian in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. She also appeared, talking about history and feminism on RTE radio in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 she wrote a Love Letter to Europe which was published on the cover of The National newspaper. In 2013 she spoke about The History of the Lady on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Sheridan also writes blog articles for the Huffington Post and occasionally writes for the BBC online and as a cultural commentator on BBC Radio Scotland. Two of her five-part radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four.
Sheridan also writes TV tie-in books. Her first, for the second series of ITV's hit drama series, Victoria was based on the early married life of Queen Victoria (2017) and the second for ITV's adaptation of Jane Austen's last, unfinished novel, Sanditon (2019).
She remapped Scotland for Historic Environment Scotland (Where are the Women? An imagined female atlas of Scotland - 2019).
In collaboration with Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Sheridan added many women from her book to artist Will Knight's Map of Glasgow. The background information can be seen here https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/recording-mapping-where-are-the-women/ and the resultant video seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvFVn65-CA