About Stella Riley
Stella Riley is a British author of historical novels. Having trained as a teacher and worked as a primary-school music and drama specialist in London, she has lived in various UK locations but has now settled in Sandwich, Kent. She enjoys reading, theatre, playing the harpsichord and travel.
Her preferred period is mid-seventeenth century England and her Civil War novels reflect this in their vast historical detail. She is also the author of the seven book Rockliffe series of Georgian romances which she claims to write ‘for fun’ and which she is currently having transformed into audiobooks, narrated by Alex Wyndham.
Her writing has been described as “exciting, often funny, romantic, poignant and intelligent” and her books have received numerous five-star reviews.