Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. His non-fiction books, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Plantagenets, The Templars, Powers and Thrones and Henry V. His fiction includes the acclaimed Essex Dogs trilogy, set during the Hundred Years War, which concludes with the 'salty, action-packed saga' Lion Hearts.

Dan has written and presented numerous TV series including Secrets of Great British Castles, Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets and London: 2000 Years of History. He has also appeared in programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky Atlantic and History, and hosts the podcast This is History. For a decade Dan was a weekly columnist for the Evening Standard; he has also contributed to The Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, GQ, The Spectator, New Statesman, BBC History Magazine, History Today, Tatler and Literary Review. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.