Linden Peach is Professor and Head of the Department of English and History at Edge Hill University, Liverpool. He has been published extensively in the field of contemporary literature and has been honoured twice by the University of Georgia for works on the American author Toni Morrison.

Peach provides an insightful introduction to a dynamic area of study that will no doubt prove an important step in its field.'Lucy Thomas, Planet 190 'Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction is a wide-ranging study that certainly fulfils its aim to provide the young scholar or general reader new to this fiction with an introduction that will inspire further reading this book [is] a compelling and thought-provoking introduction, and a valuable contribution to Welsh - Irish and gender studies.'