Emily Brand is an author, historian and genealogist specialising in social history and romantic relationships during the long eighteenth century. She has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times and Washington Post, and previously worked as an editor of history and classic literature for the University of Oxford. The Fall of the House of Byron was selected for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times 'Best Summer Reads' 2020, and was shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize.

Brand has written a delectable biography and, while she never exalts the family, she can't help but be moved by that Byronic lust for life - even when it is thwarted

Emily Brand is an author, historian and genealogist specialising in social history and romantic relationships during the long eighteenth century. She has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times and Washington Post, and previously worked as an editor of history and classic literature for the University of Oxford. The Fall of the House of Byron was selected for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times 'Best Summer Reads' 2020, and was shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize.

Brand has written a delectable biography and, while she never exalts the family, she can't help but be moved by that Byronic lust for life - even when it is thwarted