Ellen Alpsten

Ellen Alpsten is an international best--selling author and script-writer. She was born and raised in the Kenyan highlands. Upon graduating from the 'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris', she worked as a News-Anchor for Bloomberg TV London and as a journalist for international publications such as the German 'FAZ', Vogue, Standpoint, and CN Traveller.

Ellen's debut novel, Tsarina, is the reimagining the journey of Catherine I of Russia from lowly birth and work in servitude to becoming the second wife of Peter the Greatr, has been translated into 10 languages. The second book in the quartet, The Tsarina's Daughter, has now been published.

Her third book,The Last Princess, is the re-telling  of 1066 and Gytha Godwinson, daughter of Harold, last Anglo-Saxon king of England.

Ellen lives in London with her husband, three sons, and a moody fox red Labrador-Lady.