Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London

Midge Gillies is the author of seven non fiction books, including biographies of the pioneering pilot Amy Johnson and the Edwardian music hall star, Marie Lloyd. Midge studied History at Girton College and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge for three years. She is Academic Director of Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and has a PhD from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Cambridgeshire with her husband, award-winning crime novelist Jim Kelly.