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, The Telegraph, the Radio Times and the Washington Post, and previously worked as an editor of history and classic literature for Oxford University. 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 shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize.