Natalie Haynes is a best selling author, an award-winning comedian, a journalist, and a broadcaster. She has been a judge for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Natalie is a regular panelist on Radio 4's Saturday Review and the long-running arts show, Front Row. She is a guest columnist for The Independent and The Guardian.

Her debut novel, The Furies was called "a gripping, can't-stop-turning-pages thriller" by Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe. Her other books include A Thousand Ships and The Children of Jocasta.