Mark Bostridge's books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation, Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and The Fateful Year, England 1914, shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His biography of Adèle Hugo In Pursuit of Love, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2024. He has written widely for national newspapers and journals, and appeared on television and radio.