Nicola Cornick


Nicola Cornick is a British writer of historical romance novels and more recently, timeslip mysteries that merge multiple genres, including historical fiction, romance, suspense, adventure, crime, science fiction/fantasy and the supernatural. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and she has won a number of awards.She is also a historian specialising in public history. She acts as a volunteer guide and historian at Ashdown House, a 17th-century National Trust hunting lodge in Oxfordshire.
Nicola Cornick was elected the twenty-eight chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Historical Writers' Association. She is a speaker on various writing and history-related topics.

Biography

Nicola Cornick was born on 15 August 1964 in Yorkshire, England. She obtained an honours degree in Medieval History from London University. She worked for many years in university administration, becoming Assistant Academic Registrar and Operations Manager at Cranfield University. She returned to college in Oxford, to study at Ruskin College. gaining a master's degree with distinction in Public History.
She published her first novel in 1998 for Mills & Boon, specializing in romances set in the British Regency. In 2006 she moved to HQN Books in the United States and published longer historical romances with settings ranging from 19th century Scotland to the Arctic. In 2014 she signed with Harper Collins HQ to write multiple time period historical mysteries, the first of which, House of Shadows, was published in 2015 and the second, The Phantom Tree, in 2016.
Nicola Cornick's books have been shortlisted for a number of awards including the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards and have won the Reader's Choice Award, the Laurel Wreath and the LORIES. She has been Wiltshire Libraries Writer in Residence and has spoken at the Oxford Literary Festival on the history and development of the romance novel and at Sharjah International Book Fair on the appeal of the historical novel. Her works are recognised for their historical research and well-observed characterisation.
She lives in Oxfordshire, England.

Traditional Regencies

  1. True Colours
  2. The Virtuous Cyprian
  3. The Larkswood Legacy
  4. Lady Polly
  5. Miss Verey's Proposal
  6. Lady Allerton's Wager
  7. The Notorious Marriage
  8. The Earl's Prize
  9. The Chaperon Bride
  10. Wayward Widow
  1. The Notorious Lord
  2. One Night of Scandal
  3. The Rake's Mistress

    Regency Historicals

  1. The Secrets of a Courtesan
  2. The Confessions of a Duchess
  3. The Scandals of An Innocent
  4. The Undoing of a Lady

    Scandalous Women of the Ton Series

  5. Whisper of Scandal
  6. One Wicked Sin
  7. Mistress by Midnight
  8. Notorious
  9. Desired
  10. Forbidden

    The Scottish Brides

  11. The Lady and the Laird
  12. One night with the Laird
  13. Claimed by the Laird

    Multi Period Historical

  14. House of Shadows
  15. The Phantom Tree
  16. The Woman in the Lake

    Collaborations

Steepwood Scandal Series Multi-Author

Anthologies in collaboration