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Honor Cargill-Martin Author

Honor Cargill-Martin is a twenty-three-year-old novelist and historian from London. She won an undergraduate scholarship at Oxford and graduated with a first class degree in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in 2019. Remaining at Oxford as a postgrad, she was awarded a distinction in her masters in Greek and Roman history in 2020. It was here that she met Messalina, who became the subject of her final thesis. Honor is the co-author of a trilogy of YA novels and is currently working on a number of fiction projects for younger readers, while also studying for a second masters in Italian Renaissance Art History at the Courtauld Institute. Messalina is her first foray into non-fiction. Honor can be found on Twitter @HonorCargillM.