Kate Allan is British

United Kingdom

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 historical romance novelist.

Allan was educated at the all-girls' Bedford High School and Repton School

Repton School

Repton School, founded in 1557, is a co-educational English independent school for both day and boarding pupils, in the British public school tradition, located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, in the Midlands area of England...

 where she was a contemporary of actors Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers

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 and Nicholas Burns. In 1997 she graduated from the University of York

University of York

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with a BA in history. She is member of the Romantic Novelists Association, the Historical Novels Society, the Society of Authors, and Verulam Writers' Circle.

She was shortlisted for the 2005 Joan Hessayon New Writers Award. She is co-author of The Lady Soldier by Jennifer Lindsay.

Novels

• Perfidy and Perfection (2006) ISBN 9780709080169
• Fateful Deception (2006) ISBN 9781846175275
• The Restless Heart (2007) ISBN 9781846178276
• The Smuggler Returns (2009) ISBN 9781444800326
• Krakow Waltz (2010) ISBN 9781601548054