Jacky Hyams is a journalist and bestselling author based in Brighton who says she fell into non-fiction book writing and often works to commission.
‘Journalism doesn’t take up much of my time nowadays. It might creep into the working day on a rare occasion,’ she says. ‘Writing historical non-fiction, of course, requires a great deal of research – reading online, naturally, but I’ll often have a printed book to read by my bedside, so in that respect, my research doesn’t quite end when
