Richard Hopton is an author, historian and journalist. He has published three works of non-fiction, and The Straits of Treachery is his first historical novel, which won The SAHR Prize for Military Fiction. Richard graduated from the University of Oxford with an M.A. in Modern History. His interests include architecture, the British countryside, art, politics, cricket, racing and springer spaniels. He lives in Dorset with his wife and two children. 

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