Gillian Tindall

Gillian Elizabeth Tindall was a British writer and historian. Among her books are City of Gold: The Biography of Bombay (1992) and Celestine: Voices from a French Village (1997). Her novel Fly Away Home won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1972. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, Tindall worked as a journalist, writing stories for The Guardian, the Evening Standard, The Times, and The Independent, and for many years was a regular guest on the BBC Radio 3 arts discussion programme, Critics' Forum.