Christopher Hart (novelist)

Christopher Hart
Born	1965
Pen name	William Napier
Nationality	English
Period	1999–present
Genre	Contemporary, Historical fiction

Christopher William Napier Hart (born 1965) is an English novelist and journalist. He writes for the Sunday Times the Daily Mail and the The Literary Review He is the author of The Harvest (1999) and Rescue Me (2001), and has written six historical novels under his two middle names, William Napier.

Background

Born in Gloucestershire, Hart was educated at Cheltenham College and Leicester University, then went to Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) where he studied English and Art History, and Birkbeck College, London, where he obtained a PhD on W.B.Yeats.

Under his original name he has written two contemporary novels, The Harvest and Rescue Me. Since 2001, he has written six historical novels under the pseudonym of William Napier, three of them a best-selling trilogy about Attila the Hun and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, including Korean and Azerbaijani, and well-reviewed in both Sunday Sport and the Times Literary Supplement.

As a journalist he has also worked as literary editor of the Erotic Review (magazine folded) and agony aunt for Time Out (sacked). He currently writes regularly for the Sunday Times, where he is lead theatre critic, and the Daily Mail. He claims descent from the Irish Napiers and the Earls of Banbury (now defunct.)

Bibliography

As Christopher Hart

• The Harvest (1999)
• Rescue Me (2001)

As William Napier

• Julia: An Epic Tale of Love And War Set in the Final Days of the Roman Empire (2001)
• Attila (Attila: The Scourge of God) (2005)
• Attila: The Gathering of the Storm (2007)
• Attila: The Judgement (2008)
• Clash of Empires: The Great Siege (2011) ISBN 1409105342; ISBN 9781409105343
• Clash of Empires: The Red Sea (5 July 2012)
• The Last Crusaders: Ivan the Terrible (2014) ISBN 1409105377