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Fiona Valpy is an acclaimed bestselling author, with three million readers world-wide. Her novels have held the number 1 position on the Amazon Kindle charts in the USA, UK and Australia, and been listed as Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. Translation rights have been sold in 30 countries for more than 70 foreign language editions.
Fiona is a patron of the Birnam Book Festival, Innerpeffray Library, the Teapot Trust and the Little Sherpa Foundation. Through donations from royalties, she’s raised £12,000 (and counting) for the global charity Médecins Sans Frontières and The Little Sherpa Foundation. When not writing, she enjoys daily dips in the River Tay and walking in the hills around her home.
Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian
Events will deliver
Chairing events; Panel event; Reading; Talk
Topics of work
Contemporary fiction; Historical fiction; Wars & conflicts; World War 2
