Reay Tannahill

Background

Reay Tannahill was born on 9 December 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland, where she brought up. Her forename was the maiden name of her mother, Olive Reay.

Education

She was educated at Shawlands Academy, and obtained an Master of Arts in History and a postgraduate certificate in Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.

Career

She also wrote under the pseudonym Annabel Laine. Personal life

Until her death on 2 November 2007 she lived in a smart terraced house in London near Tate Britain. Before she started to write, she worked as a probation officer, advertising copywriter, newspaper reporter, historical researcher and graphic designer.

She published her first non-fiction book in 1964.

With the international success came with the book Food in History, her publisher suggested a companion volume on the second great human imperative, Sex in History. She belonged to the Arts Club and the Authors" Club, and was chairman of the latter from 1997 to 2000.

Achievements

• Her novel Passing Glory won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists" Association. Foreign her 2002 revised edition of Food in History, she won the Premio Letterario Internazionale Chianti Ruffino Antico Fattore. She also wrote historical romance novels, and in 1990, her novel Passing Glory won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists" Association.

Works

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  • The Seventh Son: A Unique Portrait of Richard III

    ( A superb historical novel about Richard III which will ...)

  • Food in History

    (Non fiction hardback, cookery.)

  • The Seventh Son: A Unique Portrait of Richard III by Reay Tannahill (28-Feb-2013) Paperback
  • Seventh Son by Reay Tannahill (2002-09-01)