Hilary Macaskill is a journalist and travel writer. She is co-author with Molly Wood of Downhill All the Way: Walking with Donkeys on the Stevenson Trail (Frances Lincoln, 2006), and has written, as well as Agatha Christie at Home, Charles Dickens at Home (Frances Lincoln, 2012), Daphne du Maurier at Home (Frances Lincoln, 2013) and Virginia Woolf at Home (Pimpernel Press, 2019). She lives in London.