Reay Tannahill

Reay Tannahill (9 December 1929 – 2 November 2007) was a British historian, non-fiction writer, and novelist, best known perhaps for two non-fiction bestsellers: Food in History and Sex in History. She also wrote under the pseudonym Annabel Laine. Her novel Passing Glory won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Biography

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

Non-fiction works Regency England: The Great Age of the Colour Print (1964) Paris in the Revolution: A Collection of Eye-witness Accounts (1966) The Fine Art of Food (1969) Food in History (1973) (Stein and Day publishers) Flesh & Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex (1975) Sex in History (1980)

Historical fiction

Single novels A Dark and Distant Shore (1983) The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1985) Passing Glory (1989) In Still and Stormy Waters (1992) Return of the Stranger (1995) Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots (1998) The Seventh Son (2001)

Dame Constance de Clair Series Having the Builders in (2006) Having the Decorators in (2007)

As Annabel Laine The Reluctant Heiress (1979) The Melancholy Virgin (1982)

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