Emma Barnes (E.J. Barnes) is a professional writer and the author of a novel about Keynes’ life in the 1920s. She was recently a panellist at the International Virginia Woolf Conference, talking about her novel about Keynes, and has also been a speaker at literary festivals (including Edinburgh International Book Festival), libraries, schools and book groups. She has written for radio, theatre and screen as well as novels and children's fiction, and been translated into several languages; was commended in the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize and won an Arts Council Writer’s Award. Her novel , Mr Keynes Revolution, has been praised by experts in the field (“history that is vivid on the page” – Judith Mackrell, biographer of Lydia Lopokova.)

More information can be found at her web-site: www.EJBarnesAuthor.com