Pip Vaughan-Hughes was born in London and grew up on Dartmoor in south west England. He is the author of the Petroc series - RELICS, VAULT OF BONES, PAINTED IN BLOOD and THE FOOLS' CRUSADE - about a relic smuggler in Thirteenth Century Europe. As Philip Kazan, he has written two novels set in Fifteenth Century Florence: APPETITE, about the adventures of an early celebrity chef and THE PAINTER OF SOULS, an imagining of the early career of the artist Fra Filippo Lippi, which the Daily Mail called 'an irresistible feast of painting and quattrocento Italy, beautifully written and magnificently researched... a sheer pleasure from start to finish'. After living in New York and Vermont, Pip is back on the edge of Dartmoor with his wife and three children. He blogs at philipkazan.wordpress.com and is on Twitter as @pipkazan.