Alice McVeigh, novelist

Alice McVeigh, a London-based writer and professional cellist, has had two contemporary novels published by Orion/Hachette, one dystopian thriller published by UK's Unbound (writing as Spaulding Taylor) and four multi-award-winning Austenesque novels published by Warleigh House Press. Two of her novels made the UK 2024 and 2025 Selfies finals (last seven, all genre, adult fiction). Two have been runners-up for Foreword Indies' "Book of the Year" (2022 and 2024); one was a BookLife quarterfinalist. 

Alice is married to Professor Simon McVeigh, and lives in London. They have one daughter, pursuing a PhD at Harvard. The McVeighs also share two long-haired dachshunds and a home in Crete. They waste a lot of time watching pro tennis.