Thom Braun has been an academic (with PhDs in two different arts disciplines), an international marketing director for a multinational business, a creative strategy consultant with a global media agency, and a parish priest. His publications range from a literary biography of Benjamin Disraeli to The Philosophy of Branding (published in ten languages) and a satirical novel about the commercialisation of the Church of England. He has also had plays on eighteenth-century historical themes performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. Hungerford Stairs is his first historical novel.