Jane Johnson is a Cornish writer and publisher. She has written several historical novels (including The Tenth Gift, about the Barbary pirate raid on Penzance) and as a publishing director for HarperCollins is the UK publisher of George RR Martin, Dean Koontz, Robin Hobb and many other bestselling authors. In 2005 while researching a novel in Morocco she met and fell in love with a Berber tribesman: they now live in Mousehole. Her new novel The Sea Gate is set in Cornwall and will be published in 2020.