Diana Norman, British author and journalist. died she was , 77

Diana Norman  was a British author and journalist writing historical fiction and non-fiction died she was , 77. She was born in Devon. Her father was a journalist, and she followed this profession until moving to the countryside to "bring up two daughters, study medieval history, and write".^{[2][unreliable source?]} She also published books under the pen name Ariana Franklin, featuring the fictional medieval pathologist Adelia Aguilar.
Diana Norman was married to the film critic Barry Norman. She died on 27 January 2011.^[3]

(25 August 1933 – 27 January 2011)

Novels

Writing as Diana Norman

• Fitzempress' Law (1980)
• King of the Last Days (1981)
• The Morning Gift (1985)
• Daughter of Lîr (1988)
• Pirate Queen (1991)
• The Vizard Mask (1994)
• Shores of Darkness (1996)
• Blood Royal (1998)
• A Catch of Consequence (2002)
• Taking Liberties (2003)
• The Sparks Fly Upward (2006)

Writing as Ariana Franklin

• A Murderous Procession (2010)
• Relics of the Dead (UK) published as Grave Goods in the US (2009)
• The Death Maze (UK) published as The Serpent's Tale in the US (2008)
• Mistress of the Art of Death (2007) winner of a prize from the Crime Writers' Association^[4]

• City of Shadows (2006)

Non-fiction

• Taking Liberties (2003)
• Terrible Beauty: Life of Constance Markievicz, 1868-1927 (1987)
• Road from Singapore (1970, 1979)
• The Stately Ghosts of England (1963, 1977)

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