Paula Brackston

Paula Brackston is an English novelist, born in Dorset, who also writes under the pen names P. J. Brackston, P. J. Davy, and Mabli Roberts. She holds an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University and is a New York Times bestselling author best known for The Witch's Daughter, which follows a witch who has survived for centuries while hiding from the dark forces that once hunted her, and its sequel-adjacent Hecate Cavendish and White Shadow Trilogy books. Her Brothers Grimm Mysteries series reimagines figures from classic fairy tales as investigators solving crimes tinged with magic, and The Little Shop of Found Things follows an antiques dealer who discovers she can travel through time via the objects she sells. Brackston's fiction consistently blends historical settings with witchcraft and time-slip fantasy.