Courage for the Flying Nightingales

Award-winning British author Vicki Beeby writes historical fiction about the friendships and loves of service women brought together by the Second World War. Her wartime series include The Women's Auxiliary Air Force series, The Wrens series and the Bomber Command Girls series. A New Start for the Wrens, the first instalment in Beeby's The Wrens series, won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Saga Novel of the Year award in 2023. Beeby worked as a civil engineer, a maths teacher and an education consultant before turning freelance to give herself more time to write. Beeby currently lives in Shropshire, UK, and her latest book is Courage for the Flying Nightingales (2026).

Eleanor Howell is an actress and voice over artist with over 20 years experience on stage and screen. Her TV credits include Coronation Street, Doctors and Casualty. She has extensive experience narrating radio plays and audiobooks, some of which are a leading role in the 6 part series for the BBC: Dickens Confidential and The Society of Literary Marauders by Sasha Wasley.