Rae Campbell writes literary fiction in which the machinery of the thriller — surveillance, secrecy, the things done under colour of authority — is bent toward slower, more lasting questions: what we owe the truth, and what telling it costs. The novels move between the contemporary and the historical, but share a preoccupation with power and the people it forgets to count.

Rae has held senior leadership roles in the corporate and legal worlds — a background that gives the fiction its grain: an insider's eye for how institutions exercise power, manage what they would rather not disclose, and account for themselves only when made to.

Two novels are complete. The Cranes of Ibycus is a novel of present-day espionage and the law's grey margins. Pallamaglio is a historical novel set against the Battle of Trafalgar.

Rae lives in Hampshire, with a busy family and three dogs.