Alec Marsh is an author and journalist

Alec Marsh is the author of the Drabble & Harris books, published by Headline Accent.

Portrait: David Harrison

Marsh was born in Essex in 1975. He attended Ardingly College in West Sussex and then studied history at Newcastle University before embarking on a career in journalism. He started as a reporter at the Western Morning News in Cornwall before moving to The Daily Telegraph in London. He has gone on to write for most national newspapers including The Times, the Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and edited Spear’s magazine from 2017 to 2020, before being appointed editor-at-large. In addition has written for the New Statesman, The Spectator, National Geographic, The Field, Country Life, Aspects of History, and more. Marsh lives in North Essex with his wife and family. Over the course of his career he has interviewed many leading political and cultural figures.

His first Drabble & Harris book was Rule Britannia, which is set against the backdrop of the Abdication Crisis in 1936. It was published in October 2019 by Headline Accent. The second novel in the series, Enemy of the Raj, is set in British India in 1937, and was released in September 2020. The third in the series, Ghosts of the West, was published in September 2021 and sees Drabble and Harris journey to the United States.

Marsh is working on the fourth book in the series which will be set in Turkey.