Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Katie Hickman (born 1960cite_ref-01[1]) is an English novelist and travel writer. Hickman studied English literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. The daughter of a diplomat, she began her career as a travel writer. Her first book was Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon (1987), an account of a journey across Bhutan. She followed it with A Trip to the Light Fantastic (1993), which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her next book, Daughters of Britannia: the Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives (1999) was a best-seller, and launched her as an author of history books. It was serialised on the BBC Radio 4 series Woman s Hour.