Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British writer and broadcaster and, until her retirement from teaching in 2021, was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

[1] During the 1960s, when Stott was growing up, the cult forbade its members to make use of newspapers, television, cinema, radio, universities, wristwatches and cameras.

Brooke comes to suspect that the death of the book's author, Cambridge historian Elizabeth Vogelsang, may somehow relate to a series of unsolved seventeenth-century murders.

The novel, an innovative mix of fiction and non-fiction, blends seventeenth-century accounts of plague, glassmaking, alchemy and theories of optics with a contemporary plot involving quantum physics and animal rights campaigns.

Ghostwalk has an all-too-rare scholarly authority and imaginative sparkle" and compared it to the works of Borges and Edgar Allan Poe.

[7] Stott's second novel, The Coral Thief, set in 1815 post-Napoleonic France, is a thriller that explores religion, rationalism, and evolutionary theory while its hero, a medical student, becomes drawn into a daring jewel heist.

[8] Kate Williams in the Financial Times described it as "an intellectual thriller, a book of penetrating humanity and a vivid evocation of Paris in the wake of Bonaparte's defeat".

The Observer called it: "radically new and beautiful, a book that retells a period of our national past that straddles the line between history and myth.

[11] In June 2017, Stott published In the Days of Rain, a family memoir about growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, a secretive and separatist Christian fundamentalist cult.