He is best known for his John Shakespeare books, set in the Elizabethan era, and the Tom Wilde second world war spy thriller series.
He has found success with his series of Elizabethan historical thriller novels about the character of John Shakespeare, and also the Tom Wilde series of spy novels focused on the second world war era.
[3][5][6] A further three of the John Shakespeare novels, Martyr, Prince, and The Heretics, were nominated for the same award.
[7] In 2018 Clements won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award again, this time with the second world war Tom Wilde thriller novel Nucleus.
[1] Clements lives in Norfolk, England, and is married to artist Naomi Clements-Wright.