Jill McGivering has worked in journalism for 25 years. She is currently a senior foreign news journalist with the BBC having previously held the position of South Asia Correspondent (based in Delhi). Now based in London, she travels extensively for the BBC including assignments to Afghanistan and China. She has already written non-fiction, short fiction and plays. Her first novel, THE LAST KESTREL, publ Aug 2010, is set in Afghanistan. Her second, FAR FROM MY FATHER'S HOUSE, publ August 2011, is set in North-West Pakistan.
