Anthony Sattin is a British journalist and broadcaster and the author of several highly acclaimed books of history and travel. He completed a literature degree at the University of Warwick and an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His main area of interest is the Middle East and Africa, particularly Egypt, and he has lived and travelled extensively in these regions. Sattin's books include The Pharaoh's Shadow, Shooting the Breeze, Lifting the Veil, The Gates of Africa, and A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt, which was described as 'a triumph of the historical imagination' and chosen by several papers as one of their books of the year: the Independent called it 'some of the best writing of the year.' He discovered and edited Florence Nightingale's previously unpublished letters from Egypt and has edited A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad., which is sometimes used as a set text for teaching English A-level. His most recent book is Young Lawrence: a Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man, published in the UK in October 2014, in the US in January 2015.