About
Angela Elliott - Novelist and Screenwriter
Represented by Julian Friedmann at Blake Friedmann
Film and television
Angela began her television career contributing to the BBC’s Global Concerns programme before moving into documentaries and film. Working with Stanley Kubrick’s former assistant Norrie Maclaren at Tartan Television and Plantagenet Films, she created more than thirty documentaries on subjects including gardening, the environment and science.
She went on to write feature-length screenplays and worked with John Gilbert, son of director Lewis Gilbert, and actor Stewart Bevan. She also co-developed a treatment for a sequel to Roger Donaldson’s The Bounty with the original film’s executive producer, Bernie Williams.
Books
Angela’s fiction draws on remarkable lives, hidden histories and the territory between fact and invention. Her published novels include Some Strange Scent of Death, inspired by the disappearance of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers; Georgian crime novel The Finish; and The Nine Lives of Antoine Montvoisin, shortlisted for the 2022 Mslexia Fiction Prize, judged by Hilary Mantel. Angela was interviewed about the Flannan Isles mystery for the Discovery Channel programme Unexplained.
Background
Angela studied Fine Art and worked as a graphic artist before retraining as a semiconductor engineer in the microelectronics industry. She later became a counsellor specialising in supporting victims of crime and people bereaved by homicide.
She is also a bellringer and editor of the quarterly Middlesex Bell News. She lives in London.