Tamzin Merchant

Tamzin Merchant is an English actress and author. She has appeared in The Tudors, Pride & Prejudice, Salem and Carnival Row. She began writing after a dream, during filming for Carnival Row, about a London family who weave magic into hats. That became her debut novel, The Hatmakers (2021), the first in a middle-grade fantasy series following Cordelia Hatmaker, continued in The Mapmakers (2022) and The Troublemakers (2024).