Ian Crofton's authorial credits include Brewer's Britain and Ireland, the 2nd edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable and Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities. For Quercus he has written The Kings and Queens of England and History without the Boring Bits (2007). He lives in North London with his family.

Tarpeia. Charles I. Genrikh Yagoda. Tarquin the Proud. Benedict Arnold. Vichy collaborators. Coriolanus. William Wordsworth. Duncan Scott-Ford. Alcibiades. John Brown. The White Rose (Sophie Scholl). Arminius. Rose Greenhow. July Plot (Hitler). Judas. Roger Casement. Lord Haw-Haw. King John. Easter Rising rebels. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Anne Boleyn. Mata Hari. Kim Philby. Lady Jane Grey. Norman Baillie-Stewart. Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano. Guy Fawkes. Pu Yi. Aldrich Ames.