Arabella Edge read English at Bristol University and went to live in Australia in 1992. She obtained a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of Technology in Sydney. Arabella lives in Tasmania with her husband Nick Gaze who is a jewelry designer. She has worked as a journalist for various newspapers including feature editor of CTN, a weekly business magazine aimed at the news trade. Her short stories have been published in a number of literary magazines.

Her first novel, THE COMPANY (Picador UK 2000), is based on the shipwreck of the Dutch ship the Batavia which foundered off the coast of Western Australia in 1629 with the loss of forty lives. It was published to critical acclaim in Australia, Britain and the US and translated into Dutch, French and German. It won the Best First Book in the 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the South East Asia and South Pacific region and was short-listed for Australia’s prestigious Miles Franklin Award 2001.

THE RAFT is set in Paris during the upheavals of the French revolution, the Empire and the Restoration, and is based on the life of the French painter Gericault.

Set in Paris in 1818 during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration, Arabella Edge's second novel is inspired by the story of Theodore Gericault and his extraordinary struggle to paint his masterpiece, The Raft of Medusa.

This is a tale of grand passion. In prose that vividly evokes its setting, Arabella Edge has brought to life the creation of an epic painting.