Book cover for "The Yellow Tail Moth" by Margot Shepherd, featuring a large moon in the background with tree branches, autumn leaves, and a white moth with yellow markings.
Book cover for "Never Closer" by Margot Shepherd featuring a woman in vintage attire with a bicycle, walking along a country lane under a cloudy sky, with the Bridge of Sighs, Oxford in the background.

Welcome

 I write historical and contemporary literary novels that are inspired by real events.

They are standalone novels that explore relationships and the complexities of human experience.

Book cover for "The Yellow Tail Moth" by Margot Shepherd, featuring a large moon in the background with tree branches, autumn leaves, and a white moth with yellow markings.

The Yellow-Tail Moth

Coming October 2025

The Yellow-Tail Moth is the new contemporary mystery novel from Margot Shepherd, the best-selling author of Never Closer.

This is a story about two women who are both hiding from traumatic events in their lives in a rural English village. It is a story about loneliness, despair and prejudice. But it is also about friendship and the wonders of the natural world.

Book cover for "Never Closer" by Margot Shepherd featuring a woman in vintage attire with a bicycle, walking along a country lane under a cloudy sky, with the Bridge of Sighs, Oxford in the background.

Never Closer

The debut novel from Margot Shepherd, Never Closer is a story about how penicillin touches the lives of two women living 75 years apart.

This best-selling historical novel tells the little-known story of the development of penicillin through the eyes of one of the ‘penicillin girls’ who played a key role in its production. 

Set in England, it is a gripping page turner about family dynamics and women being able to choose who they want to be.

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