The much anticipated follow up to The Five. Story of a Murder is an epic examination of the historical true-crime story of infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen in Edwardian England, brought to justice by an extraordinary group of women.
The Five
The Five was the 2019 winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction and was shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize. It is the…
The French Lesson
Paris, 1792 Henrietta Lightfoot, a young Englishwoman fleeing from a dishonourable past in London, finds herself alone in a foreign city in the middle of…
The Scandalous Lady W / Lady Worsley’s Whim
Lady Worsley’s Whim was reissued by Vintage Books under the title of the BBC drama, The Scandalous Lady W, starring Natalie Dormer, Shaun Evans and…
Mistress of My Fate; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot
The 22nd October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared…
The Covent Garden Ladies; Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris’s List
(Tempus Publishing, 2005 & Transworld/Doubleday 2020) In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head-waiter of Covent Garden’s Shakespeare’s Head Tavern, and a celebrated London courtesan…
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
(Doubleday,2012) Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the eighteenth centuryshifting 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual ‘guidebook’, it…