Story of a Murder

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…

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…