Introducing DIRTY MONEY: announcement in The Bookseller
By Staff, 13th February 2024Features The first quotes are in for my new Farrow & Chang series, publishing with Baskerville in early 2025
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Features The first quotes are in for my new Farrow & Chang series, publishing with Baskerville in early 2025
Exclusive excerpt: THE END OF SUMMER
By Staff, 7th December 2023Features Read the prologue from my forthcoming novel - 'a bold, nuanced literary thriller dripping with secrets and deadly glamour’ - publishing in June 2024
By Staff, 6th November 2023
Features My new literary suspense THE END OF SUMMER announced in The Bookseller
Observer New Review Q&A
By Staff, 22nd March 2022Features An interview with Stephanie Merritt about Edith and Kim, the perils of writing about family, and why female spies often get overlooked
Researching Edith and Kim
By Staff, 17th November 2021Features From a compendium of stories about life at the Bauhaus to a Modernist memoir by the founder of the iconic Isokon, here are some of the books that inspired my forthcoming novel
Edith Tudor-Hart: The “grandmother” of the Cambridge Spies
By Staff, 31st August 2021Features For the Telegraph, I wrote about the woman who recruited my grandfather to the Soviets - the subject of my forthcoming novel Edith and Kim
John le Carré: The writer who made me want to write
By Staff, 31st August 2021Features My tribute to the late - and truly great - master of spy fiction, for the i paper
Book festivals 2021
By Staff, 19th August 2021Features From a celebration of the life of John le Carré at Cheltenham to an exploration of women and crime in Chiswick, please join me at one of the following events, across the country (and the internet!)
ELLE: An unexpected friendship with ‘the other woman’
By Staff, 15th June 2021Features When author Charlotte Philby's partner ended their relationship, her world fell apart. Rebuilding it meant forging a unique friendship with the very woman he left her for.
The Second Woman: Best new fiction, Mail on Sunday. Best thrillers for July 2021, The Times.
By Staff, 4th February 2021Features ‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller.’ THE SECOND WOMAN - the third of three connected, stand-alone novels - is available now