I’m a biographer and writer of historical non fiction. In 2022, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. My latest book, No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer & Writer (The History Press), is shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2025 (Biography/Memoir category).

Books to date:

The Voice From the Garden: Pamela Hambro & the Tale of Two Families Before and After the Great War (SilverWood Books 2012, longlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2013)

Duchesses: Living in 21st Century Britain (Blink, 2014)

Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II (Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2018; Lume Books, 2020)

Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy (The History Press, 2022)

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer & Writer (The History Press, 2025). Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2025.

For Princess and Duchesses I’m represented by literary agent Andrew Lownie.

Other:

I also write features for magazines/newspapers/websites.  Publications include History Today, History Scotland, The London Gazette, Majesty, Country Life, BRITAIN etc.

I am an experienced public speaker and have also presented on radio and appeared on television (‘Our Queen in Wartime’, ITV and PBS, April 2020; ‘Elizabeth: A Life Through the Lens’, Channel 4, July 2023) and in podcasts.

Memberships include the Society of Authors; the Biographers’ Club; BIO; the Law Society of England and Wales (as a former practising solicitor)