I’m a biographer and writer of historical non fiction.  As at October 2021, I’m the recipient of an Antonia Fraser Award for my proposed biography of Lady Dorothy Mills (nee Walpole, 1889-1959), traveller, novelist, travel writer.

Coming soon (Feb. 2022): Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy (The History Press)

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)

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

Other:

I write features for magazines/newspapers/websites.  Publications include History Today, Britain at War, 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) 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)