Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, published in April 2008, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, the 2009 Galaxy Book of the Year and is a Number One International Bestseller. Kate Summerscale lives in London.