Kate Summerscale (edit name/settings)

Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She 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. She lives in London with her son.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, published by Bloomsbury in April 2008 and in paperback in April 2011 has been awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008. The hardback now available containes a special eight-page gatefold section of contemporary documents from the Road Hill House investigation, including letters, police reports and Whicher's case notes.

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace is a compelling story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy, and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality. To be published by Bloomsbury in May 2012, Kate Summerscale brings to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love.