Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number-one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher , published in 2008, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award. Her debut, The Queen of Whale Cay , won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. The Wicked Boy , published in 2016, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, and The Haunting of Alma Fielding , published in 2020, was...See more

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number-one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher , published in 2008, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award. Her debut, The Queen of Whale Cay , won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. The Wicked Boy , published in 2016, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, and The Haunting of Alma Fielding , published in 2020, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. See less