‘A rising star of British thriller writing.’

By Staff, 23rd July 2024
Features 'I arrived to meet Charlotte Philby, granddaughter of a spy, and left having interviewed Charlotte Philby, one of the rising stars of British thriller writing.' Sunday Times Culture interview by Tim Shipman

THE END OF SUMMER reviews

By Staff, 4th July 2024
Features ‘A standout literary thriller.’ THE FT ‘Ingenious, intriguing, colourful and very entertaining, this is the ideal summer holiday novel.’ LITERARY REVIEW

THE END OF SUMMER – Sunday Times thriller of the month

By Staff, 10th June 2024
Features 'In short: an enthralling, multilayered triumph.' THE END OF SUMMER reviewed in this month's Sunday Times

Introducing DIRTY MONEY: announcement in The Bookseller

By Staff, 19th May 2024
Features The first quotes are in for my new Farrow & Chang series, publishing with Baskerville in early 2025

Exclusive excerpt: THE END OF SUMMER

By Staff, 7th December 2023
Features Read the prologue from my forthcoming novel - 'a bold, nuanced literary thriller dripping with secrets and deadly glamour’ - publishing in June 2024

THE END OF SUMMER announced in The Bookseller

By Staff, 6th November 2023
Features My new literary suspense THE END OF SUMMER announced in The Bookseller

Observer New Review Q&A

By Staff, 22nd March 2022
Features An interview with Stephanie Merritt about Edith and Kim, the perils of writing about family, and why female spies often get overlooked

Researching Edith and Kim

By Staff, 17th November 2021
Features From a compendium of stories about life at the Bauhaus to a Modernist memoir by the founder of the iconic Isokon, here are some of the books that inspired my forthcoming novel

Edith Tudor-Hart: The “grandmother” of the Cambridge Spies

By Staff, 31st August 2021
Features For the Telegraph, I wrote about the woman who recruited my grandfather to the Soviets - the subject of my forthcoming novel Edith and Kim

John le Carré: The writer who made me want to write

By Staff, 31st August 2021
Features My tribute to the late - and truly great - master of spy fiction, for the i paper