A Double Life: The Times’ & Observer’s Thriller of the Month
By Staff, 13th August 2020Features 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore.' My second novel is The Times' Book of the Month for July 2020
Given Charlotte Philby’s background — she is the granddaughter of the KGB agent Kim — one might expect this to be a spy novel, and there are traces of that. Yet this tale of a life spinning out of control is closer to Patricia Highsmith territory. Gabriela is a counterterror specialist who stumbles into a conspiracy, while journalist Isobel investigates after seeing a woman attacked on Hampstead Heath. What links the two women? Subterfuge, paranoia and chills galore.
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Features 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore.' My second novel is The Times' Book of the Month for July 2020
A Double Life: exclusive excerpt
By Staff, 1st June 2020Features Read the first chapter from my forthcoming novel A Double Life, which runs as a short story in the Mystery issue of Popshot Quarterly
Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month
By Staff, 2nd May 2020Features My debut novel Part of the Family is the store's top pick for May - whoop whoop!
‘Lockdown has made me realise I’m a workaholic’
By Charlotte Philby, 2nd May 2020Features With homeschooling due to lockdown forcing me to temporarily step back and take stock, I wrote about the ups, downs and revelations of navigating isolation as a workaholic for Red magazine
‘There are two sides to every story. And then there’s the truth…’
By Staff, 26th March 2020Features My second novel, A Double Act, is available for preorder now
Life in the time of Coronavirus
By Charlotte Philby, 26th March 2020Features Marie Claire asked me to write about working from home with three children, a dog, a cat, and my husband. I did, and it ain't pretty
New Statesman: Walking An Old Man Home in Camden Town
By Charlotte Philby, 26th March 2020Features My piece for the Personal Story slot in the New Statesman is a love letter to London pubs, and a lament for the people to whom these places were once home
How to write a novel when you’re really, really busy
By Staff, 27th November 2019Features Marie Claire asked me to offer tips on how to start and finish a book when life is messy and chaotic. They asked the right person
Growing up in the shadow of the Third Man
By Charlotte Philby, 21st July 2019Features In this long read for the ipaper, I explore what it was like for my father, John, to learn his father, Kim Philby, was a Communist double agent
‘Hitting rock bottom enabled me to think about what I wanted from life’
By Staff, 21st July 2019Features My piece for the August 2019 issue of Marie Claire on perseverance in the face of adversity, and the importance of failure in getting to where you want to be