Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale was working on the obituaries desk at the Daily Telegraph when she came across the inspiration for her first book. She later went on to develop a
ground-breaking new form of narrative non-fiction writing which culminated in her
number-one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson
Prize for Non-Fiction 2008 and later adapted into an ITV drama starring Peter Capaldi.
She began writing her new book The Peepshow in the spring of 2021, soon after the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard. She hoped that a case from the past might help her understand why a man might choose to kill women – and why we are so fascinated by such stories. Summerscale has published five previous books with Bloomsbury. To date her books have sold more than 600,000 copies in the UK.
Past Events
5x15 returns to The Tabernacle - join us in October for an evening of inspiring storytelling from a superb line-up of speakers.
London Library Lit Fest: Science & Miscellaneous 5x15
To celebrate the London Library’s weird and wild heart, we've brought together five acclaimed speakers to share stories inspired by the Science and Miscellaneous section.