Kate Summerscale
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born
January 01, 1965
gender
female
place of birth
London, The United Kingdom
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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
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Kate Summerscale (born in 1965) is an award-winning English writer and journalist.
She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House[1] which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water', which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography.
She worked for The Independent and from 1995 to 1996 she wrote and edited obituaries for The Daily Telegraph.[2] She is the former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph[3][4]. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.[5]
She has also judged va...more
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale avg rating 3.39 — 919 ratings — published 2008 18 editions |
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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 1997 8 editions |
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AFFAIRE DE ROAD HILL HOUSE -L' by Kate Summerscale, Eric Chedaille avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Private Lives Collection: "Iris - A Memoir of Iris Murdoch", "Dangerous Ground", "The Queen of Whale Cay" by John Bayley, Kate Summerscale, Roger Cook , Derek Jacobi , Sophie Ward avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002 |
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