Kate Summerscale, author portrait
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Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale, formerly the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, is the author of The Book of Phobias and Manias and The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, a number one bestseller in the UK, which was translated into more than a dozen languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her first book, The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Award, The Wicked Boy won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and The Haunting of Alma Fielding was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Summerscale lives in London.
The Peepshow
The Book of Phobias and Manias
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Wicked Boy

Books

The Peepshow
The Book of Phobias and Manias
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Wicked Boy