Essie was born and raised in Herefordshire, and studied English Literature at Sheffield Universtity.
Her debut, The Somnambulist, was shortlisted for the National Book Awards, and featured on Channel 4’s TV Book Club. The Fascination was a Sunday Times best seller. Dangerous, a crime mystery featuring Lord Byron’s time in Venice, was also selected as a Times Book of the Month.
Essie has lectured at the V&A, the Westminster Library, and National Gallery in London. She also hosts a podcast called Talking the Gothic.
To contact Essie please email her literary agent: david.headley@dhhliteraryagency.com. or her publisher: Karen@orendabook.co.uk
BRONTE LOUNGE ONLINE EVENT on Thursday 2 April
Essie will be discussing the inspiration for her novel, Catherine, with the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
A link to the event is here
More events will be added as soon as times and dates have been confirmed – including the Bookclub Tour Podcast, the Grantham Literary festival, the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival, an online event with Warwick’s bookshop in California, the Scarborough Literary Festival, the Capital Crime Festival in London, the Bradford Literary Festival, the Historical Novels Association Conference in Maynooth as a keynote speaker in a session titled Gothic Legends for Today’s Readers, and The Edinburgh International Book Festival
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