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Join us for an evening with Kate Summerscale who talks about her prize-winning book - "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House" - which has just won the esteemed Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
Join us for an evening with Kate Summerscale who talks about her prize-winning book - "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House" - which has just won the esteemed Samuel Johnson prize for nonfiction. The whodunnit tells the story of an 1860 unsolved child murder that baffled Scotland Yard's finest detectives and inspired writers including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Rosie Boycott, chair of the judges, described the book as: "a dramatic, page-turning detective yarn of a real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. Kate Summerscale has brilliantly merged scrupulous archival research with vivid storytelling that reads with the pace of a Victorian thriller. The book is a rare work of non-fiction that mimics suspense genre and leaves one gripped until the final paragraph."
Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in London with her son.
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23 July 2008 at 7:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Frontline Club |
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£10.00 |
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http://www.frontlineclub.com |
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Frontline is a media club that uniquely combines eating, drinking and thinking. A three-minute walk from Paddington Station, spread over three stripped wooden floors, it has a private clubroom for members, and a restaurant and forum space open to the public. |
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