The history of the UK's real-life female detectives told for the first time
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This author weaves narratives rich with themes of swimming, London's history, and the stories of outsiders. Her early works, influenced by twelve years spent in Botswana, offer glimpses into life beyond the familiar. Later, her focus shifted to the vibrant history and hidden narratives of London, uncovering fascinating figures and events. Her prose is marked by a deep engagement with historical characters and their fates, often with a distinctive focus on aquatic pursuits and their cultural significance.
- 2023
- 2021
The incredible story of Britain's female gangsters from the seventeenth century to the present day.
- 2018
A tale of love, betrayal and swimming based on the true stories of champion Victorian women.
- 2018
Bad Girls
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
A history of a century of women, punishment and crime in HM Prison Holloway.
- 2014
In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.
- 2013
A unique piece of London, cradle of design talent, heartland of the capital’s music scene, multicultural melting pot, Camden Lock is the world’s most famous market. The Lock started life as a collection of craft units housed in Victorian horse stables in a run-down timber wharf on the banks of the Regent’s Canal. Today an industrial dead zone has been transformed into London’s second most popular free attraction after the British Museum. The story of Camden Lock is one of dereliction and rejuvenation. Careers have started – and ended – at the Lock. Fortunes have been made, and lost, overnight. Craftspeople have become internationally known artists. Struggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.
- 2012
The first time Annie Sweet sees 43 Stanley Road, the house is so perfect she almost feels as though it has chosen her. Spanning an entire century, from the journals of an Edwardian police inspector to a doomed wartime love affair, The Ghost of Lily Painter is a gripping and poignant novel.
- 2006
The true story of a remarkable woman and her twelve extraordinary years in Botswana.