Kate Summerscale
just won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the UK’s top non-fiction prize, for
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. She will receive £30,000. Rosie Boycott, chair of the judges, has this to say about Summerscale’s book:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is 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.
My positive review of
Mr. Whicher appears
here.
Kate Summerscale just won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the UK’s top non-fiction prize, for The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. She will receive £30,000. Rosie Boycott, chair of the judges, has this to say about Summerscale’s book:
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