LP Fergusson

LP Fergusson was awarded an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Oxford Brookes University and won the Blackwell’s Prize for MA Creative Writing. Her stories have made a number of shortlists for competitions run by the Orwell Society, Oxfordshire Libraries, Flash500 and NYC Midnight. Her psychological thriller reached the final three of a Quercus/Psychologies Thriller competition. Her wartime novel Dark Barn was Highly Commended in the Caledonia Novel Award 2018 and published by Canelo as A Dangerous Act of Kindness.

She spent a number of years working at Blenheim Palace, which inspired the Duntisbourne Hall series of cosy mystery novels. At present she is working on a second historical novel for Canelo.

She also edits the historical blog With Love from Graz which was featured on BBC Radio Wales, Radio 2 and BBC4’s A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley. She now lives in an Oxfordshire village beneath the chalk downs where her Second World War novel A Dangerous Act of Kindness is set.

She is represented by Giles Milburn at Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency.