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Kate studied her BA at Somerville College, Oxford where she was a College Scholar and received the Violet Vaughan Morgan University Scholarship. She then took her MA at Queen Mary, University of London and her DPhil at Oxford, where she received a graduate prize. She also took an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now teaches at Royal Holloway.
Her first book, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton was published in 2006, after five years of research in archives across the world. It was Book of the Week on Radio 4, a Book of the Year in the Times and the Independent and shortlisted for the Marsh Prize for Biography. Kate writes features and comment pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Spectator, Time Out, BBC History Magazine and History Today. She reviews history books for History Today and BBC History Magazine and fiction for the Financial Times and Mslexia.
Her first book, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton was published in 2006, after five years of research in archives across the world. It was Book of the Week on Radio 4, a Book of the Year in the Times and the Independent and shortlisted for the Marsh Prize for Biography. Kate writes features and comment pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Spectator, Time Out, BBC History Magazine and History Today. She reviews history books for History Today and BBC History Magazine and fiction for the Financial Times and Mslexia.
Genres: Historical
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Series
De Witt Family
1. The Storms of War (2014)
2. The Edge of the Fall (2015)
3. The House of Shadows (2018)
1. The Storms of War (2014)
2. The Edge of the Fall (2015)
3. The House of Shadows (2018)
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Kate Williams recommends
The Ghost Ship (2023)
(Joubert Family Chronicles, book 3)
Kate Mosse
"Gripping, thrilling, a spectacular work of scholarly reimagining, The Ghost Ship is a beautiful book about two women, about love, courage, suffering, and a world in which everything was on a knife edge. A stunning novel, a whole world recreated."
Essex Dogs (2022)
(Essex Dogs Trilogy, book 1)
Dan Jones
"The battles that shaped Europe from the point of view of the soldiers... Searing."
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