Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. ^ "Bloomsbury page on Kate Summerscale".^ Archived 28 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine.The Book of Phobias and Manias, Profile Books, October 2022.The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story (2020).The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer ().The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, Bloomsbury, April 2008.The Queen of Whale Cay, Fourth Estate, August 1997.2020 Baillie Gifford Prize, shortlist, The Haunting of Alma Fielding.2017 Edgar Awards (Best Fact Crime), winner, The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer.2010 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.2009 Anthony Awards (Best Critical / Non-fiction Work), shortlist, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House.2008 Samuel Johnson Prize, winner, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House.1998 Somerset Maugham Award, winner, The Queen of Whale Cay.1997 Whitbread Award (for biography), shortlist, The Queen of Whale Cay.She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize in 2001. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
She also worked as literary editor of The Daily Telegraph. She worked for The Independent and from 1995 to 1996 she wrote and edited obituaries for The Daily Telegraph. Her book on Whicher inspired the 2011–2014 ITV drama series, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, written by Helen Edmundson. Summerscale also wrote the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, "fastest woman on water", which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography. She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, based on a real-life crime committed by Constance Kent and investigated by Jack Whicher, a book described in Literary Review as an altogether "deft 21st-century piece of cultural detection" which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in journalism from Stanford University. Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
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