elizabeth mcgregor - holly fox - elizabeth cooke
Dear Reader,
'..Cooke's analysis is a masterpiece...fascinating....gripping....'
This year sees the publication on 4 August of my new non-fiction book, The Damnation of John Donellan. Published by Profile Books, it is available online, notably Amazon, Waterstones, WH Smith, Foyles etc. It deals with a death in the eighteenth century that exposed a whirlwind of scandal, lies and seduction....I have LOVED doing it. The characters emerged as a 3-D cast, shaking off two centuries as they stepped from the pages of archives and diaries as living, breathing people full of ambition, passion, prejudice, power, lust and glorious inconsistencies.....what a gift for a writer!
In its first week, the book received a four-star review from www.express.co.uk, an interview in New Scientist, a great review in NewBooks, a superb mention in www.thebookbag.co.uk two 5-star reviews on Amazon, and was voted 'Non-Fiction Book of the Month' by Argosy. A major thrill on August 13th was the review by Iain Finlayson in The Times : 'True life period crime is gruesomely well served by this forensic examination of a death in 1780...Cooke's analysis is a masterpiece.' On August 21st, Kathryn Hughes at the Mail On Sunday wrote : 'A fascinating account..a potent brew of resentment, loyalty and sexual bad behaviour...just as Kate Summerscale did in The Suspicions of Mr.Whicher, Cooke focuses on legal procedure and forensic evidence to gripping effect.'
Exictingly, 'The Damnation of John Donellan' has now also been sold to the USA and will be published there in 2012.
Meanwhile I'm working on a similar mystery from the 19th century; I've also got two plays and two screenplays in the pipeline.
Please click on the 'Novels' section for details of each title; and the biography section for more details about me.
If you have a professional enquiry, I’m represented in London by the brilliant & insightful Laura Longrigg at MBA.
Thanks for your interest.
Liz
