KL Literature Festival September 2024

KL Literature Festival September 2024

Friday 27 September at 7.30pm – Genre – What’s It All About? Louise Doughty, Sara May, Bridget Walsh and Rachel Hore All performances at King’s Lynn Town Hall Book here. £15 per ticket Book all 6 sessions for the special price of £51 (£8.50 per session)...
Reading & Conversation with Bridget Walsh

Reading & Conversation with Bridget Walsh

Thursday 16th May 2024 at 7pm Diss Publishing Bookshop, 40 Mere Street Diss. Bridget Walsh will talk about her work in historical crime fiction. The Tumbling Girl and Its sequel, The Innocents, take us back to the music halls of Victorian London and Victorian crime...
Bloody Scotland

Bloody Scotland

I’ll be appearing at Bloody Scotland as part of ‘Crime in the Spotlight’ on Saturday 16th September 2023 at 6pm, just before Mark Billingham and Antti Toumainen. Bloody Scotland website
Some Influences

Some Influences

The protagonist of my debut novel The Tumbling Girl is Minnie Ward, an intrepid and outspoken writer for a music hall in Victorian London. She has a slightly complicated backstory about her name, but the truth is she was named after my Aunty Minnie. Sadly no longer...
A quartet of villainous Victorian women

A quartet of villainous Victorian women

During my PhD research into Victorian domestic murder I became particularly interested in cases featuring women murderers, not least because of the huge amount of press attention they received. These four women, whether guilty or innocent — I’ll leave you to decide...