Contact Me
I welcome hearing from readers, not just with their queries about my work, but also if they wish to share information they might have on subjects that interest me.
If you have questions about my books, I’d love to hear from you:
For all other enquiries contact my agent:
Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
Drury House
34-43 Russell Street
London WC2B 5HA
Tel: +44 (0)207 7344 1000
Publicist for Simon & Schuster In Search of Mary Seacole:
Head of Publicity
Sabah.Khan@simonandschuster.co.uk
07756 220 114
US Publicist for all St Martin’s Press editions of my books & broadcast media in the USA:
Publicity Manager
Kathryn.Hough@stmartins.com
646 307 5151
Public Speaking & Literary Festivals
I have wide-ranging experience in public speaking, seminars and literary festivals, and as a Historian/Russianist can offer talks on a variety of subjects:
Such an Unsafe Throne: Queen Victoria, Russia and the Romanovs
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Capturing the Light: Louis Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography
Caught in the Revolution: Foreign Eye Witnesses of Petrograd in 1917
Russian Revolutionaries in London: Herzen, Bakunin, Lenin and the Émigré Community
Lenin in Exile 1900-1917, with a Particular Emphasis on his time in London, Poland and Finland
Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street and the Victorian Cosmetics Trade
The Search for a Subject: New Ways of Looking at Old Stories. My Approach to Writing History
The Death of Prince Albert and his Legacy
Mary Seacole and the Discovery of Her Lost Portrait
The Murder of the Romanovs at Ekaterinburg
No Place for Ladies: the Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War
For talks, public speaking and literature festivals contact:
Bea Hartshorn
bhartshorn@pfd.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)207 344 1035
Radio & Television Talking Heads and Historical Consultancy
Queen Victoria’s Tragic Family for Channel 5 (2018)
Historical consultant on the first two series of ITV/PBS TV’s drama, Victoria (2015-2017)
Two documentaries about the Russian Revolution, one for Netflix and the other for BBC2 (2017)
ITV documentary In the Shadow of Mary Seacole (2016)
The Last Days of Rasputin for Channel 5 (2015)
Key contributor and historical consultant for BBC2’s two-part documentary Russia’s Lost Princesses (2014)
Talking head on Victoria & Albert for two 3-part documentary series about the Queen: Queen Victoria’s Children for BBC2 (2013)
Discussion about Queen Victoria with Lucy Worsley: Fit to Rule and Tales from the Royal Bedchamber (2013)
Romanov expert in two National Geographic Mystery Files documentaries about the murder of the imperial family and Rasputin (2010)
Mary Seacole, The Real Angel of the Crimea (2005) for which I was also historical consultant.
Segment about Mary Seacole for BBC1’s The One Show
Interviews for a range of commercial stations in the UK, Canada, Australia and the USA.
For TV, radio & media presenting contact:
Tris Payne at PFD
tpayne@pfd.co.uk
Tel: + 44 (0)207 344 1011