Katherine Webb

Katherine Webb was born in Kent in 1977 and grew up in rural Hampshire. She was educated at a local comprehensive school and sixth form college, before reading History at Durham University. A childhood fascination with ruined castles and the secrets of the past has carried forward into her fiction, which incorporates historical story lines and explores how past events can reverberate in the present.

Since graduating from Durham in 1998, Katherine has had various day jobs – from kiln operator in a pottery, to waitress, librarian and seller of fairy costumes. In recent years she has worked in service as a housekeeper for high status families; in formal households where age-old structures of class behaviour are alive and well, uniforms are worn and staff are expected to be both invisible and omnipresent; and (currently) in pleasantly relaxed households with more up-to-date attitudes.

After a nomadic period in her twenties, having lived in London and Venice, Katherine has now settled in a cottage in the countryside near Newbury, Berkshire. DIY is more of a necessity than a hobby, and her other interests include cookery, running and horse riding.

The Legacy is Katherine’s seventh completed novel, and the first to be published. Unusually, The Legacy came to Orion’s notice, not through a literary agent, (Katherine didn’t have one at the time) but through the peer-review website, YouWriteOn.com. The Legacy won YouWriteOn.com’s Novel of the Year Award 2009, garnering huge support from other aspiring writers on the site. Orion has signed Katherine on a two book deal, launching The Legacy as a major debut in 2010.

If you like Katherine Webb you might also like to read books by Barbara Erskine, Kate Mosse and Kate Morton

The Unseen Katherine Webb December 2011 Book of the Month. One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011. A mix of the occult, murder and love – dual time; 1911 and 2010. It is sparked... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/11/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Unseen Katherine Webb One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011. A mix of the occult, murder and love – dual time; 1911 and 2010. It is sparked off by the discovery of the body of a First World War soldier... Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)

The Legacy Katherine Webb Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer of the Year 2010. July 2010 Debut of the Month. Voted the public's favourite TV Book Club Summer Read 2010. Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)