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Jessie Childs is an award-winning author and historian. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and her second, God’s Traitors, won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2015. It was also longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and selected as a Book of the Year in the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer and BBC History Magazine.
Jessie’s latest book The Siege of Loyalty House tells the story of the heroic resistance of a royalist mansion in the English Civil War. It is getting rave reviews and has been hailed by Simon Schama as ‘extraordinary, thrilling, immersive… at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power’.
Jessie frequently appears on radio (Front Row, Start the Week etc.) and TV, including the RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS), and BBC Four’s two recent series on Charles I: Downfall of a King and Killing a King.
She has written and reviewed for many publications, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, Literary Review, TLS and LRB. She was one of the judges of the 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize and the 2021 HWA Non-Fiction Crown, and is on the editorial advisory board of History Today.
She lives with her husband and two daughters in Hammersmith, not far from a brewery, a distillery and the River Thames.
Website: www.jessiechilds.co.uk
Twitter: @childs_jessie
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