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Kate studied her BA at Somerville College, Oxford where she was a College Scholar and received the Violet Vaughan Morgan University Scholarship. She then took her MA at Queen Mary, University of London and her DPhil at Oxford, where she received a graduate prize. She also took an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now teaches at Royal Holloway.
Her first book, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton was published in 2006, after five years of research in archives across the world. It was Book of the Week on Radio 4, a Book of the Year in the Times and the Independent and shortlisted for the Marsh Prize for Biography. Kate writes features and comment pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Spectator, Time Out, BBC History Magazine and History Today. She reviews history books for History Today and BBC History Magazine and fiction for the Financial Times and Mslexia.
Her first book, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton was published in 2006, after five years of research in archives across the world. It was Book of the Week on Radio 4, a Book of the Year in the Times and the Independent and shortlisted for the Marsh Prize for Biography. Kate writes features and comment pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Spectator, Time Out, BBC History Magazine and History Today. She reviews history books for History Today and BBC History Magazine and fiction for the Financial Times and Mslexia.
Genres: Historical
New and upcoming books
Series
De Witt Family
1. The Storms of War (2014)
2. The Edge of the Fall (2015)
3. The House of Shadows (2018)
aka Into the Darkness
1. The Storms of War (2014)
2. The Edge of the Fall (2015)
3. The House of Shadows (2018)
aka Into the Darkness
Non fiction show
Kate Williams recommends
The Boleyn Secret (2026)
Alison Weir
"Beautifully written and full of emotion . . . In telling the vivid, moving story of Katherine Carey, Alison Weir takes you to a front seat of the Tudor court, glittering, treacherous, terrifying. Katherine sees her aunt Anne Boleyn executed, serves her cousin, Elizabeth, and is drawn into the Tudor world of secrets. . . . Fascinating."
The House of Wolf (2025)
(House of Aethelwolf, book 1)
Tony Robinson
"The House of Wolf sweeps you up into its wonderful Anglo Saxon world and never lets you go. Sir Tony's debut novel is entirely brilliant, a story and a world, vividly evoked with characters who hold tight to your heart."
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