There is no justice for families in murder-suicides
Telegraph Magazine, 21 May 2022
Kelly Fitzgibbons and her daughters were murdered by her partner Robert Needham, who then killed himself. Her sister tells their story
The Enduring Mystery of Marilyn
The Sunday Time, Culture, 24 April 2022
Will Marilyn Monroe’s DNA reveal the identity of her father? The screen siren’s biographer asks why are we still so fascinated by Norma Jeane
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The Professional Voyeur
Unbound, 29 August 2019
Is the biography the literary equivalent of dragging out other people’s dirty laundry and spritzing it with pseudo-respectability as Janet Malcolm said? One award-winning biographer explores the value of excavating other people's lives, but also reveals why he has turned to fiction
Highsmith on stage
Sunday Times Culture, 22 July 2018
What was the real relationship between Highsmith and her greatest creation, Tom Ripley?
Would Poirot Have Solved the Skripal poisoning case?
Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2018
Agatha Christie and her fascination with poisons
Solved! The Last Agatha Christie Mystery
Event, June, 2017
Agatha Christie vanished in 1926, feared dead, in a real-life story every bit as dramatic as one of her crime novels. Here, acclaimed biographer Andrew Wilson reopens the case and presents a chilling new theory about her disappearance
The Posh Girl with a Criminal Mind
Tatler, June, 2017
Agatha Christie was raised in genteel luxury and had a vicious and cunning imagination that helped her become the most successful writer the world has ever seen – but only after a mysterious episode of her own
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How Christie Got Cool
Sunday Times Magazine, 7 May, 2017
With TV adaptations and films of her darker work in the pipeline, it seems that the crime writer is finally shedding her cosy image. Yet one puzzle remains unsolved
Book review: 'Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, of That Place'
The Guardian, 3 January, 2017
A recently rediscovered diary of the Antonia Fraser's 1978 trip to the Holy Land with Harold Pinter is wise and witty
Book review: 'Freya'
The Independent, 21 November, 2016
Anthony Quinn is the literary equivalent of Houdini, a novelist who has a particular talent for absenting himself and letting his characters come to life
Book review: 'A Ghost's Story'
The Independent, 2 December, 2015
A playful paean to the life of celebrity medium Katie King. Instead of using the forensic techniques of a biographer, Lorna Gibb has opted for a more fictional telling of this strange tale
Book review: 'A Woman on the Edge of Time'
The Independent, 12 November, 2015
Voyage of discovery for a son 40 years on: the quest for truth over his mother's suicide was reawakened by the tragic loss of Jeremy Gavron's brother
Book review: 'Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father'
The Independent, 20 August, 2015
Adam Mars-Jones' humorous and heartbreaking story of growing up in the shadow of a great man
The fairest of them all...
Tatler, June, 2015
Why we’ll never get bored of looking at Audrey Hepburn