The Peepshow: The thrilling new page-turner from Britain’s top-selling true crime writer
Kate Summerscale
Oct 2024 · Bloomsbury GB Audio · Narrated by Nicola Walker
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Bloomsbury presents The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale, read by Nicola Walker.
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER
WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman
'I loved it' Richard Osman
'Shattering' Val McDermid
'Gripping' Sarah Waters
In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio.
As a series of further horrors are discovered, the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place.
In this riveting tale of violence, misogyny and tabloid frenzy, Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house - and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century's most notorious crimes.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER
WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman
'I loved it' Richard Osman
'Shattering' Val McDermid
'Gripping' Sarah Waters
In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio.
As a series of further horrors are discovered, the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place.
In this riveting tale of violence, misogyny and tabloid frenzy, Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house - and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century's most notorious crimes.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
Bloomsbury presents The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale, read by Nicola Walker.
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER
WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman
'I loved...
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About the author
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was adapted into a major ITV drama. Her other books include The Haunting of Alma Fielding, The Wicked Boy, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace and The Queen of Whale Cay (inspired by an obituary she wrote for the Daily Telegraph). She has judged several literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, and in 2010 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was adapted into a major ITV drama. Her other books include The Hau...
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