Imogen Robertson

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Imogen Robertson is a director in different media, a poet and novelist.

Biography

She was born and grew up in Darlington, England, attending a local comprehensive and a boys' public school in the sixth form. She studied Russian and German at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Her directorial work includes documentaries, TV films, children's television (e.g. Numberjacks for the BBC), radio and museum voiceovers.[2][3][4][5][1]

She is best-known for her writing. She received a commendation in the National Poetry Competition in 2005. In 2007, she won the Daily Telegraph's 'First thousand words of a novel competition', and this became the opening of her debut work, Instruments of Darkness.[1] Most of her novels are set in the late 18th century and feature the tenacious detective pairing of Mrs. Harriet Westerman, a dynamic Sussex landowner, and her neighbour Gabriel Crowther, an anatomist of quiet renown hiding a baronial past. Robertson has been a candidate for the CWA Historical Dagger three times, for Circle of Shadows, Island of Bones and Theft of Life.[6][7][8] She has co-written three novels: she wrote King of Kings with Wilbur Smith;[9] she collaborated with US screenwriter Darby Kealey (a writer for Patriot) under the pseudonym 'Imogen Kealey' for Liberation, a World War II thriller about French resistance and SOE operative Nancy Wake, which is currently in movie production with Anne Hathaway as the lead character.;[10][11] she wrote another thriller, The House, with former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson.[12][13]

She lives in London with her husband.[1]

Published works

  • Instruments of Darkness (2009)
  • Anatomy of Murder (2010)
  • Island of Bones (2011)
  • Circle of Shadows (2012)
  • The Paris Winter (2013)
  • Theft of Life (2014)
  • King of Kings [with Wilbur Smith] (2019)
  • Liberation [with Darby Kealy as 'Imogen Kealey'](2020)
  • The House [with Tom Watson] (2020)

References

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