Laura Beatty is the author of Pollard, a novel that won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry which contained the first publication of correspondence between Lillie and her lover Arthur Jones, and the second about Anne Boleyn.
A novel of masterly understatement * Spectator, on DARKLING * Beatty makes you feel the layers of history existing alongside the present, so that the stories blend seamlessly... Beautifully written * The Times, on DARKLING * Enchanting...Beatty is a writer of extraordinary power...alive to every nuance of behaviour * Literary Review, on POLLARD * A novel that heralds an exceptional talent * Guardian, on POLLARD * A fierce and wonderful book ... This is just the sort of generous, provocative novel the Booker judges should cherish... Bewitching * Olivia Laing, Observer, on POLLARD *