Elizabeth Buchan

Biography

Elizabeth Buchan began her career as a blurb writer at Penguin Books after graduating from the University of Kent with a double degree in English and History. She moved on to become a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full-time. Her novels include the award-winning Consider the Lily and the international bestseller, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, which was made into a CBS Primetime Drama. Other novels include I Can’t Begin to Tell You, a story of SOE agents and resistance in wartime Denmark,  The New Mrs Clifton,The Museum of Broken PromisesTwo Women in Rome and her latest, Bonjour, Sophie, which will be published in April 2024.

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Elizabeth Buchan’s short stories are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has reviewed for The Times, the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot literary prizes. She has been a judge for the Whitbread First Novel Award and for the 2014 Costa Novel Award. She is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival.

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Books

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A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea
A Burning Sea

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Two Women in Rome, by Elizabeth Buchan

Two Women in Rome, by Elizabeth Buchan

We start during the 1970s, as the independent minded Nina finds herself falling for a man who she knows she cannot have a life with. Leo has his own familial demons to contend with, whilst Nina has secrets of which Leo can never be party to. Nina’s life is snatched away from her but nobody ...
Nancy Wake: SOE Agent

Nancy Wake: SOE Agent

At the outbreak of the Second World War, the charismatic and hugely attractive Nancy Wake was an Australian living with her French businessman husband in Marseilles. Immediately, she plunged into resistance work which resulted in her having to flee from France, leaving her husband behind. He ...

Author Interview

Elizabeth Buchan
You’ve written about the major events of the 20th century, such as WW2 and the Cold War – the attraction of the period of history, or do go for character and plot first?They are closely allied! However, it wasn’t until I was a parent myself that I began to reflect on the post-war Second World War and the decades of the Cold War -   to which I never gave ...

Short Stories

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What Remains

What Remains

The Princess of Thebes was wheeled on a gurney into the laboratory.Peta Raven observed the porters’ careful progression through the doorway and up to the table. No corpse should be, or ever was, treated negligently in this place but custody of the princess invoked an especial duty-of-care ...