Dr Brooke Magnanti - book launch & whisky tasting

Come and join us for our first ever event at MacGregor's bar! Join Author Brooke Magnanti for the launch of her new book. Brooke, probably most famous as Belle DeJour, will be doing some readings, having a chat and a dram for a VERY select audience. There are only 30 tickets available 

We will probably have a tune afterwards and Brooke might even get her banjo out!

Bestselling author of Secret Diary of a Call Girl

and The Turning Tide

When you try to bury the past, the past will bury you…

Miri Goldstein was a call girl with connections to powerful men. Now that she's dead, some can breathe more easily. But the grave is not good at keeping secrets. As media dig into Miri’s past, her old friend Denise worries her own will rise to the surface.

Meanwhile in Scotland, controversial forensic pathologist Harriet Hitchin is put in a bind when the body turns up on her patch. Police think they have their killer but Harriet is certain they made a mistake. If she’s wrong, it will end her career. If she’s right it could cost her life.

The case will play games with all who come near and force them to ask – how many of us are living a lie?

With a taut pace and a twisted sense of humour, You Don’t Know Me is a sexy thriller from someone who knows exactly what it means to live a double life.

‘A great page turner … it doesn’t just pass the Bechdel test – it smashes it apart.’ The Queerness

‘Hugely impressive … Brooke writes the kind of women we want to see in crime fiction.’ Russel McLean

Praise for The Turning Tide, published in 2016

"Magnanti's writing is lively and entertaining. When her victims are laid out on that slab, her unspeakably detailed descriptions are good enough to put the wind up Patricia Cornwell." The Sunday Times

“This is a clever, satirical thriller.” The Daily Express

About the Author

Brooke Magnanti, one of Observer’s “Faces of 2009” and Guardian's “Best British Weblog 2003,” is a scientist and author. She is writer of the bestselling Belle de Jour series of books, which were adapted into the hit ITV show "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" starring Billie Piper. She is also the writer of The Sex Myth.

Brooke has been featured by more than 100 media outlets including the Sunday Times, Independent, New Scientist, Grazia, The Scotsman, HardTalk, Sky News, This Week and Newsnight. She is a columnist for the Telegraph's Wonder Women, former science editor of Cliterati, and has contributed pieces to the Guardian, Big Issue, and Town. Brooke was featured in an episode of Stephen Fry's Planet Word and is a popular public speaker on the themes of biometric and forensic science, sexualisation and popular culture, and internet anonymity and identity.

Brooke was born in west central Florida in 1975. She was a National Merit Scholar and received a B.Sc. from Florida State University in 1996, where she studied in the Anthropology and Mathematics departments. She later studied for a master's in Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Sheffield in England, and earned a Ph.D. in the Forensic Pathology department there, specialising in human decomposition and postmortem identification. She has worked in forensic science, epidemiology, chemoinformatics and cancer research. Brooke currently lives in rural NW Scotland with her husband.

Trade paperback release date:

13 July 2017

For Press Enquiries and ARCs Contact

Belle_press@hushmail.com