Sarah WISE
Sarah's debut book, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London (Jonathan Cape), was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and won the Crime Writers' Association 2005 Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. In 2006 she was a major contributor to Iain Sinclair's compendium, London: City of Disappearances. Her follow-up, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of A Victorian Slum, was published in June 2008 by the Bodley Head.
She has lived in London since the age of 14, currently lives in central London and reviews books for the Daily Telegraph and The Literary Review.