Katherine Parkinson is the author of the international bestseller The Black Widow. Her second novel, The Man Who Loved Islands, won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2013. She has written for newspapers and magazines in the UK, Australia, and the US. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times (London), The Sunday Times (London), and Vanity Fair
She is a contributing writer at GQ in America and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.
I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.Katherine Parkinson
When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.Katherine Parkinson
