Wendy Moore - Author and freelance writer

Wedlock: the no 1 bestseller and TV Book Club choice!

 

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David Cronenberg to adapt 'Knifeman' for TV

My next book: Author unveils the story of real Prof Higgins and Eliza Doolittle 

Should the Irish Giant be buried at sea? It's time to grant Charles Byrne's dying wish.

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Wedlock

Wedlock is published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and in the US by Crown.  The book tells the remarkable true story of the extraordinary marriage between Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore, and Andrew Robinson Stoney, a debt-ridden Irish fortune-hunter, while also illuminating the history of marriage itself.

'Wedlock' was a Channel 4 TV book club choice in 2010.

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 '...for anyone who enjoyed The Suspicions of Mr Whicher this is a must read.' -Amazon review

Wedlock chosen as a book of the year by Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley

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'... Moore (is) mistress of suspense' ... Observer

'A gripping story, brilliantly told' ... Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

'spectacular ... compulsively readable' ... Washington Post

'mesmerising' ... Financial Times

'This splendid book, well researched and richly detailed, is as gripping as a novel' ... Daily Telegraph

'An extraordinary story of class, culture, sexism and prejudice' ... The Times

'Wedlock is the best biography I have read in a long time' ... Daily Mail

'Moore has meticulously constructed an ever more compelling tale’ ... The Guardian

'heart-poundingly powerful' ... Saga

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The Knife Man:  Blood, Body-snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery

The Knife Man is published in the UK by Bantam, in the US by Broadway and in Japan by Kawade. It tells the story of John Hunter, the extraordinary 18th-century surgeon. Known as the father of modern surgery, Hunter also advanced understanding of biology and anticipated the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin. He provided inspiration for Dr Jekyll and Dr Dolittle. But the extremes to which he went raise question marks then as now.

                                                                 
Winner of the Medical Journalists’ Association Consumer Book Award 2005

Winner of the MJA Open Book Award 2005

Shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award 2007

Highly commended in the BMA's Medical Book Competition 2005

Reviews

'Medicine needs more John Hunters, and biography needs more Wendy Moores.’

– New York Times
‘Excellent … Wendy Moore has helped to pay the debt we all owe to this short-tempered dyslexic healer’

– Sunday Telegraph

 ‘A stunning, gruesomely compelling biography … Brilliant’

- Alison Weir, author and historian 
‘I don’t think I’ve ever read a biography that I’ve enjoyed quite as much as this one … It’s a winner all round – and now I’ve finished it, I’m going to start all over again.’

- Claire Rayner, writer, broadcaster and health adviser