Sonia Purnell

Sonia Purnell is a bestselling and prize-winning author of Kingmaker, A Woman of No Importance, Clementine, and Just Boris who has worked as a journalist at The Economist, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Kingmaker has been hailed as a Book of the Year by no fewer than fifteen media outlets. A Woman of No Importance was a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography, and chosen as “Best Book Of The Year” by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, and more. Her book Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill (published as First Lady in the UK) was chosen as a book of the year by The Telegraph and The Independent, and was a finalist for the Plutarch Award. Her first book, Just Boris, was longlisted for the Orwell prize. Her books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into almost thirty languages.