Square Haunting (2020) is a group biography of five women writers — H. D., Dorothy L. Sayers, Eileen Power, Jane Ellen Harrison and Virginia Woolf — who lived in Mecklenburgh Square, in London’s Bloomsbury, between the two world wars. It was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. I wrote about the writing process here.

Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife (2025)is a biography exploring Stein’s self-mythologising, her determination to achieve renown for her avant-garde writing, and her partner Alice B. Toklas’s fraught stewardship of Stein’s posthumous legacy. I wrote about my discovery of previously unseen interviews Toklas conducted in the 1950s, which shed new light on the origins of Stein’s radical writing and of their storied relationship, here. It was named a top 10 book of the year by the Washington Post, Airmail and Artforum, won the 2026 BIO Plutarch Award (for the best biography of 2025), and was shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award.