Press

HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY

‘The central character of Susan Charlewood looms large in this impressive debut’ (review by Margery Hookings) https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/a-book-of-secrets/

Sussex Life magazine

‘Worthing-based author Kate Morrison challenges our assumptions about people of colour in Tudor Britain’ https://www.sussexlife.co.uk/people/kate-morrison-author-novel-1-6369408

The demented goddess

‘”It’s her gaze on him”‘: Kate Morrison on writing a Black historical heroine’ https://www.thedementedgoddess.com/its-her-gaze-on-him-kate-morrison-on-writing-a-black-historical-heroine/

SEVEN WRITERS BLOG

Path to publication: https://woolf.biz/kate-morrison

Bookoxygen

‘A masterly and believable fictional creation’ – novelist Rachel Hore: http://bookoxygen.com/?p=8240

BLACK AFRICANS in renaissance europe

‘A wholly plausible, readable work of fiction based on fact – a page-turner’ – art historian Michael Ohajuru: https://veronese1515.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-book-of-secrets-by-kate-morrison.html

THE GUARDIAN

‘We’re still living with slavery’ – article on modern slave narratives by Colin Grant https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/23/colin-grant-slavery-novels