Imogen Robertson

Imogen Robertson is a British author that hails from Darlington. She is best known for the Crowther & Westerman series of novels set in Georgian Era England. Imogen Robertson spent most of her childhood in Darlington, before she left as a teen to study German and Russian at Cambridge. She lives in London. Before her big break into the writing of historical thrillers, she worked as a director for radio, TV, and film. In 2007, she was one of the five winners of the First 1000 words Daily Telegraphs Novel in a Year Competition. Her 1000 word draft is what would later become her highly popular debut, Instruments of Darkness. She has always been interested in writing and has great interest in poetry. As a published poet, the shelves of her house are full of slim irregularly shaped volumes of poetry that she reads almost religiously. In 2005, she wrote a poem about the danger of suicide bombers on the London Underground that was feted by the 2005 National Poetry Competition. Imogen is peculiar in that she is a novelist and a poet, which is perhaps a result of her education. Imogen grew up in Darlington where she attended the local comprehensive school before she moved to a boy’s public school that took in girls in the sixth form. It was a big culture shock intermingling with the privileged girls in the school, but it molded her thinking, making her an author that can write from different perspectives. The four novels in the Crowther and Westerman series have been translated into more than 10 languages around the globe and won Robertson several awards. Her most significant achievement was making the shortlist for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award on two occasions. Her husband is a freelance cheesemonger.