Kate Lord Brown
Kate Lord Brown graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art and KLC Design School. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and gained a MA in creative writing from the Manchester Writing School, MMU. Kate lives in Somerset with her family where she is researching and writing her next book.
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Kate Lord Brown is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Lisa Highton. For all enquiries contact lisa@jennybrownassociates.com
Books by Kate
The Silver Thread
Simon & Schuster, 2026
Three cities. Two women. A hundred years.
London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japan is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to Tokyo to source silks and inspiration, little does she know it will be the start of an unforgettable love story.
Paris, 1985. Mira, a recently qualified art curator, is hired to catalogue the contents of an apartment which has been closed for decades. As she works through the treasures it reveals, she longs to discover what happened to famed designer Isobel Bright – and why her apartment has been locked for so many years…
Utterly immersive, Essie Fox
The Golden Hour
Simon & Schuster, 2025
The Golden Hour is a 20th century historical novel set over two timelines. In 1970s’ Beirut Lucie Fitzgerald’s mother is dying and, on her deathbed, tells Lucie the story of her childhood best friend Juno, their life in 1930s’ Cairo and Juno’s search for Nefertiti’s tomb. A transporting and moving story of a lost generation transformed by war and a study of great love and sacrifice in all its forms. Kate Lord Brown sweeps the reader away into a world that is both familiar and unknown, and tells the story of a mother and daughter, of great love, and of great loss.
An epic story packed with secrets, Rachel Hore
Previously published
The House of Dreams Inspired by the real-life heroism of Varian Fry in WW2 France and the volunteers who risked their lives to help save legendary figures like Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt, and Max Ernst.
The Perfume Garden A sumptuous story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War.
The Beauty Chorus (2012) A story of romance, wartime glamour and adventure in the skies, inspired by the brave young women who flew fighter planes across Britain in World War Two.
