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 has written six novels including The Perfume Garden which was shortlisted for UK Romantic Novel of the Year. Kate’s other novels, including The Beauty Chorus and The House of Dreams, are twentieth century historical fiction with heart and she is always looking for those gems of forgotten history which make you think ‘why doesn’t everyone know about this …?’ Her books have been translated into numerous languages and have been top ten bestsellers in the US/Canada, UK, Germany, Norway and Spain. Kate lives in Somerset with her family.
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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 Golden Hour
Simon & Schuster, April 2025
Pre-empted by Simon & Schuster in a two-book deal, The Golden Hour (publishing April 2025) 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 – a perfect blend of the epic and the intimate. 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. Her next novel The Floating World (S&S April 2026) is an East/West story set over 100 years between London Paris and Tokyo.
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.
