About this Event
From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes SLEUTH-HOUND, the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes.
Lindsey will be in conversation with acclaimed historian Kate Williams.
Lindsey Fitzharris is a New York Times bestselling author and medical historian who brings the grisly, surprising, and deeply human history of medicine to life. She is the author of The Butchering Art—winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize—and The Facemaker. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and appears regularly on CNN, BBC, C-SPAN, and NPR.
Kate Williams is a NYT bestselling author of six historical books. Her 2014 biography of Josephine Bonaparte, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte, was cited as a primary influence by writer David Scarpa for his screenplay of Napoleon (directed by Ridley Scott). Her biography of Emma Hamilton, England’s Mistress, has been optioned for film adaptation. Her most recent book, Regina: A New History of Women and Power, is an epic history of royal women from Cleopatra to Grace Kelly; upon release in the summer of 2026, it was met with rave reviews.
Event venue & nearby stays
Waterstones, 82 Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
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