Kate Morgan
This Friday August 23rd 7pm at Burway Books – Entry Free
Kate Morgan is a writer and former solicitor. Kate worked as a senior in-house lawyer in the water industry for most of her legal career. Long fascinated with the darker side of the law, her writing focuses on British legal history and the stories behind the important cases that have shaped the law over the centuries.
Kate is a customer here and pops in to browse and sign her books.
Murder: The Biography
Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder. The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There’s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder.
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – a Hidden History
‘A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.’ So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words intended ironically in a debate about a rise in attacks on women, summed up the prevailing attitude of the day, in which violence against women was waved away as a part and parcel of modern living, a chilling seam of misogyny that had polluted both parliament and the law. But were things about to change? In this vivid and essential work of historical non-fiction, Kate Morgan explores the legal campaigns, test cases and individual injustices of the Victorian and Edwardian eras which fundamentally re-shaped the status of women under British law.
