Kate Colquhoun

Fellow at London College of Fashion, 2010-13

Kate Colquhoun was born in Ireland in 1964. Her first book A Thing in Disguise: the Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton (4th Estate, 2003) was short-listed for the Duff Cooper Prize, nominated for the Samuel Johnson Award and was a Radio 4 Book of the Week. Other books include Taste, the History of Britain Through its Cooking (Bloomsbury, 2007) and The Thrifty Cookbook, 476 Ways to Eat Well with Leftovers (Bloomsbury, 2009). Her next book, Thomas Briggs' Hat, is about the first murder on a British train and the birth of public fear; it will be published by LittleBrown in 2011. Kate reviews and writes widely for the national dailies, particularly The Times and Daily Telegraph. She helped make Channel 4's Dispatches The Truth about Food and appears often on radio and TV. She is married to literary agent David Miller and lives in west London. They have two young sons.