Welcome. I'm a fiction writer with a particular interest in history. I studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History at the University of East Anglia ...

The fantastic Imogen Hermes Gowar has been longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.

Imogen lives, works, and walks around south-east London – an area whose history she takes a keen interest in – and her first novel, The Mermaid & Mrs Hancock, ...

Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, general historical messing about. · 280 posts · 1,860 followers · 543 following ...

Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted Women's Prize, winner Betty Trask. ACE funded to write about Lady Eleanor ...

Imogen Hermes Gowar has 5 books on Goodreads with 107687 ratings. Imogen Hermes Gowar's most popular book is The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock.

Imogen Hermes Gowar is a British author. She published her debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of ...

One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah's trading vessels ...

Imogen Hermes Gowar studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History at UEA's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts before going on to work in museums.

Gowar says she set the book in the late 18th century because the era hasn't been written about as much as the Regency and Victorian years that followed. And ...