Imogen Robertson is a British director in different media, a

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Biography

She was born and grew up in

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, attending a local

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and a boys' public school in the

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. She studied

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at the

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. Her directorial work includes documentaries, TV films, children's television (e.g. ''

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'' for the

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), radio and museum voiceovers. She is best-known for her writing. She received a commendation in the National Poetry Competition in 2005. In 2007, she won the '' Daily Telegraphs 'First thousand words of a novel competition', and this became the opening of her debut work, ''Instruments of Darkness''. Most of her novels are set in the late 18th century and feature the tenacious detective pairing of Mrs. Harriet Westerman, a dynamic Sussex landowner, and her neighbour Gabriel Crowther, an anatomist of quiet renown hiding a baronial past. Robertson has been a candidate for the

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three times, for ''Circle of Shadows'', ''Island of Bones'' and ''Theft of Life''. She has co-written three novels: she wrote ''King of Kings'' with

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; she collaborated with US screenwriter Darby Kealey (a writer for '' Patriot'') under the pseudonym 'Imogen Kealey' for ''Liberation'', a

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thriller about

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and

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operative

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, which is currently in movie production with

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as the lead character; she wrote another thriller, ''The House'', with former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson. She lives in London with her husband.

Published works

* ''Instruments of Darkness'' (2009) * ''Anatomy of Murder'' (2010) * ''Island of Bones'' (2011) * ''Circle of Shadows'' (2012) * ''The Paris Winter'' (2013) * ''Theft of Life'' (2014) * ''King of Kings'' [with

] (2019) * ''Liberation'' [with Darby Kealey as 'Imogen Kealey'] (2020) * ''The House'' [with Tom Watson] (2020)

References

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