Tilly Bagshawe

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Tilly Bagshawe
BornMatilda Emily Mary Bagshawe
(1973-06-12) 12 June 1973 (age 50)
Chick-lit
SpouseRobin Nydes
Children3
RelativesLouise Mensch (sister)
Website
tillybagshawe.com

Matilda Emily Mary "Tilly" Bagshawe[1][2] (born 12 June 1973) is a British freelance journalist and author. She is best known for her books in the vein of best-selling American author Sidney Sheldon, notably Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game and Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness.

Life and work

Born on 12 June 1973 in

Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Frideswide, was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[8] Her older sister is Louise Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister and a brother.[9]

She was educated at Woldingham School, Surrey, and while there, she became pregnant. At seventeen, she was a single mother of a daughter, but she finished her studies and at the age of eighteen, she went up to St John's College, Cambridge, with her ten-month-old daughter in tow.[citation needed]

Married to Robin Nydes, a US businessman, she lives between homes in London and Los Angeles, with three children. Now a freelance journalist and novelist, Bagshawe is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and other British publications.[citation needed]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Adored (2005/Jul) ().
  • Showdown (2006).
  • Do Not Disturb (2008).
  • Flawless (2009).
  • Scandalous (2010).
  • Fame (2011)
  • Temptation (2012)
  • The Inheritance (2014)
  • The Show (2015)
  • The Bachelor (2016)
  • Friends and Rivals

Sidney Sheldon series

M. B. Shaw novels

  • Murder at the Mill (2017) [10]

References

  1. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 Supplement (up to 31 December 1992), Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 5
  2. ^ "Matilda Emily Mary BAGSHAWE-NYDES - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Births". The Times. 13 June 1973. p. 1.
  4. ^ "Marriages". The Times. 23 September 1969. p. 12.
  5. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. 1, Peter Townend, 1965, Bagshawe of Wormhill and Oakes-in-Norton pedigree
  6. ^ "The Landed Gentry of Britain". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  7. ^ David Cordingly (1996), Jane Turner (ed.), "Stanfield, Clarkson" Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers
  8. ^ The Catholic Who's Who and yearbook, Volume 33, 1940, p. 432
  9. ^ Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times. London.
  10. ^ "Bagshawe to write pen-name 'cosy crime' for Trapeze". The Bookseller.