Historical novelist Kate Furnival shares her five favourite books with Judith Spelman
Kate Furnivall has written nine books that are packed with colourful incidents. Her first book, The Russian Concubine, is based on the life of her mother, a refugee from the Russian revolution.
After university where she studied English, Kate joined a non-fiction publisher and then went on to work in advertising where she met her future husband, a crime writer who writes under the name of Neville Steed.