Books
Lucy Moore is the author of nine mostly biographical books, ‘a historian with a novelist’s relish for human foibles’ according to the Sunday Times.
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Atlantic Books - 2022
ONE OF WATERSTONE’S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022
‘The… pleasure of [Moore’s] book lies in its celebration of a dozen, colourful, unconventional, free-thinking lives’ Guardian
A ‘joyfully narrated history of a scientific field that… opens our mind to the rich kaleidoscope of human experience’ Literary Review
‘In this skilful summary of the early years of anthropology… Moore reveals a veritable tangle of turf wars, power scrambles and sexual bad behaviour. And that is before anyone has even packed up their mosquito net and set off for the other side of the world.’ Sunday Times
Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book
Atlantic Books - 2017
‘An enchanting, idiosyncratic Tardis of a book’ Telegraph
‘Fascinating’ The Times
‘Compelling’ TLS
Nijinsky: A Life
Profile - 2013
‘Captivating’ Financial Times
‘Superb’ Sunday Times
‘Mesmerising’ Telegraph
‘Highly intelligent, lucidly presented and consistently absorbing – a clear and objective portrait of a tragically wounded genius’ Literary Review
Anything Goes
Atlantic Books - 2008
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘Mesmerising’ Evening Standard
‘A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelist’s relish for human foibles.’ Sunday Times
‘Absolutely fizzing… Moore has the most wonderful eye for detail and a brilliant sense of human character. The most entertaining work of history you are likely to read in a long time.’ A.N. Wilson
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
Harper Press - 2006
‘Superb’ Literary Review
‘Extremely elegant and thought-provoking’ Telegraph
‘Exceptionally good’ Spectator
‘Marvellous’ New York Times
‘Moore’s criss-crossing narratives coalesce into superbly tense life’ Observer
‘[Moore has] that rare gift of making a work both scholarly and as readable as a thriller’ Julian Fellowes
Maharanis
Viking - 2004
‘Fascinating, engrossing, absorbingly intelligent and thoughtful’ Sunday Times
‘Enthralling’ Telegraph
‘Beautifully told’ Literary Review
‘Brilliant and romantic’ Mail on Sunday
Amphibious Thing
Viking - 2000
‘A highly intelligent, supremely enjoyable biographical study of the life and times of a celebrated rake and a brilliant picture of eighteenth-century life’ Observer
Con Men and Cutpurses
Allen Lane - 2000
‘Did I enjoy this book? Guilty as charged.’ Independent
The Thieves’ Opera
Viking - 1997
‘Fascinating… a treasure trove of intriguing information’ Daily Mail