Alexandra Heminsley

Alexandra Heminsley is an author of both fiction and non fiction, including bestselling memoir RUNNING LIKE A GIRL and debut novel UNDER THE SAME STARS.

She is also an experienced co-writer, whose top ten Sunday Times bestsellers include Judy Murray’s William Hill Sports Book of the Year-nominated KNOWING THE SCORE and Sara Davies’ WE CAN ALL MAKE IT.

Her latest novel THE QUEUE is published in August 2023 and tells the story of three very different people who find themselves queuing together along the South Bank on Saturday 17th September 2022...

After working in publishing, she became a freelance journalist, broadcaster and author in 2004. She was the books editor at Elle for eight years, and spent ten years at BBC Radio 2’s Claudia Winkleman Arts Show. She regularly appears at literary festivals as both co-host and guest, and was a judge for 2011’s Costa Novel of the Year Award.

She wrote the introduction for the recent reissue of Jackie Collins' Lovers & Gamblers, which is currently being adapted for Netflix.