With a career spanning TV, radio, festivals and charity – from running the BBC’s 500 Words competition with DJ Chris Evans to creating the Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award for King’s Trust International – Vicki wound up in 2021 as the founder CEO of The Queen’s Reading Room for HM The Queen, Camilla.

She is the host of The Queen’s Reading Room podcast, listened to in 183 countries worldwide, and is often to be found interviewing celebrated authors, including Ben Macintryre, Kate Mosse, Robert Harris, Ken Follett, Sebastian Faulks, Lee Child, Ann Cleeves and many, many more.

She shares a little thatched countryside cottage with a husband, cats, chickens and bees.

Vicki is writing her debut novel, Parlour Games. 

He needs her to love him for the sake of his country.

She needs him dead for the sake of hers.

It’s 1941 and Britain has decided it’s time to lie to their friends. One woman is tasked with changing the fate of her nation and one man is intent on stopping her. The winner in this great game of deception, might just quietly change the world…

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