Patrick Marnham is a journalist, biographer and screenwriter. His biographies have covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon (The Man Who Wasn’t There, winner of the Marsh Biography Award), Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967, was published by Vintage Books in October 2017. His latest book War in the Shadows was published in 2020 by Oneworld.