Matilda Emily Mary "Tilly" Bagshawe[1][2] (born 12 June 1973) is a British freelance journalist and author. She is best known for her books in the vein of best-selling American author Sidney Sheldon, notably Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game and Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness.

Life and work

Born on 12 June 1973 in Lambeth Hospital, London,[3] Bagshawe is one of three daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs).[4] Her father is from the Bagshawe family of Roman Catholic gentry. They originally hailed from Wormhill Hall, near Buxton, Derbyshire, and Oakes-in-Norton, near Sheffield.[5][6] Her great-grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists, Clarkson Stanfield,[7] and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Frideswide, was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[8] Her older sister is Louise Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister Alice and a brother, James.[9]

She was educated at Woldingham School, Surrey, and while there, she became pregnant. At seventeen, she was a single mother of a daughter, Persephone (Sefi), but she finished her studies and at the age of eighteen, she went up to St John's College, Cambridge with her ten-month-old daughter in tow.^{[citation needed]}

Married to Robin Nydes, a US businessman, she lives between homes in London and Los Angeles, with three children. Now a freelance journalist and novelist, Bagshawe is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and other British publications.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Novels

• Adored (2005/Jul) (ISBN 0-446-57688-3).
• Showdown (2006).
• Do Not Disturb (2008).
• Flawless (2009).
• Scandalous (2010).
• Fame (2011)
• Temptation (2012)
• The Inheritance (2014)
• The Show (2015)
• The Bachelor (2016)
• Friends and Rivals

Sidney Sheldon series

• Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game (2009/Aug).
• Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness (2010/Jun).
• Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark (2012)
• Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory (2013)
• Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow (2014/Sep)
• Sidney Sheldon's Reckless (2015)
• Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow (2018)
• Sidney Sheldon's The Phoenix (2019)

M. B. Shaw novels

• Murder at the Mill (2017) [10]

References