Mickey Mayhew

Lifelong Londoner MICKEY MAYHEW has a PhD concerning the online cult surrounding the ‘tragic’ queens Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots. He is co-author of three books relating to Jack the Ripper, published by The History Press. His first non-ficion work, The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots, was also published by The History Press in January 2015; I Love the Tudors, by Pitkin Publishing, arrived in 2016. He has a semi-regular column in the journal of The Whitechapel Society and is a longstanding committee member. He was previously a freelance film and theatre reviewer for various London lifestyle magazines. From 2018 he has worked as an assistant researcher on several autism-based projects for London South Bank University. This is his fifth book for Pen and Sword, following the release of House of Tudor, Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots, Rasputin and his Russian Queen, and The Anne Boleyn Bible. His fiction work includes The Barrow Boys of Barking trilogy and the true crime series ‘Dear Boss’.