Lesley Lokko

Lesley Lokko, OBE, is a bestselling novelist and award-winning professor of architecture. She was born to a Scottish artist and Ghanian surgeon and has worked on three continents.

Lesley is the first British-African woman to be appointed curator of the prestigious Biennale Architettura, and the first to be awarded a RIBA Gold Medal.

She was awarded the OBE ‘for services to architecture and education’ in the first New Year’s Honours List by King Charles III.

Lesley’s novels are published and loved across the globe, from Italy to South Africa; Poland to Australia.

LESLEY’S BOOKS

Soul Sisters, Pan Macmillan, 2021; The Last Debutante, Orion, 2016; In Love and War, Orion, 2014; Little White Lies, Orion, 2013; An Absolute Deception, Orion, 2012; A Private Affair, Orion, 2011; One Secret Summer, Orion, 2010; Rich Girl, Poor Girl, Orion 2009; Bitter Chocolate, Orion, 2008; Saffron Skies, Orion, 2005; Sundowners, Orion, 2004.

REVIEWERS

“Wonderfully evoked…the characters skilfully drawn.”

Daily Mail

"Rich, poignant…simmers with the potent consequences of race, power, and love."

Woman’s Own

"A brilliant read."

Bella

Latest Book

THE WRITER WHO MOST INSPIRED LESLEY

Nadine Gordimer

HOW LESLEY BECAME KATE’S CLIENT

We met at a restaurant in Covent Garden and signed on the spot!

KATE ABOUT LESLEY

Lesley is a hugely gifted and versatile storyteller, who also speaks several languages and is very knowledgeable about art, architecture and the cultures of world. Her thirst for travel; her informed fascination for contemporary history, politics and race; her intelligence and her wicked sense of humour, all inform her brilliant novels.