Lesley Lokko

Lesley Lokko, OBE, is a bestselling novelist and a professor of architecture. She was awarded the OBE ‘for services to architecture and education’ in the first New Year’s Honours List by King Charles III.

Lesley was born to a Scottish artist and Ghanaian surgeon and has spent most of her life travelling and working across the world. In 2021 she was awarded the RIBA Annie Spink Award for outstanding contributions in architectural education and in 2021 she was appointed curator of the Biennale Architettura 2023. She is currently director and founder of the African Futures Institute in Accra, Ghana and her 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

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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.