Philip Eade read History at Bristol University. After a year in Spain and a brief career as a criminal barrister, he took up journalism and he has since written for the Daily Telegraph and a range of magazines. His first book, ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters’ was published in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim.

Praise for 'Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters' '[Philip Eade] is a natural writer: percipient, sympathetic, amusing!Those with an interest in the adventures of British eccentrics during the last decades of the Empire will have their knowledge agreeably enriched; and those who have never heard of Sylvia Brooke are in for a treat.' Michael Holroyd 'An enthralling study of an extraordinary woman. Philip Eade's book reads like a thriller; set in a semi-mythical landscape of the White Rajah's Sarawak, it is wonderfully written and studded thickly with jewels of intrigue, gossip and politics.' Joanna Lumley 'Juicily entertaining!an exceptional life, one to which Eade does rich justice.' Miranda Seymour, Mail on Sunday 'Philip Eade is eminently readable, with a detective's pertinacity at finding clues to forgotten secrets and a raconteur's gift for sustaining narrative interest!His own high spirits and cheerful intelligence turn [this] story into a rollicking good read.' Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday Telegraph 'Jaw-dropping!If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't met Sylvia and the Brookes.' The Times 'A thorough, fascinating and rather giddying book!sensational.' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times

Philip Eade read History at Bristol University. After a year in Spain and a brief career as a criminal barrister, he took up journalism and he has since written for the Daily Telegraph and a range of magazines. His first book, ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters’ was published in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim.

Praise for 'Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters' '[Philip Eade] is a natural writer: percipient, sympathetic, amusing!Those with an interest in the adventures of British eccentrics during the last decades of the Empire will have their knowledge agreeably enriched; and those who have never heard of Sylvia Brooke are in for a treat.' Michael Holroyd 'An enthralling study of an extraordinary woman. Philip Eade's book reads like a thriller; set in a semi-mythical landscape of the White Rajah's Sarawak, it is wonderfully written and studded thickly with jewels of intrigue, gossip and politics.' Joanna Lumley 'Juicily entertaining!an exceptional life, one to which Eade does rich justice.' Miranda Seymour, Mail on Sunday 'Philip Eade is eminently readable, with a detective's pertinacity at finding clues to forgotten secrets and a raconteur's gift for sustaining narrative interest!His own high spirits and cheerful intelligence turn [this] story into a rollicking good read.' Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday Telegraph 'Jaw-dropping!If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't met Sylvia and the Brookes.' The Times 'A thorough, fascinating and rather giddying book!sensational.' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times

Philip Eade read History at Bristol University. After a year in Spain and a brief career as a criminal barrister, he took up journalism and he has since written for the Daily Telegraph and a range of magazines. His first book, ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters’ was published in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim.

Praise for 'Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters' '[Philip Eade] is a natural writer: percipient, sympathetic, amusing!Those with an interest in the adventures of British eccentrics during the last decades of the Empire will have their knowledge agreeably enriched; and those who have never heard of Sylvia Brooke are in for a treat.' Michael Holroyd 'An enthralling study of an extraordinary woman. Philip Eade's book reads like a thriller; set in a semi-mythical landscape of the White Rajah's Sarawak, it is wonderfully written and studded thickly with jewels of intrigue, gossip and politics.' Joanna Lumley 'Juicily entertaining!an exceptional life, one to which Eade does rich justice.' Miranda Seymour, Mail on Sunday 'Philip Eade is eminently readable, with a detective's pertinacity at finding clues to forgotten secrets and a raconteur's gift for sustaining narrative interest!His own high spirits and cheerful intelligence turn [this] story into a rollicking good read.' Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday Telegraph 'Jaw-dropping!If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't met Sylvia and the Brookes.' The Times 'A thorough, fascinating and rather giddying book!sensational.' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times