William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times best known for exposing a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria. Accused of being a CIA spy by the Nigerian government, he was arrested, interrogated, and summarily deported. Alarmed by real world horrors, Keeling turned to fiction with The Gay Street Chronicles series of satirical novels set in Regency Bath in the 1830s.
Praise for The Gay Street Chronicles: “Funny, clever, silly in the right way, and strangely touching. I love the alt-Regency Bath-universe that Keeling has built” – Jeanette Winterson; “Genius. Incisive, outlandish and hilarious … there’s a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles” – Matthew Parris; “A real romp of a book – full of surprises!” – Alexander McCall Smith.
William lives and writes in Bath, England. Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, the first of The Gay Street Chronicles, will be published in March, 2022.
