On 1 March 2026, my new book will be published. It is called: Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion Books). So, I have decided to re-post a few talks I gave on 'evil women'. These are some of the women who did not make it into the book version. The woman for today is Eve. According to Jewish and Christian Creation myth, Eve introduced evil into Paradise, leading to the banishment of humanity (and, indeed, all life) from the Garden of Eden. There

My new book will be published on 1 March 2026, with the amazing publisher, Reaktion Books. Five 'evil' women.... Myra Hindley, Aileen Wuornos, Rosemary West, Karla Homolka, and Karla Faye Tucker. The book is a non-sensationalist history of five women who have been called 'icons of evil'. What do we mean when we label a person 'evil'? How else might we understand their acts of extreme cruelty? Why should we bother thinking about them at all? The central question I have struggl