A very enjoyable interview about 'Five Evil Women' with the wonderful Miranda Melcher on New Books Network. You can listen to it here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-women . Why do certain women become icons of evil? My new book, Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026) is the first comparative, non-sensationalist account of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aileen Wuornos, Karl

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

Friday, 15 October 1965. Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham in Lancashire, England. On Boxing Day the previous year, Lesley Ann Downey...