Sophie Haydock

Sophie Haydock is a journalist and editor (Sunday Times, Guardian, Tatler, BBC Three). She also works as a digital editor for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and is associate director of the Word Factory short story organisation. She has written about Egon Schiele for the Royal Academy Magazine and Sotheby’s. The Flames won the 2018 Impress Prize for New Writers. In the same year, the opening sections of the novel were longlisted for the Retreat West First Chapter and shortlisted for the PENfro Book Festival’s First Chapter Competition. Her Instagram account @egonschieleswomen has an audience of 92,000 followers.

Books by Sophie Haydock

The Flames

Sophie Haydock

A passionately re-imagined historical novel, featuring four unforgettable women, each a muse to the same controversial artist, set in Vienna at the turn of the century. 'A stunning story of love, art and betrayal' RED magazine

Madame Matisse

Sophie Haydock

An ultimatum: her or me. A gunshot. A betrayal. From the author of The Flames, a passionate story set in Paris and the French Riviera, about three women whose lives are set on a collision course when they meet the enigmatic artist Henri Matisse.