Siân Busby Books in Order

Siân Busby investigates the life of Sarah Jacob, a Welsh child whose family claimed she survived without food or drink. Her rise to celebrity and a fatal medical vigil reveal tensions between religious belief, scientific inquiry, and the welfare of a child.

This children's history recounts the life of Boudicca, the Iceni queen who led a revolt against Roman occupation. It also follows her later reputation, considering how the rebellion's leader became a lasting cultural figure in Britain.

In austerity-stricken London in 1946, schoolboys discover a married woman's body on a bomb site. Detective Jim Cooper investigates beyond assumptions of sexual assault, uncovering the hidden life beneath her outwardly respectable home and marriage.

Siân Busby investigates a tragedy in her family: her great-grandmother Beth killed her newborn twins in 1919 and was sent to Broadmoor. Reconstructing the case, she confronts the disturbing history behind a long-shadowed family memory.

Amid the political and social unrest of England in 1843, Daniel McNaughten goes on trial. His case brings questions about individual sanity and the stability of the wider society into conflict, threatening established assumptions about order and responsibility.