Welcome to the website of Philip Eade, journalist and author of Sylvia Queen of the Headhunters, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 2007 and now out in paperback.

'A dazzling debut . . . . I could not recommend it more highly as the perfect summer holiday read' Hugh Massingberd, Country Life

‘An exceptional life, one to which Eade does rich justice’
Miranda Seymour, Mail on Sunday

‘Jaw-dropping . . . If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven’t yet met Sylvia and the Brookes’  The Times

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