Sara Lodge was born and raised in Edinburgh. She is a Professor at the University of St Andrews, where she specialises in nineteenth-century literature and culture, but was seduced by her partner to live in London, so is frequently to be found on a delayed train somewhere north of York.
Sara has published four books, most recently The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (2024), which was shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award and the Wolfson Prize (2025), Britain’s biggest history prize. She enjoys making radio and writing on nature, travel, books and the arts for the London Review of Books, the Literary Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the Scotsman, among others. Her interests are unashamedly eclectic. She is currently writing a book about Britain’s tidal islands that combines nature, travel, and history.