The historian and 2019 Baillie-Gifford prize winner on the charms of Lima, vintage poverty maps and her favourite London restaurant British historian Hallie Rubenhold is the author of The Five , a social history of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper, which won the 2019 Baillie Gifford prize and is out now in paperback (Black Swan, £9.99). Born in Los Angeles, she studied history in the US before attending the University of Leeds. Her 2005 book The Covent Garden Ladies , about a notorious guidebook to Georgian prostitutes, inspired the TV series Harlots , while her next book, The Scandalous Lady W , was adapted into a BBC drama. Rubenhold lives in London with her husband. Continue reading...