ABOUT

Anna Wharton has been a print and broadcast journalist for more than thirty years. She was formerly an executive editor on a national newspaper. 

Anna’s original blend of emotional detail coupled with topical, incisive polemical essays help to weave together stories that need to be heard. As a result she has discovered authors and created books that have become Sunday Times bestsellers and critically acclaimed the world over. 

Anna’s work is rooted in amplifying women’s voices and writing books that can stimulate debate, as well as change attitudes, policies and practices, helping to build a better and more equal world. This work has earnt her a nomination for the Orwell Prize – Britain’s biggest political writing prize. 

On the Books page you will find out more about her novel, The Imposter, and the other books that she has ghosted and co-authored.

She is now focusing on her own projects and her memoir, I Made You Up Inside My Head, will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2027.

She is a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.