Judith Cook (9 July 1933 – 12 May 2004) was an anti-nuclear campaigner, historical novelist, journalist and lecturer in theatre at the
University of Exeter. She wrote several mysteries based on the casebooks of Dr
Simon Forman, an
Elizabethan
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doctor and
astrologer
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.
Through the columns of ''
The Guardian''s
women's page, edited by
Mary Stott, she founded the anti-nuclear organisation Voice of Women after the
Cuban Missile Crisis
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of 1962, at a time when the world seemed on the verge of nuclear war.
Bibliography
Fiction
Casebook of Dr Simon Forman
#''Death Of A Lady's Maid'' (1997)
#''Murder at the Rose'' (1998)
#''Blood on the Borders'' (1999)
#''Kill The Witch'' (1999)
#''School of the Night'' (2000)
John Latimer
*''Dead Ringer'' (2003)
*''Worm in the Bud'' (2003)
*''Keeper's Gold'' (2004)
Other novels
*''The Waste Remains'' (1984)
*''The Slicing Edge of Death'' (1993)
Non-fiction
*''Directors' Theatre: Sixteen Leading Theatre Directors on the State of Theatre in Britain Today'' (1974)
*''National Theatre'' (1976)
*''Cornish Walks and Legends'' (1979)
*''Women in Shakespeare'' (1980)
*''Apprentices of Freedom'' (1981)
*''Portrait of a Poison: The
2,4,5-T Story'' (1982)
*''Shakespeare's Players'' (1983)
*''When I Set Out for Lyonesse: Cornish Walks and Legends'' (1984)
*''Close to the Earth: Living Social History of the British Isles'' (1984)
*''Who Killed
Hilda Murrell
Hilda Murrell (3 February 1906 – on or before 24 March 1984) was a British rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. She was abducted and found murdered five miles from her home in Shropshire ...
?'' (1985)
*''Price of Freedom'' (1986)
*''At the Sign of the Swan: Introduction to Shakespeare's Contemporaries'' (1986)
*''Red Alert: Worldwide Dangers of Nuclear Power'' (1986)
*''Backstage'' (1987)
*''Whose Health Is It Anyway?'' (1987)
*''An Accident Waiting to Happen'' (1989)
*''Dirty Water'' (1989)
*''Daphne: Portrait of
Daphne Du Maurier'' (1992)
*''To Brave Every Danger: The Epic Life of
Mary Bryant
Mary Bryant (1765 – after 1794) was a Cornish convict sent to Australia. She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling Australian penal colony.
Early life
Bryant was born Mary Broad (referred to as Mary Braund at the E ...
of Fowey'' (1994)
*''Unlawful Killing: Murder of
Hilda Murrell
Hilda Murrell (3 February 1906 – on or before 24 March 1984) was a British rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. She was abducted and found murdered five miles from her home in Shropshire ...
'' (1994)
*''Sleaze File...: and How to Clean Up British Politics'' (1995)
*''The Golden Age of the English Theatre'' (1996)
*''Singing from the Walls: The Life and Art of
Elizabeth Forbes'' (2000) (with Melissa Hardie and
Christiana Payne)
*''Dr
Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician'' (2001)
*''The Year of the Pyres:
The 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic'' (2001)
*''
Gill Watkiss - Paintings 1974-2002'' (2002)
*''Pirate Queen: The Life of
Grace O'Malley
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In Irish folklore she is commonly k ...
1530-1603'' (2003)
*''Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England'' (2005)
*"Priestley" Biography of
J B Priestley (1997)
External links
Obituaryfrom ''
The Guardian''
Judith Cook at Fantastic Fiction
1933 births
2004 deaths
Academics of the University of Exeter
English historical novelists
People educated at James Allen's Girls' School
English women novelists
20th-century English novelists
20th-century English women writers
Women historical novelists
Women's page journalists
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