Viper Wine

Hermione Eyre is a writer and journalist whose first novel, Viper Wine, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2014 and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. As a journalist, her interviewees include actors Carey Mulligan, Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson, and artists Howard Hodgkin, Grayson Perry and Gilbert and George. She once defended Joanna Lumley and Jonathan Miller from a gunman during an interview. For seven years she was a staff writer on the Independent on Sunday. She is now freelance, contributing to publications including The Times, Independent, Financial Times, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Christie's Magazine, and the London Evening Standard Magazine, where she is Contributing Editor. In 2005 she co-wrote The Dictionary of National Celebrity with the legendary author William Donaldson.