Ruth Kelly

Ruth Kelly

Book credits:

Paul & Lisa Knights / Tell No-One (Penguin 2012)

Tina Renton / You Can't Hide: How I Bought My Rapist Stepfather to Justice (Simon & Schuster 2013)

Areas of specialism: celebrity, real life stories (particularly gritty stories and misery memoir), true crime. Ruth combines a keen journalistic nose with an exceptional ability to empathise with her subjects.

Ruth Kelly has had ten years’ experience in print journalism and television. She has a background in newspapers, having trained as a news reporter and then gone on to freelance for the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. Ruth has had a keen news sense from the outset, having brought in the Splash for the Mirror on her second day on the job. Her magazine experience includes covering as news features editor for Grazia, deputy features editor for Look magazine and helping More magazine relaunch, as features editor. She has written countless in-depth first person features for Fabulous, Glamour, Grazia, Femail, More, Cosmo, Easy Living, Femail, Sun features, Take-a-Break, Bella and Best as well as breaking many exclusives, including getting the first magazine interview with Kate McCann.

One of Ruth's greatest strengths is her ability to get people to trust her and thus tell her their life story, proven by the number of exclusives she has snared. Ruth is particularly experienced in writing tragic stories, particularly female ones: some of her most heart wrenching and exclusive interviews involve mothers who have lost their daughters. Examples of her interviews include:

· Joanne Coombs, whose daughter Natasha went missing on the train from Essex. She tragically committed suicide after finding out her daughter was dead.

·  Mother Ana Escobar whose baby daughter was snatched at gun point to be trafficked to the US.

· Elif Anil who watched her brother murdered for a chocolate bar.

· Teenagers Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless, ten years after they were abducted by paedophile Alan Hopkinson. Ruth's feature was turned into a Dispatches documentary for Channel Four.

· Natalie Evans after she lost her four year battle to save her frozen embryos, her last chance to have children.

· The brother of Banaz Mahmod - the UK’s biggest ‘Honour Killing’ story.