Bee's books include One Woman Crime Wave (Renard, 2024), inspired by JB Priestley, and the award-winning travelogue In Search of Mary (Alma, 2015) which was a ‘biography of the year’. She co-wrote the bestseller Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad (Penguin, 2010) which was dramatised by the BBC, and was one of Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism (2013). Bee was formerly a BBC World Service journalist and travel writer. She is founder and chair of the Wollstonecraft Society, a human rights education charity, and was recently awarded an MBE for services to women's rights.