Janet Laurence

Janet Laurence (born 1937 as Janet Duffell ), also known by her pen name Julia Lisle, is a British author and cookery writer.

Cookery writer From 1978, Laurence began to write cookery articles for Country Life and The Daily Telegraph. Eventually she became the sole author of the Telegraphs weekly 'Bon Viveur' column. She has written or co-written eight cookery books, notably books about Scandinavian cooking.

Crime fiction Laurence's first crime novel, 'A Deepe Coffyn', was published in 1989, Laurence was the 1998/1999 Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and has been Chair of a number of CWA award judging panels including in 2007 and 2008 for the CWA Ellis Peters Award for best Historical Crime Novel and in 2013 for the CWA International Award.

Other work Laurence has written three contemporary women's novels under the pen name Julia Lisle, and a book on how to write crime fiction.